Folsom Street Donates More than $350,000 to charities

This year Folsom Street was able to raise $350,066 despite all of its controversy. The charities include AIDS Emergency Fund, Dolores Street Community Services, Frameline Center, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Stop Aids Project just to name a few.

"We are deeply humbled by this philanthropic achievement," said Andy Copper, president of the organization's board of directors. "We are so very grateful to our sponsors, beneficiaries, beverage partners and the leather/fetish community for its growing, generous support. This is absolutely a record-breaking year, and we are already working diligently on our upcoming 25th Folsom Street Fair in 2008."

Folsom Street Events is a 501(c)3 nonprofit agency that produces four annual fetish events: Bay of Pigs, Up Your Alley, Magnitude, and Folsom Street Fair. The organization's mission is to create volunteer-driven leather events that provide the adult alternative lifestyle community with safe venues for self-expression while emphasizing freedom, fun, frolic and fetish and raising funds to benefit charity. In 2006, more than 350,000 attendees raised $301,512 for charitable donations