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The City By the Bay is eclectic, to say the least and is home and host to a vast array of individuality. This is a guide to San Francisoc that takes you off the beaten tourist path. The collections here showcase recommended public events of a more alternative nature than most. Remember to always dress for weather a bit cooler than you expect, and wear fabulous but comfortable shoes!

Year-Round

  • City By The Bay - San Francisco Travel Guide - this is a topical month-by-month guide to events and festivals
  • Bondage A Go-Go - every Wednesday night at the Glas Kat
    • I photographed club events at Bondage A Go Go for many years. Take a look at some of my favorite moments
  • DeYoung Museum - this newly remodeled museum offerings a spectacular new tower view of San Francisco and an Andy Goldsworthy original commision in the foyer. Also pictures of the Conservatory of Flowers and the Rose Garden.
  • Japanese Tea Garden - This wonderful tea garden resides in Golden Gate Park and features installations and elements that go back to the last 1800s. Plus, bits of the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha" were filmed here.

February

  • Panthea Con - held annually over President's Day weekend in San Jose, this gathering is the largest all pagan convention on the West Coast.

April

  • Saint Stupid's Parade - held annually on April 1st at noon, this parade groups up down at the Embarcadero and maches around the Financial District - this gallery shows pictures from the 2002 - 2005 stagings of the parade.
  • Easter Indulgence in the Park - Highlights from Easter Sunday in Dolores Park with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

June

July

  • Up Your Alley/Dore Alley Street Fair 2002 - the first of SF's two big leather pride fairs. This one averages around 10,000 - 12.000 people, mostly leather men, and takes place on the last Sunday in July on Dore Alley, between Howard and Folsom St.

September

  • San Francisco Pagan Pride -pictures from the first ever Pagan Pride Day, held Sept 14, 2002 in Golden Gate Park
  • Folsom Street Fair - this leather pride event is both the mother and father of all leather street fairs. On hot years this one can run as large as a few hundred thousand people, being held annually on the last Sunday in September....

August

ONCE UPON A TIME...

Annie Sprinkle - I have had the good fortune to see Ms. Sprinkle's unique brand of one-woman show on several occasions, along with a benefit held when her Sausalito houseboat burned down.

Lord of the Rings-theme Picnic and Lembas Bake-Off - one of those unique fandom moments, from Stern Grove, 2002
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