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This month’s newsletter includes:
Wednesday, May 15, 6 to 8 pm
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- Join us for Play on the Plaza every second Saturday of the month through October!
- Saturday May 11 – noon to 5 pm
- At Eagle Plaza, 12th Street, between Folsom and Harrison
- A free community event that’s designed to ignite some spark in your life!
- Socialize with fellow kinksters.
- Each month a different BDSM, Kink or LGBTQ group hosts IMPACT on Eagle Plaza!
- Plus Kink Artist / Maker Mart, Entertainment, Gear Swap, and more!
- For May, our play theme is Flogging and Flagging!
- Flogging hosted by Nunca Sola, Ms. SF Eagle Leather
- Impact Play Area for all to use!
- Flagging hosted by Liam Ocean from Flagging in the Park
- Bring your flags and join the fun (some loaner flags available)!
- Instruction available, all skill levels welcome!
- Dance to the beats of our amazing DJ Paul Goodyear!
- Also happening:
- Vote for the Leather Contingent Marshals for the Pride Parade.
- Vote at our info table, noon and 4 pm
- Nominees list and more info on Leather Contingent Facebook page.
- Free Admission! (Donations welcome!)
- Wear your Gear! (Nudity is welcome. Alas, sexplay is not.)
- Gear Swap!
- Buy, sell or consign kink / leather / fetish gear!:
- Used gear at great prices
- Raise some cash by cleaning out your closet!
- Gear Swap information
- Kink / Fetish Vendors!
- Kink / Fetish Vendor Booths are available for June through October
- Our thanks to the SF Office of Economic and Workforce Development, SF New Deal, and SF Planning for funding the events, and to our Community Partner, the Service Pups of San Francisco!
- Coming in June:
- Impact Play hosted by The Exiles!
- DJ: Del (4)
- Celebrate our sixth anniversary!
- Saturday, June 15, noon to 3 pm
- In Ringold Alley!
- The Brazen Runway Competition Returns!
- Impact play area, entertainers, demos, DJ, Free admission!
- Save the date, and watch for more details, coming soon.
- Thanks to:
- The nominees!
- Everyone who voted!
- Everyone who made the Ceremony such fun!
- The Golden Dildeaux Awards Ceremony:
- The awards raised $14,877 to help keep SOMA Kinky and Queer!
- Visit the Golden Dildeaux Awards website for history and more info
- Nominations for the 2025 Awards will open next March!
- Join the Cultural District;
- Give yourself a voice on our Cultural District's priorities and programs
- Become a member today!
- We are offering Overdose Prevention Training to the piublic in partnership with Kochina Rude and Oasis
- Wednesday, May 22, 6 pm, at Oasis, 298 11th Street
- The training is free and each participant will receive two Narcan kits and fentanyl test strips at no cost.
- Food and entertainment provided.
- Trainings for employees of District bars and clubs are also being scheduled.
- Trainings are made possible by a generous grant from Success Centers.
- The SOMA WEST Community Benefit District invites you to their monthly Neighborhood Happy Hour!
- 6:00pm-8:00pm
- Thursday, May 16 2024
- at SOMArts, 934 Brannan St
- Meet your neighbors! The first round is on them!
- We were proud to have been a Co-Presenting Partner for the SF Urban Film Fest's program "Queer Third Spaces: Resurgence and Resilience".
- Held on April 21, at the resilient and resurgent STUD (now open at 1123 Folsom Street).
- Congratulations to Tina V. Aguirre for their short film and to our sibling presentation partner Castro LGBTQ Cultural District.
- Thanks to Fay Darmawi, Robin Abad Ocubillo, the rest of the SFUFF team, as well as all the folks at The STUD. It was great to see your new home!
- Call for Artists!
- The 11th and Natoma Park will feature artist-designed perimeter fence panels.
- The San Francisco Arts Commission invites artists and artist teams to submit their qualifications.
- This work will be part of a permanent public artwork.
- This is the park that may be named after leather woman and healer Rachele Sullivan.
- Thank you all for voting for Rachele in the recent Survey.
- The results of the survey were a resounding majority for Rachele.
- We await a final naming decision from the City's Recreation and Parks Department.
- This is a great opportunity for one of our community's artists to have a permanent work on public display.
- The qualifications submission deadline has been extended to May 24, 2024
- More info available from the SF Arts Commission.
- Three seats on our Board of Directors are up for election each year.
- This year, online elections will be held from August 14 to19.
- You must be a voting member of the District by May 21, 2024 to be eligible to vote.
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- Reasons to join!
- Membership is $15 (dues waiver available for financial hardship).
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- Your donation helps keep our kinky places and spaces in SOMA, and supports community events, performances and public art.
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May is National Masturbation Month. Enjoy yourself!
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LEATHER & LGBTQ CULTURAL DISTRICT
584 Castro Street #140
San Francisco, CA 94114
United States
415-237-3237
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