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As San Francisco gentrifies, a gay subculture secures its space
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The annual Folsom Street Fair has been going since and attracts about , people. But gentrification had threatened to suffocate the subculture known as leather that it celebrates - until city authorities stepped in earlier this year. The gritty, industrial SoMa district first became associated with the subculture - which nowadays takes in fetishes like bondage, sado-masochism and flesh hook suspension - in , when a popular gay bar called The Tool Box opened. It catered to gay men who dressed in leather, a symbol of homosexual masculinity in contrast with the more effeminate attitude of groups of gay men congregating elsewhere in San Francisco. At its peak in the early-to-mid s, some 30 bars, sex clubs, restaurants, bathhouses, clothing stores, and other establishments catered to leather.
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