Are public gay celebrations under attack? First came word that Chicago Pride was moving both the location and the time of its annual parade. Now producers of San Francisco‘s Folsom Street Fair have announced they’re changing the date of the infamous erotic free-for-all for the first time in two decades. Traditionally held the final weekend of September, Folsom will be held on Sunday, September 23, 2012—to avoid a scheduling conflict with Oracle OpenWorld, a massive telecom conference running September 30 through October 4.
It’s not so much that their guest list will overlap (though you never know) as it is that Folsom producers are worried there won’t be enough hotel rooms to accommodate everyone.
“We were told only weeks after this year’s fair that nearly the entire inventory of hotel rooms for the city had been sold out for the last weekend of September 2012,” says Folsom Street Fair executive director Demetri Moshoyannis. “So, we were faced with a decision: either move the 2012 fair date and risk upsetting some people who had booked way in advance or not move the fair date, knowing that tens of thousands of visitors would be unable to book rooms at all.”
Source: Bay Area Reporter. Image via Blue
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Mark
sensationalizing much are we? Good grief — not an attack – I’m sure Oracle could care less about the street fair.
B
The Bay Area Reporter article QUEERTY linked to mentioned that over 40,000 people will be attending the Oracle event.
BTW, the Oracle event sometimes spills into the streets near the Moscone Convention Center, not all that far from the Folsom Street Fair. If they did that this year while the Folsom Street Fair was going on, the impact on traffic would not be pretty.
JayKay
It’s a festival of degeneracy, celebrating the absolute worst that the gay community has to offer. Shame it wasn’t canceled altogether.
the crustybastard
The Folsom Street Fair. Exhibitionists depicting gays as degenerate sex-freaks since 1984.™
Got no problem with sexual subcultures enjoyed between consenting adults. But it all belongs indoors.
All of it.
Miguel
@JayKay: Sounds like prudence prude needs to get laid…
ERic
@the crustybastard: Well it sure sounds like you go so why is that?
ERic
@JayKay: So you would have anyone who’s different and does not subject themselves to your norms stay hidden. Wow that is progress for the community.