November 14, 2007 | Sex & Society

Folsom Street Events gives back

Say what you will about the Folsom Street Fair, it is one of four big fundraising events put on in the San Francisco area each year. And though it is better known for lots of leather, naked men and public displays of sexuality, it provides much needed money to local charities like AIDS Emergency Fund, Healing Waters, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, STOP AIDS Project and Tenderloin Health.

Folsom Street Events, which exists to "create volunteer-driven leather events that provide the adult alternative lifestyle community with safe venues for self-expression while emphasizing freedom, fun, frolic and fetish", also organizes Bay of Pigs, Up Your Alley, and Magnitude in addition to Folsom Street Fair. This year they raised a record breaking $350,066 for charity.

"We are deeply humbled by this philanthropic achievement," said Andy Copper, president of the organization's board of directors. "We are so very grateful to our sponsors, beneficiaries, beverage partners and the leather/fetish community for its growing, generous support. This is absolutely a record-breaking year, and we are already working diligently on our upcoming 25th Folsom Street Fair in 2008."

We always said assless chaps and cockrings could help make this world a better place!