This Sunday’s the Castro Street Fair, and that means it’s time for Sugar Valley!
Why, yes — I’d love one!
Sugar Valley is a group of alternative vendors and organizations — kind of on the alternaqueer and Gay Shame end of the homo spectrum — who hawk their mostly DIY fares with flair on 18th Street between Noe and Hartford. There’s tons of great, local-made art and clothing as well as some of the weirdest-wonderfullest items, entertainment, and carnival-like shenanigans you’ll see all year. Also, there’s some pretty neato places to sit and chill out — especially for those of us who feel faint after weathering the onslaught of rainbow windchimes and travartine nude wall-sculptures on offer at the rest of the fair.
Artist Ms. Vera jumps ship — to swim to Sugar Valley!