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Live Shots: Folsom Street Fair whipped up fun in the sun

Tens of thousands of freaks proved for the 40th year that San Francisco knows how to let it all out, and then some.

The Goddess showered warmth upon tens of thousands of freaks last Sunday at Folsom Street Fair, 40 years after it started as a SoMa neighborhood anti-gentrification protest—and, as they say: sun’s out, everything’s out. The annual kink festival was a bracing kick in the civic pride, showing yet again that San Francisco is as wild, debaucherous, scandalous, creative, liberated, hot—and resilient— as ever. Photographer Jon Bauer caught the scene for us, some of them are of course a bit risqué —Marke B.

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