Cuddling on the
Wild Side

Outside my hotel on Market St. Looks like I'm in the right area.

What do you do when there are thousands of hot leather boys in one city? Well, if you’re me, you try to meet as many as you can. Now you’re probably thinking I slept with many of them, and that would have been an accurate assumption a couple months ago, but now I have a monogamous boyfriend. And there were many hot and fun guys there, but I was indeed good. It doesn’t mean I didn’t have a great time, I did. I met up with many of my real friends, cyber friends (including Moby, Adam and Frank - my other friends don’t have blogs), and made some new friends too. I did some tourist things, quite a bit of shopping including stops at Mr S Leather and Chaps, made it to the gym and some parties.

Let me just say I love public transportation in SF. It makes of super easy to get around. I stayed at Hotel Whitcomb on Market and 8th with a train stop right outside the front door. Made it easy to hop on the Muni and go to the Castro or just walk down to the Folsom Street area.

Out at Folsom with one of my friends from Dallas

The whole weekend was fantastic. The main things I went to was the Big Muscle party, the Folsom Street Fair and the Real Bad party. It was a toss up between the Fair and the Big Muscle party as to which was the best. There were tons of hot guys at the Big Muscle party and it was really easy to talk and meet guys there, just wish the space was a little bigger. The Fair was awesome because I ran into many friends and got to see many different fetishes. I still didn’t see much sex this year. The Real Bad party is really just a circuit party in every sense from what I’ve seen. I haven’t been to one of the big ones, but this seemed close. I don’t think I’d go to Real Bad again unless it was with friends. Too much dancing and no real ability to talk to people.

I’ll return to Folsom sometime in the next couple years, but I’ll use the money to go somewhere else next year.

It’s just a little over a week until Folsom this year and I’m planning on being there, although I haven’t made any plans yet (later today hopefully). Here’s a little blurb from their website that explain what Folsom is for anyone that may not know:

In 2008 the world’s largest leather event, the Folsom Street Fair^tm, will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Sunday, September 28, 2008 from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

The Folsom Street Fair is a true San Francisco original. With over 400,000 people in attendance covering 13 city blocks, the Fair is the largest leather/fetish event in the world and the third largest, single-day outdoor event in California. Folsom Street Events is thrilled to celebrate the historic 25th Folsom Street Fair with style and a week’s worth of truly outstanding events and programs over the course of San Francisco Leather Week.

Last year in 2007 was my first time attending and it was my first big leather event and 2nd big gay event outside of Minnesota. Folsom 2007 met many of my expectations, but many fell very far short. My first impression of the gay mecca was not the transcendant and surreal experience I expected. Instead it was fast-paced and self-centered. I had talked with a couple guys online before going that happened to be on my connecting flight to SF. These guys ended up becoming my roommates here in Texas, and that was a very good thing. The 3 of us attended the Big Muscle Meet and Greet. It was awesome seeing so many big hot muscle guys there.

One of the hotties at Folsom 2007. If you look closely, he shaved in some abs.

We also went to the Magnitude party on Saturday night. It’s a bunch of muscle and other leather boys gathered all together. Which sounds cool, until you realize that they are all tweaked out and it was 500 billion degrees in the place. Dungeon Beds provided about 5 beds that anyone could use for a variety of things from fucking to fisting to sucking. I may have even participated and let a guy suck my cock. The fisting and fucking was very hot to watch. I don’t plan to go back to Magnitude anytime soon.

Sunday was the actual Street Fair which was pretty good, but didn’t quite live up to my expectations. Of course you had the naked people, and some jacking off, but I didn’t see any sex happening. There were also many more straight people there than I expected.

Even though last year wasn’t quite what I expected, it was also my introduction to the global leather community. I’m going back this year with different expectations and different plans. I’m planning to be there Friday Sept 26th and will be leave Tuesday Sept 30th. I’m hoping to make a lot of friends, buy some toys, and come back with some stories. Let me know if you’re going to be in the area.