The Up Your Alley fetish and kink street fair returned in all its glory July 31 in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. After being sidelined the past two summers due to the COVID pandemic, which is ongoing, this year's attendees also had to confront the monkeypox outbreak, which has mainly affected men who have sex with men in the Bay Area. Public health staffers were on site with information about both viruses, and people managed to have a good time, as this rope suspension demonstration created by Twisted Windows shows. Next up on the kink and leather calendar will be the return of the Folsom Street Fair September 25.
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