noizemagazine - Index

noizemagazine - noiZe Magazine Issue 57 August 2008 - Index

Arts interior with the kind of lights,
projections, lasers and props that
partygoers have come to expect,
with some new twists to keep the
concept fresh.
In addition to Magnitude, Franco
also manages Bay of Pigs, the
Saturday night party for the Dore
Alley Fair. Dore is the smaller cousin
to Folsom and attracts less nonleather
tourists and more sleaze.
When asked if anything shocks him
at Folsom or Magnitude anymore,
Franco simply replies, ”I’ve seen
just about everything you can imagine—and
then some. But what really
shocks me is that there are still gay
people in this day and age with
puritanical minds who judge the
way that other gay people express
themselves sexually.”
Perhaps. But maybe, just maybe,
with the continued success of
Folsom Street Fair and Magnitude,
some of those closed minds will
be changed.
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