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The Secret Origin of Folsom Street Fair Nobody Talks About
Stay Connected: https://thisweekinqueerhistory.com/subscribe In 1984, a Filipino housing activist and a lesbian labor organizer threw a block party on six blocks of industrial asphalt in San Francisco and called it "Megahood." They weren't trying to start an institution, they were trying to save one. Forty-two years later, that party draws up to 400,000 people and has donated over seven million dollars to charity. This is the origin story of Folsom Street Fair: part neighborhood fight, part AIDS-era survival, part queer joy that refused to be gentrified out of existence. Become a Sustaining Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCHtOW-DcyK8ydsBeSIV2ZA/join Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinqueerhistory My Queer Birthday: https://myqueerbirthday.com/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twiqh.bsky.social TWiQH Home: https://thisweekinqueerhistory.com/ REFERENCES 1. https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Folsom_Street_Fair 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_Street_Fair 3. https://www.sfgate.com/local-donotuse/article/Folson-Street-Fair-Gay-leather-prom-history-SoMa-13248943.php 4. https://www.folsomstreetevents.org/heritage/ 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_South_of_Market_Leather_History_Alley 6. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_fyW4mdK_MCCXvhzKZhxBYRoFhOkZ2jP/view
