"Ask Me Anything" with Race Bannon – Kink Fetish Edition
Thu, Feb 05
|The Academy SF
Get up close with local icon Race Bannon in an intimate, uncensored conversation. From personal history to the leather scene, he holds nothing back—and no question is too much.


Time & Location
Feb 05, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
The Academy SF, 2166 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA
Guests
About the Event
Get up close with local icon Race Bannon in an intimate, uncensored conversation. From personal history to the leather scene, he holds nothing back —and no question is too much.
"I’ve been active in the Leather scene since 1973. Initially, apart from being a bartender in a sleazy kinky bar, I was essentially a lone maverick player. Then around 1980 I got deeply involved with various clubs, organizations and projects that changed that lone wolf status. Since then I’ve been an organizer, writer, educator, speaker and activist in the LGBT, leather/kink, polyamory and HIV/STI prevention realms. I’ve authored a well-known BDSM book, been published extensively, spoken to hundreds of audiences, created the world's largest kink-friendly psychotherapist and medical referral service (Kink Aware Professionals), was a leader of The DSM Project that led to a beneficial change in the way psychotherapy views BDSM, founded a groundbreaking alternative sexuality publishing company (Daedalus…
