Stories

• Upcoming 15 Association Events
• Message from the Chairman
• Folsom Play Party
• Leatherwalk 2026 Fundraiser
• Eagle Beer Bust
• The 15 Worldwide
• Member News
• Other Events

Upcoming 15 Association Events

Get out and play with your brothers! Mark your calendars for these upcoming 15 Association Play (and other) Events:

• Sat Sept 26th 6:00pm – 11:59pm (Doors Close: 10pm) — Folsom Play Party — Paradox, 1310 Mission St, SF, Advance Ticket Required.
• Sun Oct 4th 3:00pm – 7:00pm — Eagle Beer Bust — SF Eagle, 398 12th St, SF
• Sat Oct 17th 6:00pm – 11:00pm (Doors Close: 9pm) — Trick and Treat Play Party — Paradox, 1310 Mission St, SF Advance Ticket Recommended.
• Sun Nov 1st 3:00pm – 7:00pm — Eagle Beer Bust — SF Eagle, 398 12th St, SF
• Sat Nov 21st 7:00pm – 11:59pm (Doors Close: 10pm) — Powerplay with ONYX Northwest — StopGap, 1170 Mission St, SF Advance Ticket Recommended.

For Advance Ticket Required events, tickets must be purchased in advance, and will NOT be available at the door.

For Advance Ticket Recommended events, tickets can be purchased in advance on the website, but can also be obtained at the door if they are still available (however the only payment allowed is credit/debit card, i.e. no cash).

The Calendar on our website is more current than the Inquisitor.

Message from the Chairman

I hope you all purchase your tickets to our Folsom Party, one of our biggest of the year. We will be hosting our party at Paradox, and there are a lot of new and exciting changes to the dungeon, but get your tickets early as this one will sell out in advance. But what I want to talk about is helping the club out. This year has seen some exciting changes; a new venue, new associates joining every month, new parties and themes. In fact our club is experiencing a veritable renaissance of sorts. We have not had this much new energy, play, and sex, in a long time. I could say it is the result of a post-covid rebound. Or it could be a reclaiming of our community and safe space in the face of a challenging political climate. Ultimately it comes down to you all, you are the ones that create and recreate our club every month. Your fraternal committee works to create the parties and the events, and keep the ship afloat financially. Every year we fundraise on top of our ticket prices to pay for things like: our liability insurance, our storage lockers, the open-air dungeon at Dore, and to keep our parties open and turning no one away. This month and next there are a few fundraisers that I know you will help us out with. First we have a unique opportunity to raise several thousand dollars working the ticket gate at the Folsom Street Fair. And the weekend afterward on Sunday, October 4th, we have our first of two beer busts for the year. Please volunteer for one or both of these fundraisers and keep our club affordable for all. We need everyone to be financially able to show up and be a part of this amazing club. Humbly, your Chairman

Folsom Play Party

Feel the energy building? — On the eve of the Folsom Street Fair — at one of our biggest play parties of the year!

Get your juices flowing, create some endorphin highs, and satisfy your kinky needs with your brothers of The 15 Association.

See and play with your out-of-town friends, who only come in for the high holy days.

Getting excited about having a really great, fun time? Then get your tickets early! This party sells out 10 to 14 days before the event. When the tickets are gone, there’s no more room in the dungeon.

The 15 Association is Raising Money for Leatherwalk 2026

Bring Your Kink, Step Out, Give Back — Sunday, September 20th, 10:00 AM. New start location: SF Eagle.

The Club is committed to raising $1,000 for the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District. Donate today, or become your own fundraiser and join our team:

https://connect.clickandpledge.com/Organization/somarts/Campaign/leatherwalk-2026/Team/15Association

Eagle Beer Bust – October 4th

Volunteers are needed for a successful beer bust! Sign up and support the club.

Announcing: The 15 Worldwide

Are you planning to travel? Need some pointers on gay/queer areas and kink events? The 15 Worldwide is here to help.

The 15 Worldwide consists of members of the 15, most of who live outside San Francisco, who are familiar with their home turf or other major areas and have generously volunteered to give visiting members tips on where to go (and not to go) and things to do, both kinky and not. We call them “Ambassadors for The 15 Worldwide”.

If you are a member, starting Sept 1st you will have access to the Ambassador list of The 15 Worldwide in the Members Only section of the website. Each Ambassador is listed with their area and their expertise and the best way to contact them. Give them a shout before (or during) your travel.

You may even find a new, non-local 15 friend during the process!

A huge thank-you to the members who have volunteered to be ambassadors, and a special thanks to our webmaster, Andrew C., for his work in the iterative process of providing the Ambassador list on the website.

If you would like to be an ambassador for The 15, drop us a line at the15worldwide@gmail.com

— Greg Boyd, Fraternal Member

Member News

Asking for Help

As some of you know, an incident at the end of May has left me unable to tattoo for the next 2–3 months.

For those who don’t know me very well, asking for help has never come easily. I’ve always been much more comfortable being the one behind the scenes volunteering, teaching, lending a hand, or showing up for community. But life has a funny way of reminding us that sometimes we have to cast our pride aside and let others show up for us.

Rather than starting a GoFundMe or another fundraising campaign where a percentage of every donation disappears into processing fees, I’m asking for your support in a different way.

Two online stores:

• Trudy’s Toy Palace “Beatings on a Budget” features my high quality handmade impact toys, violet wand accessories, and other kinky creations including stickers and pins. Details: Trudys-Toy-Palace.square.site
• NEW: Trudy’s Toy Palace Apparel, my print-on-demand shirt shop featuring original Trans, Queer, Leather, Tattoo-inspired and Gay Pride designs. Details: Trudys-Toy-Palace.myshopify.com

Every purchase, every share, and every recommendation helps keep me afloat while I recover. It also helps me keep my shop space secure until I’m back on my feet and doing what I love most.

Thank you to everyone who has already reached out, checked in, and offered support. It means more than I can put into words.

In Brotherhood,
Gauge

Other Events

LDG Mentor Program Update

The LDG Mentor Program has spent this year listening to feedback and rebuilding for its return in 2027. Updates are posted at sfldg.org/mentoring. Mentor applications open in early September, with mentee applications following in early November, ahead of a January program start. We hope that some of you will consider sharing your wisdom with the next generation. Join the SFLDG mail list at sfldg.org/mail to get the announcement as soon as it goes out. Questions can go to Erik at MentorProgram@sfldg.org.

Racial Portraits Book Release Party

Fri, Sept 25th, 7–10 pm
1229 Folsom St, SF

Also open Sun, Sept 27th between 11am and 6pm during the Folsom St Fair.

Provocative political portraits of queer men of color and queer leathermen of color from the S.F. bay area and others. Gay radical sex photographer Mark I Chester’s 10-year project talking with, collaborating with, and ultimately photographing queer men of color and queer leathermen of color. Representation matters. But authentic representation matters even more. Conversations about race, queer sexuality, and racism in both the mainstream world and the gay/queer community led to stunningly beautiful, sometimes challenging, and often surprising images of queer men of color.

Many well-known bay area leathermen are in these images including Ghee Phua, Jonathan Villanueva, Aaron Wolf, Derron Thweatt, Sir Hex, and Wylde Honey.

Text Mark at 415-613-0369 for more info.

Grown Folks Glamping Weekend

October 2–4, 2026, Gold Beach, Oregon

Grown Folks Glamping Weekend is a rustic, social-media-free weekend for gay adults to reconnect over campfires, shared meals, nature, play, kink, and good company. Activities are lightly planned, cannabis is welcome, and all meals are included. Choose from private cabins, a bunkhouse, or vehicle/tent camping. While this is rustic, we have a commercial kitchen and a bathhouse with running hot water and real toilets.

Come relax, make connections, and help create the weekend with us.

“Trust in the process. Get in the van.”

— Boots and Bonfire, NWGayforplay.com

NOLA Leatherfest

The Crescent City Leathermen (CCL) will have their first run, NOLA Leatherfest, 12–15 November 2026 in New Orleans.

Details can be found at: nolaleatherfest.com

Sober Leathermen – Find Recovery at Leather Events

The soberleathermen.org website was born out of the desire to connect people to sobriety at leather events. While the focus is on gay leathermen, we hope that people of all gender identities will find the website helpful when navigating sobriety in leather spaces.

This website is not affiliated with any event, meeting, or fellowship.

Leather 12 Step Recovery

For those who are in recovery from addiction, there is a Zoom Leather Recovery group that meets several times a week. Not affiliated with AA/NA/Al-Anon and established over the pandemic, it is an open 12-step meeting for those who are in our community and wish to meet with and be supported by like-minded individuals who understand their kink & fetish interests and how those can interact with recovery.

To inquire, email zoomleatherrecovery@gmail.com for more information.

The group meets on:
Monday @ 5:30pm
Tuesday & Thursday @ 6pm
Sunday @ 10am

Patreons

Transform1060! Check out the website www.Transform1060.org for donation opportunities and description of the facility.

The Leather Journal — NOW back to paper print! Still recording our history and the greater Leather, Kink and Fetish community for over 35 years!
https://www.patreon.com/theleatherjournal
https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-leather-journal-going

Got News? We want it!

Do you have News or Events our members would have interest in or enjoy outside the Dungeon?! Whether you are producing an event or just attending one others may not be aware and wish to participate. Our Community has much to offer and a variety of tastes so don’t hesitate to e-mail by the 25th of the month for publication in the following month’s issue. Inquisitor editor: Tyler Fong tazpuppy15@gmail.com.