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'Raw! Uncut! Video!' Palm Drive's pioneering porn

August 16, 2022 | by David-Elijah Nahmod

For twelve years beginning in 1985, Palm Drive Video produced hundreds of video scenes featuring a variety of men engaging in a wide array of fetishized sex. The new documentary shares the kinky tale.

News Briefs: B.A.R.'s Besties voting is now underway

by Cynthia Laird
Aug 9, 2022

Voting is open for the Bay Area Reporter's readers' poll known as the Besties.

Woof! Up Your Alley Street Fair 2022

by photo by Steven Underhill
Aug 2, 2022

Fetish fashion flourished at the return of the Up Your Alley Street Fair in South of Market on July 31, where thousands showed off their leather, rubber, furry and kinky gear, while others in more casual attire merely looked on in amusement.

Davey Davis' 'X' - kink at the end of the world

by Jim Piechota
Jul 26, 2022

"How bad could a waterboarding really be if you could get up and walk away afterward?" So posits the spicy protagonist of multi-talented author Davey Davis' kinky dystopian new novel "X".

Puttin' a polish on leather alley

by BAR staff
Jun 22, 2022

People stopped by Ringold Alley in San Francisco's South of Market district Saturday, June 18, to celebrate the revival of the leather space.

Jack Fritscher's 'Profiles in Gay Courage'

by Hank Trout
May 31, 2022

Jack Fritscher's newest book, "Profiles in Gay Courage: Leatherfolk, Arts, and Ideas, Essays and Interviews," is an illustrated collection of thirteen essays celebrating "authentic leatherfolk founders, icons, and superstars" in our recent history.

Tax status leads to scrutiny of leather nonprofit

by Eric Burkett
May 4, 2022

The San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance may not have had its financial house in order when it served as fiscal sponsor for the successful Queer Nightlife Fund that helped LGBTQs who lost their jobs during the COVID pandemic.

50 years in 50 weeks; 2013's heroic hunks

by Jim Provenzano
Jan 27, 2022

This week, we're showcasing two admirable men in very different community subcultures, because we can. Filmmaker James Broughton and leatherman Andy Cross were featured in our June 13, 2013 issue, and both share a connection to gay erotic liberation.

Megahood 2021 sizzled on Folsom

by Steven Underhill
Sep 27, 2021

Health precautions included some changes to the traditions of the annual Folsom Street Fair, renamed Megahood 2021 to honor its original first iteration in 1984.

Erotic Avenue: Mark I. Chester's 'Street Sex Photos'

by Jim Provenzano
Sep 21, 2021

For anyone who misses having sex in a back alley, parking lot, or atop a bulldozer, the new hardcover book of photos by veteran photographer Mark I. Chester makes a perfect gift for Folsom time.

'Bloodsisters' - groundbreaking lesbian BDSM video re-released

by David-Elijah Nahmod
Sep 21, 2021

Originally released in 1995, Michelle Handelman's documentary 'Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism' educates and enlightens while preserving the history of San Francisco's lesbian BDSM community.

Larry Townsend: celebrating the man behind 'The Leatherman's Handbook'

by Michael Flanagan
Sep 21, 2021

Being Folsom Week, we dive into the early roots of leather culture, specifically in California. 'The Life and Times of Larry Townsend: Saluting the 50th Anniversary of The Leatherman's Handbook,' by Jack Fritscher, is a festive romp.

Fifth B.A.R. Talks panel, Living in Leather, features community leaders

by Jim Provenzano
Aug 27, 2021

The Sept. 2 oniline B.A.R. Talk will be a conversation with Race Bannon, Scott Brogan, Gayle Rubin, Rich Stadtmiller and Graylin Thornton, who each have a longtime connection to the leather/kink community.

50 Years in 50 Weeks: Rex's rare 1991 interview

by Jim Provenzano
Aug 26, 2021

Let's zoom in, dot by dot, to a rare January 3 interview with Rex, whose erotic images might have answered the question, 'What if Georges Seurat was a late-20th-century South of Market leather man?'

San Francisco LeatherWalk to return, as city plans leather elements along Folsom Street

by Matthew S. Bajko
Jul 19, 2021

The San Francisco LeatherWalk will return this fall after being on hiatus for several years. The event, with a new route, will help to kick off Leather Week in late September.

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'Raw! Uncut! Video!' Palm Drive's pioneering porn

News Briefs: B.A.R.'s Besties voting is now underway

Woof! Up Your Alley Street Fair 2022

Davey Davis' 'X' - kink at the end of the world

Puttin' a polish on leather alley

Jack Fritscher's 'Profiles in Gay Courage'

Tax status leads to scrutiny of leather nonprofit

50 years in 50 weeks; 2013's heroic hunks

Megahood 2021 sizzled on Folsom

Erotic Avenue: Mark I. Chester's 'Street Sex Photos'

'Bloodsisters' - groundbreaking lesbian BDSM video re-released

Larry Townsend: celebrating the man behind 'The Leatherman's Handbook'

Fifth B.A.R. Talks panel, Living in Leather, features community leaders

50 Years in 50 Weeks: Rex's rare 1991 interview

San Francisco LeatherWalk to return, as city plans leather elements along Folsom Street

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