48 Hills is proud to be the 42nd annual Folsom Street Fair‘s exclusive San Francisco media partner. Up until the Fair itself on Sunday, September 28, we’ll be guiding you through the history, looks, parties, and people of the world’s largest kink and fetish celebration. Check www.48hills.org/folsom-2025 for updates.

At Folsom Street Fair (Sun/28), amid the booming bass, stomping boots, and cracking whips, sunlight ricochets off chains, piercings, and mirrored shades as the air thickens with the mingled scent of sunscreen, sweat, and leather polish.

The crowd packs in tight, shoulder to shoulder, thigh to thigh, and nobody flinches. Proximity isn’t an accident here—it’s the point. Outfits cling to bodies, or barely cover them at all, until body and costume blur into the same exhibition of

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