San Francisco Folsom Street Fair

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They came by the tens of thousands to San Francisco on Sunday, strutting in the annual homage to Indian summer and specialty leather goods known as the Folsom Street Fair.
The balmy weather was a good thing, considering all the naked people.
Many of those who opted for clothes did so not out of modesty or necessity, but because their raiments expressed an intense personal interest of one kind or another.
"My particular fetish is uniforms," said Robert Green, who was outfitted in a Los Angeles police officer's uniform that was true in every detail, except that it was fabricated from leather.
Green, a Los Angeles resident, described the event "as a combination freak show and simple excuse for people to just come together and enjoy their fetishes."
That more or less jibed with Todd Oliver's point of view. The fair is about "diversity, about everybody feeling free to be who they are," said the burly Seattle resident, who was clad in a leather harness, a cap and little else.
"I got sunburned, but I put on some sunblock," he said. "I'm drinking a beer -- I'm having a good time."
Also enjoying the spectacle were Phil and Toby Jones of Detroit. They stood plastered against a wall with their little dog, observing the passing parade of alternative lifestyle advocates with eyes roughly the size of poached eggs.
"We're looky-loos," said Phil Jones. "We're staying at the Ritz-Carlton, and we asked them what's the one thing we shouldn't miss while we're in town, and they said this is it. And they were right."
"It's not offensive, just strange," said Toby Jones, stroking the ears of her dog. "It kind of makes you wonder if one of these guys with his butt hanging out might be working in the office cubicle next to you on Monday."
Folsom Street was packed with people for several blocks and lined with booths offering everything from chicken satay to literature on gay-friendly evangelical churches. Fair monitor Chris Comis said the crowd was "about the same" size as last year's, which he pegged at 300,000.
Some of the stuff seemed too extreme for all but the most specialized tastes: The urethral vibrator, for example, purveyed by Lord Dimitri E. Ville. The name of the device adequately describes its function.
"Not a huge demand for those," acknowledged Lord Ville.
from SFGate.com