Dore Alley

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What to do, all summer long

No More Public Sex at Up Your Alley Fair

You were expecting, perhaps, a tea party?Bad news for leather folks who wanted to get a blow job at this year's Up Your Alley Fair: The event organizers and the police are teaming up to stamp your public lovin' out.A controversy has been simmering in the gay press and the city's leather community ... More >>

No boners allowed at this year's Up Your Alley fetish fair

You were expecting, perhaps, a tea party?Bad news for leather folks who wanted to get a blow job at this year's Up Your Alley Fair: The event organizers and the police are teaming up to stamp your public lovin' out.A controversy has been simmering in the gay press and the city's leather community ... More >>

They Know They Can Do It

You were expecting, perhaps, a tea party?Bad news for leather folks who wanted to get a blow job at this year's Up Your Alley Fair: The event organizers and the police are teaming up to stamp your public lovin' out.A controversy has been simmering in the gay press and the city's leather community ... More >>

Only In SF: Folsom Street Fair, Open-Air Sex Fest, Deemed Too Mainstream

​Two weekends ago, throngs descended on Folsom Street for the world's biggest and most famous leather festival. No, not a trunk show of fine riding boots or Italian aviator jackets. As any true San Franciscan knows, "leather" refers to bondage, S&M, fetish gear and the people who get off on it ... More >>

Barfing in Dolores Park: Protesters to Stage Puke-In

This makes me want to barf​So you think you can't stomach what happens at San Francisco's Dore Alley fair, but how about a massive puke fest in Dolores Park? Keep reading. To show the city how they really feel about commercializing S.F. parks, a group of San Franciscans is planning a puke-in at Do ... More >>

S.F. Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Generate Only 11 Complaints Over Five Years

That all you got?​Pot clubs. They're boring. You go in, you buy some pot, you leave. For all the clamor with which a new medical cannabis dispensary's opening receives from jumpy John Q Public, with a few notable exceptions, most we see these days resemble dentists' offices, not dens of iniquity ( ... More >>