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San Francisco is packed with homo goodness

San Francisco. SF or SFO. Never San Fran and definitely not Frisco. The gayest town in America, as if you weren’t aware. What you may not grasp is the secret of San Francisco: Everyone is a little gay. Everyone. Most of the metropolis have gotten over the fact that some girls like girls and some boys like boys, sometimes two or three at a time. It’s the live-and-let-live temperament that makes the city so attractive. “Whatever man, it’s cool” should be the capital motto.

You might be struck by the small size of the city. In its seven miles by seven miles, San Francisco’s residents have etched out more than 100 neighborhoods. While the Castro remains home for the homos, this one neighborhood should not define your life. The whole city is lousy with men, women, and everything in between. Let your gaydar or dykedar adjust to the surroundings and follow the beeps and clicks coming from your loins.

It’s a very walkable and bikeable city. Without the ride, you’ll find unique petite shops and restaurants and enjoy some obscenely evident people-watching. Great food comes with all different price tags, but to spot it, you’ll have to avoid th

Historical Essay

by Chris Carlsson, 1995

Castro Street Fair, 1978

Castro Highway Scene 1970s

Photos: Crawford Barton, Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California

Many across the Combined States consider San Francisco to be a “Gay Mecca” due to its large gay community located primarily in the Castro District as well as the city’s relatively liberal attitude towards sex. Until the 1960’s, though, the Castro was largely a white working class Irish neighborhood known as “Eureka Valley.” A shift came during World War II, when many soldiers came to San Francisco and formed gay relationships. These soldiers then stayed in the city after organism discharged for homosexuality. In the 1950s, Beat Customs erupted in San Francisco and notoriously rebelled against middle class values, thus aligning itself with homosexuality and helped bring homosexual culture to mainstream attention. In the mid to late 1950s, groups such as the Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society were born, as well as the Tavern Guild, which was the first openly gay business association. By 1969, there were 50 gay organizations in San Francisco, and by 1973 there were 800. Unfortunately,

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Vibrant and eclectic, the Castro/Upper Market neighborhood is an internationally known symbol of gay freedom, a superior tourist destination full of stylish shops and widespread entertainment spots, and a thriving residential area that thousands of San Franciscans call home.

Its streets are filled with lovingly restored Victorian homes, rainbow celebration flags, shops offering one-of-a-kind merchandise, heritage streetcars, lively bars and restaurants, and numerous gay-borhood landmarks including Harvey Milk Plaza, the Castro Theatre, Pink Triangle Park and Memorial, and the large SF Sapphic Gay Bisexual Transgender People Center.

The Castro District, enhanced known as The Castro, is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, which is also known as Eureka Valley.

San Francisco’s homosexual village is most concentrated in the business district that is located on Castro Street from Market Street to 19th Lane. It extends down Market Street toward Church and on both sides of the Castro neighborhood from Church Street to Eureka Street. Although the greater gay community was, and is, concentrated in the Castro many gay people live in the surrounding residential areas bordered by the

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