While most of the films we including in the Gay Short Film Showcase were made to be seen at festivals and other similar events, this one is a little different as it’s basically an advert – but it’s certainly not your typical ad.
In Folsom Street, the famed San Francisco fetish street fair gets melded with a bit of Broadway for a leather, sex and latex musical number.
The event organizers hired gay indie filmmaker Aron Kantor (Best known for his viral Jack’d video ‘If Guys Acted in Real Life the Way they do on Gay Apps’ that surpassed 1,000,000 views in a week), to shoot a short film. The idea was to celebrate the rich history of diversity that pushes the limits of raw sexuality and makes SF the exciting cultural haven it has always been.
Kantor says, “As San Francisco’s unique culture faces the unstoppable forces of gentrification, I felt it necessary to create a time capsule to celebrate the diversity and sexual freedom that make this city so vital and special. The city’s queer community is tremendously diverse, talented and beautiful, and the production of this film became a celebration, a joyful homage to this city’s sexually deviant history and gloriously seedy heyday.”
Folsom Street Fair 2015 is Sunday, September 27, 11am – 6pm on Folsom Street between 8th and 13th streets in San Francisco, CA. You can watch the short film below.
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