Source: KTVU.com.
USA – SAN FRANCISCO – Angel Adeyoha likes to have a job to do when he’s at the Folsom Street Fair.
“I really like to have a job at the event.” He says it helps him feel grounded. Now in its 40th year, the world-famous BDSM, kink, leather and fetish gear event has always allowed for the open expression of sexual freedom.
Adeyoha found this scene in the early nineties, having come up with the leather dyke scene back then. This was pre-internet and pre-smartphone. He says he would find out about kink and fetish parties by looking at the back of alt-weekly newspapers and that’s how he found his community of “hot people.”
Now he’s the executive director of Folsom Street, which produces the South of Market Folsom Street Fair, and also runs the fetish gear-adjacent ‘Up Your Alley’ held annually in July.
He says at his first Folsom Street Fair in 1993, he gravitated to the strong sense of volunteerism. “You don’t see that kind of support from larger society.”
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