Real Bad is the name of a fundraising party held annually in
San Francisco, California immediately following the
Folsom Street Fair
Folsom Street Fair (FSF) is an annual Kink (sexuality), kink, leather subculture, and Paraphilia, alternative sexuality street fair, held in September that concludes San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week". The Folsom Street Fair, sometimes refe ...
. The party, which occurs on the last Sunday in September, has been in existence since 1989. It is thrown by a non-profit organization called Grass Roots Gay Rights West (GRGR/West). Most of the money raised by the event comes from ticket sales, which are generated by a network of party hosts who sell tickets to friends. Proceeds from the party go to
HIV
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/
AIDS
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charities and
LGBT
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health and community service organizations. In 2007, the party raised $150,000 for
San Francisco Bay Area
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charities.
"Leather Events Spread the Wealth"
Bay Area Reporter
The ''Bay Area Reporter'' is a free weekly LGBT newspaper serving the LGBT communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the largest-circulation LGBT newspapers in the United States, and the country's oldest continuously published ne ...
, November 22, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.
Because it serves as an unofficial closing event for Folsom Street Fair weekend, the party has a leather
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and BDSM
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bent.
See also
*List of electronic music festivals
The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which encapsulates music featuring electronic instruments such as electric guitars and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (E ...
References
External links
Real Bad official site
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Music festivals established in 1989
LGBTQ events in California
Culture of San Francisco
Circuit parties
Electronic music festivals in the United States
LGBTQ festivals in the United States
1989 establishments in California