The Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District in San Francisco [Edit]

The Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District in San Francisco was created by a resolution unanimously passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on May 1, 2018 and signed by the Mayor on May 9, 2018; a ribbon cutting was held on June 12 that year outside the Stud to mark the district’s creation.

The district is bounded approximately by Howard St. on the northwest, 7th St. on the northeast, I-80 on the east and US 101 on the south. There is also an exclave between 5th and 6th streets, Harrison and Bryant. It includes the San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley, which opened in 2017.

The district was founded in hopes it would “honor and commemorate the people, places and institutions that gave South of Market its distinctive culture and appeal, and would also help protect the remaining businesses and spaces, and sustain the people who live, work and recreate there.”