San Francisco Fetish Event Featuring Public Nudity And Packed Crowds Still On—Despite Monkeypox State Of Emergency!
It’s San Francisco, so please don’t be surprised. Via East Bay Times:
Amid a burgeoning monkeypox outbreak that has so far disproportionately affected gay and bisexual men, Bay Area public health officials and organizers of one of the region’s most beloved LGBTQ events are walking a difficult line between preventing the spread of the virus, while fighting the stigma of the virus as a disease limited to the LGBTQ community.
Despite San Francisco officials’ declaration of a public health emergency over the monkeypox virus, organizers of Dore Alley — a live-out-loud leather and fetish festival that’s been a favorite among LGBTQ communities in the Bay Area since the 1980s — said Friday they intend to hold the festival this weekend.
The San Francisco event, which is expected to draw 5,000 people, comes amid deep anxieties across the LGBTQ community over the outbreak, which has proliferated amid a shortage of vaccines.
I assume that unvaccinated people who go to Dore Alley—a crowded event packed with mostly naked men engaged in various fetish activities and public sex—completely understand the high risk, and they would agree that if they become infected, they obviously deserve it. As long as they’re all on the same page, enjoy!
