Here’s something to cure those Monday morning blues: A Bob Fosse meets Tom of Finland dance number with a healthy does of S&M.
Related: Behind The Harness: The Extraordinary History Of The Folsom Street Fair
Which can really only mean one thing. Folsom Street Fair approaches, so buckle those harnesses and let go of your inhibitions.
Or, just enjoy this video released today (NSFW):
How about we take this to the next level?
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SeeingAll
That video is supposed to be making fun of the Folsom Street Fair, right ?
Clark35
LMAO!!!!!!! Too funny, Folsom St. Fair, Dore Alley, etc. have been total jokes for decades since the 80s.
Ron Loftus
you must be joking
Geo Kas
Uh?
MarionPaige
looks like they opted for a promotion that was (some what) entertaining; rather than their usual attempts at shock. A bow to their corporate sponsors?
Brian Kelly-Ried
Maybe at bearacuda? 😉
Dakotahgeo
I believe all videos have been pulled or shuttered. None of them are playing.
ggreen
San Francisco has become a mecca for not just techies but for very bad awful drag. The bad dragsters are fighting and feuding to be the most awful (what ever that means.
jwtraveler
@Clark35: Our bitterness and self-hatred are YOUR problem. Please don’t inflict them on the rest of us. We’re not interested.
jwtraveler
@Clark35: YOUR bitterness..
jwtraveler
@Dakotahgeo: They’re working for me.
ingyaom
That’s a lot of production.
sportyguy1983
smh
Cyrus
This is pretty much everything I want from gay culture — sexy men (and women), body diversity, kinks, a sense of playfulness and positivity, killer drag, and choreographed dancing. Seriously awesome.
buddy-x
LOL! This was fucking great. I agree with Cyrus.
McShane
George Takei, say’s it best. “Oh myyy!”
Folsom is so much fun. What a cool video. Sexy.
Chris
Camp., dancing hands, and lots of fun. Leather just another costume.
ben around
As a parody or joke, this is well done – and having been around forever – I appreciate well-produced satire. BUT as a promo for the Folsom Street Fair this is bordering on white washing what was a classic event born out of celebrating (somewhat darkly) primarily gay male hyper-masculinity and sexuality. This video waters down and sterilizes an event to the point of comedy to accommodate mainstream outsiders for tourism. SF sells-out again: Reducing the past intensity and lifestyle celebration of the fair to a bad Catherine Zeta Jones Broadway knock off. Poof! …substance gone the way of the original SOMA Beach Blanket Babylon.
I personally have never been much for Folsom in any of its forms, but am fatigued by the loss of our original gay events’ expression. The video is cute, witty, and well produced. For a satire, well done. As a marketing promotion this is the equivalent of black-face for Folsom Street Fair. Next? A Disney production of Steamworks on Ice at the Cow Palace.
Neil Ballantyne
Well that just turned me off leather
Finrod
Was there some doubt that jock straps were appropriate dance attire?
justgeo
Dammmn you bitches joke parody not Zeta Jones Bob Fosse and as a New York into dance Concert Modern and B’way—Gotta tell you the “lead” with the teacher was truly kinda amazing doing Fosse movement WHICH AIN’T EASY TO DO WELL.
The guy did it well.