Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir of 1970s Soma and Leatherfolk in Gay San Francisco Extended Families from origins to aftermath

from origins to aftermath

where love must overcome evil

and the terrifying possibility of being loved

This work furthers the efforts of asexuality scholars to decenter sexuality from its predominant role in modern Western identities from an embodied

More than any other document of the period

Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir of 1970s Soma and Leatherfolk in Gay San Francisco Extended Families from origins to aftermathJim Stewart, a survivor of the Titanic 1970s, has written a wonderful memoir revealing how South of Market became hip SoMa in San Francisco. Leading a lusty life surfing the first wave of gay liberation up to HIV, he is an uninhibited writer spilling personal tales of sex, art, and friendship during that first decade of Gay Liberation after Stonewall. As carpenter, he designed and constructed the sexy interiors of Folsom Street leather bars as well as