Church St Fetish Fair embraces sex, community
“Sexual acceptance was what brought us here, the idea of identifying ourselves sexually, so this festival is about expression and celebrating differences.”
So says David Wootton, manager of the Church Wellesley Village Business Improvement Area (CWVBIA), which holds the annual Church Street Fetish Fair. The Fair’s seventh edition takes place Sunday, August 15 and promises to draw fetishists of all stripes to enjoy a day of leather-clad schmoozing amid extended bar patio hours, dozens of vendor and community info booths, and three entertainment stages.
“The fair has a political agenda,” says Wooton. “It does brand this neighbourhood — it keeps the sex in the Village. We need to keep a certain amount of that so that members of the global community know we still identify with sexual freedom and sexual practice.”
