ABOUT FOLSOM STREET

Folsom Street is a 501(c)3 non-profit arts and culture organization that produces iconic events that benefit our whole community. We feature amazing artists, musicians, DJs, dancers, performers and more in San Francisco. Our events center emerging and marginalized artists and create spaces and audiences for unique art and performance. We are supported by San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the Horizons Foundation, the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and PATRONS LIKE YOU!

OUR MISSION

Folsom Street cultivates a safe, open, and inclusive environment for the kink, leather, and alternative sexuality communities while centering equity for BIPOC and LGBTQA2I+ people. We are rooted historically in the fight against gentrification and displacement here in San Francisco, on unceded Ohlone land, and worldwide. We unite, strengthen, and affirm the community through support, resources, education, advocacy, visibility, and celebration. We are dedicated to sexual liberation and the human right to pleasure as a crucial part of the liberation movement.

Folsom Street is an explicitly anti-racist organization and we are committed to decolonizing our practices. We welcome feedback and guidance from our communities. 

Since 1984, Folsom Street has given over $7 million dollars in proceeds to nonprofit LGBTQ2S+ centered organizations.