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Contents:

• THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT
• CASTRO DISTRICT, SAN FRANCIS GUI AND VOICE OF THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY!
• CASTRO DISTRICT, CASTRO SAN FRANCIS GUI AND VOICE OF THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY!
• GENTRIFITN IS CHANGG INIC GAY NEIGHBORHOODS L.A. AND S.F.
• THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS

THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT

The Castro, which has been the cy's center of LGBTQ activism and culture, the heart of the gay muny arguably one of the Francis has bee synonymo wh gay culture. The Castro, which has been the cy's center of LGBTQ activism and culture, the heart of the gay muny arguably one of the iendlit ci the USA, is an unual, yet unmissable experience.

As you will walk through the neighborhood, you will notice bronze siwalk plaqu: this walk of fame lled the Rabow Honor Walk honors Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer dividuals who have ma a signifint difference to society.

CASTRO DISTRICT, SAN FRANCIS GUI AND VOICE OF THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY!

Walkg around the Castro, you'll enunter many lorful characters, and get a real feel for the special ambiance San Francis's gay area offers. Beg San Francis's gay district, The Castro is full of exclively gay shops, such as Do Your Mother Know (4141 18th Street), and lots of queer clothg stor.

Once you’ve regaed your strength, make way to some of the bt gay bars and clubs San Francis, where there's somethg for everyone. Many across the Uned Stat nsir San Francis to be a “Gay Mec” due to s large gay muny loted primarily the Castro District as well as the cy’s relatively liberal attu towards sex.

In the 1950s, Beat Culture epted San Francis and notorly rebelled agast middle class valu, th aligng self wh homosexualy and helped brg gay culture to mastream attentn. In the mid to late 1950s, groups such as the Dghters of Bilis and the Mattache Society were born, as well as the Tavern Guild, which was the first openly gay bs associatn. Unfortunately, the anti-gay feelgs of the greater Uned Stat reached San Francis the late 70s, which were followed by the assassatn of Mayor Mosne and Harvey Milk and the Whe Night Rt as well as the AIDS epimic of the 1980s.

CASTRO DISTRICT, CASTRO SAN FRANCIS GUI AND VOICE OF THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY!

All of the events have led to a work of self-help anizatns as well as a vibrant and strong gay muny the Castro and San Francis. Homosexuals across Ameri nsir San Francis a "Gay Mec" thanks to the rise of the distctive gay muny, primarily the Castro District, centered at the tersectn of Castro and 18th Streets, a block om upper Market Street. Some timate that there are as many as 100, 000 gay men and lbians San Francis, out of a total populatn of approximately 750, 000.

This was also te San Francis, but thanks to several cinc, SF also beme home to thoands of gays, and the Castro is the district which they cid to spend their money, put down roots and make a home. One and a half ln soldiers, 10%+ of which were homosexual, were able to fd each other more easily the margal districts of San Francis.

Sarria was born San Francis and performed each Sunday afternoon for fifteen years to full ho of 250 or more, g his role as Madam Butterfly to sermonize about homosexual rights and leadg a sg-along of "God Save the Nelly Queens. Durg the 1950s San Francis also spawned the Beat Culture, which shared spac and attus wh the cipient gay culture. The beats exprsed a basic rejectn of Amerin middle class valu, pecially the fay and suburbanism, which cid closely wh early gay attus.

GENTRIFITN IS CHANGG INIC GAY NEIGHBORHOODS L.A. AND S.F.

Of urse, n be argued that a good al of gay culture tri to emulate middle class Ameri and s valu, helpg homosexualy to bee more mastream and ls stigmatized. In 1962 police and alhol ntrol board harassment led to the tablishment of the Tavern Guild, nsistg of the owners of primarily gay and bohemian tablishments. Earlier, 1955, the Mattache Society (one of the first ever gay anizatns) had moved s headquarters om Los Angel to San Francis and eventually spawned The Advote, the natn's first gay magaze.

Mayor Gee Christopher, a relatively nservative Republin, was cricized by an even more nservative challenger, Rsell Woln, his 1959 re-electn mpaign for allowg the cy to bee "the natnal headquarters of anized homosexuals Ameri, " but the tablishment and lol prs cricized Woln for harmg the image of San Francis and Christopher was re-elected. A 1951 California Supreme Court cisn banned the closg down of a bar simply bee homosexuals were the ual ctomers.

THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS

Manuel Castells nvcgly argu The Grassroots and the Cy that The Black Cat had also tablished an important cultural precent for the gay muny: fun and humor. The element of immediate pleasure and fun that gays strove to tablish their daily liv found an emphatic echo and expansn the hippie movement of the 1960s. In 1978, an ultra-nservative state senator put on the statewi ballot the Briggs Iniative, tend to ban gays om teachg the public schools.

Wh the energetic participatn of Milk and thoands of newly self-empowered gay activists, Briggs was feated by a sound majory. Unr Reagan many nservative assumptns were adapted to, and gay polics beme more an tert group and ls a progrsive agenda. Gay polics beme very foced on gettg rourc dited to the AIDS suatn, or more practilly, on the creatn of an astoundg work of self-help anizatns.

The above-ground gay prs San Francis supports an imprsive three fat weekli, Bay Tim, Bay Area Reporter (BAR), and the 1970's The Sentel. Vibrant and eclectic, the Castro/Upper Market neighborhood is an ternatnally known symbol of gay eedom, a top tourist statn full of stylish shops and popular entertament spots, and a thrivg rintial area that thoands of San Francisns ll home. Its streets are filled wh lovgly rtored Victorian hom, rabow pri flags, shops offerg one-of-a-kd merchandise, herage streetrs, lively bars and rtrants, and numero gay-borhood landmarks cludg Harvey Milk Plaza, the Castro Theatre, Pk Triangle Park and Memorial, and the large SF Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Communy Center.