Pride

One of the world's largest and longest-running LGBTQ+ film festivals.

The traditional opening event of San Francisco Pride weekend and one of the world's largest trans gatherings: a rally and resource fair at Dolores Park before the march steps off through the Mission to Civic Center each June.

SF Pride over the last weekend of June: a weekend celebration at Civic Center Plaza and the Sunday parade, which steps off at 10:30am at Market and Beale and runs up Market Street to 8th Street, by the Civic Center.

The largest leather and fetish street fair in the world, held 11am to 6pm on the last Sunday of September along thirteen blocks of Folsom Street, between 8th and 13th, in SoMa. Entry is free with a suggested cash donation at the gates, which funds the community grants that Folsom Street, the producing nonprofit, hands out every year. The fair draws crowds of up to 400,000: hundreds of vendors selling leather, latex, rubber, and gear, play stations and demos, an erotic artists' stage, community and health tables, and DJ and live-music stages running all day. It is an adults-only space, and the parties around it are 21 and up. The whole week builds toward the Sunday: a fundraising leather march the weekend before, block parties and gear-shop events, marquee circuit and fetish parties across SoMa's clubs on Friday and Saturday nights, and a long-running community-benefit dance closing the weekend after the fair. The first fair was held in 1984, during the AIDS crisis and a wave of redevelopment that threatened SoMa's leather bars and clubs, and it remains part street party, part act of defiance. In 2018 the city made the neighborhood the world's first Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District.

San Francisco's unofficial closing party for Folsom weekend: a leather-leaning benefit dance held on the last Sunday of September at 1015 Folsom since 1989, raising money for LGBTQ+ and HIV charities. It is run as a fundraiser rather than a commercial night, with 100 percent of general admission and of net proceeds going to Bay Area LGBTQ+ organizations. It is 21 and up, it sells out most years, and there is no entry after 1am, so late arrivals are turned away.

El Sobrante's Pride festival, held since 2024 on a Sunday afternoon at the end of September at La Moine Park in Richmond, with drag performers, DJ Page Hodel, food trucks, vendors, community groups and family activities.

The largest bear dance party in the US, founded in San Francisco in 2006 and now touring dozens of cities. In San Francisco it lands around Pride, Dore Alley, and Folsom weekend.

A West Coast queer, art-and-creator-focused dance party in San Francisco, with special editions built around Pride, Folsom weekend, Halloween, and other occasions.