Dore Alley Preview: Top Leather Parties Return, But Hard Limits Will Apply
The Dore Alley scene will switch to a “Mask mandatory, pants optional” Folsom Street Market (where you can get vaccinated!), but plenty of other leather parties are bearing down this weekend, too.
There’s a new holy trinity of late summer San Francisco leather events, but things are obviously bound to look different under COVID-19. In previous years, the last weekend in July hosted the Dore Alley Fair a.k.a. Up Your Alley Fair, a smaller, gayer, more ass-play-friendly warmup to Folsom Street Fair. This year, a scaled-down Folsom Street Fair (Sept. 26) will return to with its original name Megahood, a new event called Bearrison Street Fair will doff shirts on October 23, and this Sunday marks the sort-of in-person return of a sort-of Dore Alley Fair, anchored by an open-air shopping bazaar called Folsom Street Market (11 a.m. - 6 p.m.).