This September, Folsom Street in San Francisco between Eighth and 13th streets will close down to car traffic and welcome revelers to the largest kink and leather event of its kind. If you’ve never attended a Folsom Street Fair, you’ve surely seen photos.

But how did we get here?

San Francisco Pride is more than a march and rally. It is an entire season of Pride. We’ve picked out 12 highlights to celebrate diversity in the city by the bay.

San Francisco continues to welcome gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender visitors, in light of today’s decisions from the California Supreme Court upholding Proposition 8 while validating the 18,000 same sex marriages performed between June and November.