San Francisco is My Home

24
Sep

Leather pride

Author: kris, Category: Groups

Looking out my window, I can see that the enormous rainbow flag that floats over the Castro 51 weeks a year has been replaced by the leather pride flag, for this week is Leather Pride Week. The leather flag, counter-intuitively, is not made of leather; instead, it’s blue and white stripes with a big red heart.

I have always wondered why the leather pride group gets a whole week with its own flag up the pole, but none of the other LGBT groups do. Every year I intend to ask, but every year I am pleasantly distracted by the leather daddies wandering the streets of my neighborhood in leather chaps and outfits of every description. I love the fanciful costumes people concoct. Though every year I am also a little nervous that a roving gang of vegans might pick this week to invade the Castro. It would mean a rumble of epic proportions.