Folsom Forever

Director-Producer: Mike Skiff (aka Mark Jenson)
Documentary: 2014 -1hr 12min

Folsom Forever, Mike Skiff’s 2014 documentary (also credited as Mark Jenson), traces how the Folsom Street Fair grew from a modest South of Market gathering into the largest outdoor kink and fetish event in the world — and how, along the way, it became a genuine engine for community fundraising and civic good. Jack Fritscher appears among the film’s interview subjects, sharing the frame with figures central to San Francisco’s leather, political, and academic history: Cleo Dubois, Lance Holman, Liliane Hunt, Audrey Joseph, former state senator Mark Leno, Demetri Moshoyannis, Sister Roma, scholar Gayle Rubin, Scott Wiener, and Danny Williams. The film premiered at Frameline 38, San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ film festival, running June 19–29, 2014. Skiff, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and leatherman documentarian, died on November 22, 2016 — just two years after the premiere — making Folsom Forever one of the last documents of his own community’s history that he lived to complete.