The Castro, San Francis Gay District - Where to stay, what to do

Contents:

• CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC
• TOP 10 GAY CAPALS FOR TRAVELAUGT 25, 2021 BY EDOR--CHIEFDPE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE STILL POLIL REGIM AND EVEN SO-LLED SOCIAL GROUPS AND RELIG ANIZATNS THAT FAIL TO PREHEND THE TE MEANG OF EQUALY REGARDLS OF WHO PEOPLE CHOOSE TO LOVE, HOW THEY CHOOSE TO LOOK PUBLIC, AND WHO THEY CHOOSE TO BE, MORE AND MORE DIVIDUALS – AND UPL – ARE NOW G OUT TO THE OPEN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCG TO THE WHOLE WORLD THEIR TE INTI. AND WHILE THE RT OF THE WORLD IS SLOW G TO TERMS WH THE RIGHTS OF THE LGBT MUNY, THERE ARE THOSE THAT HAVE OPENLY EMBRACED THEM AND PROVID A SAFE HAVEN FOR THOSE WHO RELISH EQUAL RIGHTS REGARDLS OF SEXUAL PREFERENC OR ORIENTATN. INED, THE UNTRI AND CI HAVE PROVID REFUGE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FACED RIDICULE AND NMNATN THEIR OWN UNTRI AND CI.WHILE ON THE WHOLE, THE WORLD IS A MUCH MORE AMENABLE TO GAY VISORS THAN ED TO BE, THERE ARE CERTA STATNS WHERE GAYS FEEL MORE FORTABLE AND WELE THAN OTHERS. THIS ARTICLE FOC ON TEN TOP STATNS THAT AREN’T JT GAY IENDLY; THEY ACTIVELY ENURAGE GAY VISORS AND GO ALL OUT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE BT TIME EVER.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? SAN FRANCIS IS UALLY THE THE PLACE MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY IS THE GAY PAL IF ASKED, BUT IF PENDS HOW YOU FE PAL. WE REARCHED THE HIGHT GAY MUNI PER PA, BUT EVEN THE DATA FOUND IS OUTDATED AND NOT PERFECT. THE REARCH N BE BASED ON PER PA, BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT ALWAYS OPEN AND HONT WHEN SURVEYED.REARCH HAS ALSO BEEN RRIED OUT BY HOW ‘GAY IENDLY’ CI ARE WHICH IS MUCH MORE MEASURABLE.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE USA?THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPA (HRC) NS A YEARLY MUNICIPAL EQUALIY INXCI ARE RANKED BY:NON-DISCRIMATN LAWS MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT POLICI CLIVENS OF CY SERVIC, LAW ENFORCEMENT (CLUDG HATE CRIM REPORTG) MUNICIPAL LEARSHIP ON MATTERS OF EQUALYTHOUGH THE MA NTENRS LIKE SAN FRANCIS, NEW YORK ARE HIGHT RANKED, THERE ARE MANY OTHER CI THAT DO VERY WELL UNR THE ABOVE CRERIA. WELL DONE PHEONIX, ORLANDO AND ATLANTA!!WHAT IS THE GAYT COUNTRY EUROPE?ACRDG TO REARCH, GERMANY HAS THE LARGT LGBT MUNY EUROPE, 7.4% OF GERMANS SAID THEY INTIFIED WH LGBT.ACRDG TO RABOW EUROPE THE BT UNTRY TERMS OF GAY IENDLY LEGISLATN MALTA!BT GAY CI THE WORLD (ACRDG TO )
• THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT
• FIL CASTRO TAK BLAME FOR PERSECUTN OF CUBAN GAYS
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
• CASTRO DISTRICT, SAN FRANCIS GUI AND VOICE OF THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY!
• WHERE IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? TEN FABULO CONTENRS… ?
• CERTALY THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD - THE CASTRO
• BRA'S 'GAY PALS' REVEALED - FD OUT WHERE YOUR PART OF THE UK RANKS
• A GAY GUI TO THE CASTRO
• LONDON GAY DISTRICT: SOHO

CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC

Photo cred: Goln Gate Natnal Parks ConservancyDurg WWII, “blue discharg” (a form of admistrative ary discharge) were issued by the US to people who were ught engagg homosexual San Francis beg the last port of ll before war the Pacific, many homosexuals were left behd to form their own muny of “intified gays”. At a time of rampant discrimatn, he beme a voice for the LGBT muny wh bold reform agendas that protect gay phed for improvements lol servic and facili Castro, and spoke out on important issu for margalised muni (LGBT people, women, racial mori etc) cred: The Bold ItalicHe also sponsored an anti-discrimatn bill and helped pass a gay rights ordance removg anti-gay discrimatn hog and today, his ntributns are wily regnised wh the muny and paved the way for future ton and gay policians like Gav Newsom and Mark Leno.

For stance, Bobbi Campbell led tnal projects that helped spread awarens about “Gay Cancer” and s, San Francis remas one of the ontnners AIDS rearch and and Events that scream #PriIf you’re thkg of makg a trip down to the vibrant Castro District, here are some plac and events to check out:Tw Peaks TavernBack the day, gay bars operated only behd closed wdows, hidn om the rt of the neighbourhood. Ined, the untri and ci have provid refuge for those who have faced ridicule and nmnatn their own untri and on the whole, the world is a much more amenable to gay visors than ed to be, there are certa statns where gays feel more fortable and wele than others.

Bt Gay Ci the World (acrdg to )Contents San Francis Sydney BrightonAmsterdamBerl Mexi, Puerto Vallarta Chelsea and Greenwich Village (NYC) R Prague BangkokCopenhagen: The Birthplace of Gay RightsToronto: The Bean of LGBTQ Rights San FrancisFor those who have been before, will e as no surprise to see San Francis at the top of the list. Copenhagen: The Birthplace of Gay RightsLong before the equaly qutn me to the nscns of the global muny the early 90s, this cy well-known for s lorful history, s LEGO herage, and s Nordic cuise, pneered champng the rights of lbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenrs when , as a natn, was the first to openly regnize same-sex relatnships or partnerships 1989. Wh a functnal yet very edgy fashn scene, Copenhagen has been a perennial favore of world-class gay uturiers, stylists, artists, and signers who fd Denmark’s exceptnally warm and vg hospaly as major reasons for settg up shop the land.

TOP 10 GAY CAPALS FOR TRAVELAUGT 25, 2021 BY EDOR--CHIEFDPE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE STILL POLIL REGIM AND EVEN SO-LLED SOCIAL GROUPS AND RELIG ANIZATNS THAT FAIL TO PREHEND THE TE MEANG OF EQUALY REGARDLS OF WHO PEOPLE CHOOSE TO LOVE, HOW THEY CHOOSE TO LOOK PUBLIC, AND WHO THEY CHOOSE TO BE, MORE AND MORE DIVIDUALS – AND UPL – ARE NOW G OUT TO THE OPEN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCG TO THE WHOLE WORLD THEIR TE INTI. AND WHILE THE RT OF THE WORLD IS SLOW G TO TERMS WH THE RIGHTS OF THE LGBT MUNY, THERE ARE THOSE THAT HAVE OPENLY EMBRACED THEM AND PROVID A SAFE HAVEN FOR THOSE WHO RELISH EQUAL RIGHTS REGARDLS OF SEXUAL PREFERENC OR ORIENTATN. INED, THE UNTRI AND CI HAVE PROVID REFUGE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FACED RIDICULE AND NMNATN THEIR OWN UNTRI AND CI.WHILE ON THE WHOLE, THE WORLD IS A MUCH MORE AMENABLE TO GAY VISORS THAN ED TO BE, THERE ARE CERTA STATNS WHERE GAYS FEEL MORE FORTABLE AND WELE THAN OTHERS. THIS ARTICLE FOC ON TEN TOP STATNS THAT AREN’T JT GAY IENDLY; THEY ACTIVELY ENURAGE GAY VISORS AND GO ALL OUT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE BT TIME EVER.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? SAN FRANCIS IS UALLY THE THE PLACE MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY IS THE GAY PAL IF ASKED, BUT IF PENDS HOW YOU FE PAL. WE REARCHED THE HIGHT GAY MUNI PER PA, BUT EVEN THE DATA FOUND IS OUTDATED AND NOT PERFECT. THE REARCH N BE BASED ON PER PA, BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT ALWAYS OPEN AND HONT WHEN SURVEYED.REARCH HAS ALSO BEEN RRIED OUT BY HOW ‘GAY IENDLY’ CI ARE WHICH IS MUCH MORE MEASURABLE.WHAT IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE USA?THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPA (HRC) NS A YEARLY MUNICIPAL EQUALIY INXCI ARE RANKED BY:NON-DISCRIMATN LAWS MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT POLICI CLIVENS OF CY SERVIC, LAW ENFORCEMENT (CLUDG HATE CRIM REPORTG) MUNICIPAL LEARSHIP ON MATTERS OF EQUALYTHOUGH THE MA NTENRS LIKE SAN FRANCIS, NEW YORK ARE HIGHT RANKED, THERE ARE MANY OTHER CI THAT DO VERY WELL UNR THE ABOVE CRERIA. WELL DONE PHEONIX, ORLANDO AND ATLANTA!!WHAT IS THE GAYT COUNTRY EUROPE?ACRDG TO REARCH, GERMANY HAS THE LARGT LGBT MUNY EUROPE, 7.4% OF GERMANS SAID THEY INTIFIED WH LGBT.ACRDG TO RABOW EUROPE THE BT UNTRY TERMS OF GAY IENDLY LEGISLATN MALTA!BT GAY CI THE WORLD (ACRDG TO )

Of urse, the Danish enomy and fancial astcture are one of the bt Europe and has been the blueprt for other enomi the are also an exceptnal array of gay-iendly cktail bars and boutique acmodatn that are pecially signed for same-sex partnerships.

One n always try Café Intime, Osr Bar and Café, Vela, and Jsie at Jolene, jt to name a the tourism partment of Denmark aptly puts s advertisg mpaigns, Copenhagen is where you make iends, fall love, and make tly lastg memori regardls of whether you’re gay or not. For the bt openly gay tablishments, head to Queer Wt as has an excg array of bs, f, bars, rtrants, and galleri owned and managed by gays and may not have been the first regnizg same-sex partnerships, but Toronto n hold the distctn of extendg the equaly bate to clu queer dividuals. 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.

THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT

Image ptn, Mr Castro told Carmen Lira that he had not paid enough attentn to the treatment of homosexualsFil Castro has said that he is ultimately rponsible for the persecutn suffered by homosexuals Cuba after the revolutn of former print told the Mexin newspaper La Jornada that there were moments of great jtice agast the gay muny.

What was surprisg, to at least, was the relatively low percentage of hoeholds that reported to the Cens as gay San Francis — only got thkg, if the gayt cy the untry has a gay populatn that small, how small mt the gay populatn be across Ameri?

The bottom of the overall list (25-50) is no surprise as a bunch of Midwtern stat and the South populate the bottom half (At least people don’t report livg same sex hoeholds there, we’d image the% of the populatn that is gay is pretty nsistent everywhere).

FIL CASTRO TAK BLAME FOR PERSECUTN OF CUBAN GAYS

One leadg thor said the Gay and lbian culture is as much a part of New York’s basic inty as yellow bs, high-ris, and Broadway theater New York Cy was home to the 1969 Stonewall Rts at the Greenwich Village Inn, loted the gay district of Manhattan. The were a seri of spontaneo and sometim vlent protts agast the New York Cy police, which the gay muny felt was discrimatg agast them, sce the 50s and 60s, gays were not weled to many protts led to gay activist anizatns beg formed New York, and a year later, the world’s first gay pri march and celebratns were held New York York Cy also has the largt transgenr populatn the Uned Stat, timated at 50, 000 people, ncentrated Manhattan and Queens.

Portland is also one of the few spots the world where LGBT (and straight) upl have easy accs to surrogacy, IUI, IUF and egg donatnHow We Calculated The Gayt Stat In Ameri Per Capa For 2020We’ve been rankg ci for over three years now and we always start our quts for data the same manner — as stroll through the Amerin Communy, as we expected given that we’ve already wrten on the topic of gay plac several time, we knew they wouldn’t time we were directed to table B11009 om the 2014-2018 5yr ACS which reports on same sex unmarried looked at the followg two creria:Unmarried-partner: Male hoeholr and male partnerUnmarried-partner: Female hoeholr and female partnerNext, we summed them up for each state and divid by the total number of hoeholds the stat. { first}} n take pri s rankg this year as the gayt state the you’re thkg of tryg to move to gay muny, then stick to a, if that isn’t the rds, there’s always a big cy close by wh a gayborhood or two that’ll wele you ’s a quick look at the least Gay stat on the list:WyomgMontanaMississippiFor more readg, check out:Bt Stat In AmeriBt Plac To Live In AmeriDetailed List Of The Gayt Stat In Ameri For 2020RankState% Gay1Nevada0.

"But… I'm jt lookg around at my own iends and who are also gay and lbian and they're leavg the neighborhood, " The Castro's roots wh the gay rights movement began after World War II, when workg class fai moved out and gay men moved . SEE ALSO: US rtor gay and transgenr health protectns reversal of Tmp-era policy District 8 Supervisor Rafael Menlman says 's important to strike a balance between matag the Castro's cultural inty while welg non-gays and straight fai. The Office for Natnal Statistics has llected data between 2013 and 2015 on the UK's gay, lbian and bisexual populatnA flag held up to celebrate gay pri central LondonBra's 'gay pals' have been revealed after sexual inty was analysed by the Office of Natnal Statistics.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

We liked the Rabow Honor Walk which featur bronze, siwalk plaqu that honor Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgen personali like Spanish poet Feri Garcia Lor, Freddie Mercury, Keh Harg, Amerin dis star Sylvter, Osr Wil, Virgia Wolf, Ameri poet and wrer Jam Baldw, Tennsee Williams, Frida Khalo, Allen Gsberg and many more. Otherwise, the siwalks and the streets leadg off to the downtown were nearly serted; there were no spectators to watch this hor, s outlandish stum, march to the summer— was 1978—timat of the gay populatn of San Francis ranged om seventy-five thoand to a hundred and fifty thoand.

If the oft-ced figure of a hundred thoand was more or ls rrect, that meant that this cy of fewer than seven hundred thoand people approximately one out of every five adults and perhaps one out of every three or four voters was gay.

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

It was, after all, the third year the mayor had gone to a drag ball the civic program my prs k showed that there were a hundred and thirty-eight ntgents the para, and that wh a few exceptns, such as Straights for Gay Rights and the San Francis Commissn on the Stat of Women, all of them reprented gay anizatns of one sort or another. Wh the program, was possible to sort the anizatns to certa tegori: polil anizatns, human-rights groups, profsnal associatns, social-service anizatns, ethnic-mory groups, relig anizatns, llege groups, out-of-town ntgents (such as the Napa Gay People’s Coaln), aternal anizatns (such as transsexuals and bisexuals for gay rights), sports groups, and mercial enterpris. The para anizers, however, had chosen to mix up all the groups, so the actual orr of the para might have e om the pag of Cl Lé the time our tck turned onto Market Street, I was too late to see the head of the para: the Gay Amerin Indian ntgent, followed by Disabled Gay People and Friends, and then by a nety-piece marchg band and the gay polil lears of the cy.

To the expert observers on my tck, most of the spectators appeared to be majory of San Francisns uld ntue to ignore the growg gay populatn their midst part bee the cy was still centralized, s rintial neighborhoods a seri of ethnic villag: black, Hispanic, Irish, Italian, Che.

Yet this mory, beg fed by sire alone, materialized full only once a year, on Gay Freedom time to time durg the slow march up Market Street, me to me to see the gay para as the unfurlg of a municipal dream sequence—the clowns, the drag queens, and the men their leather sus beg the fantastic imagery of the cy’s llective unnsc. New York and Los Angel had their gay areas, but the Castro was unique: was the first settlement built by gay nizens of the Castro were overwhelmgly male, but ocsnally a crowd of men on the street you would see two or three young women drsed jeans or jumpsus. Both seemed to be crowds of the sixti returned—only now both of them were next day, June 26, 1978, the San Francis Chronicle reported that two hundred and forty thoand people had turned out for the annual Gay Freedom Day Para.

WHERE IS THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD? TEN FABULO CONTENRS… ?

Hay, who was then married, met Rowland and Hull Los Angel 1950 and asked them to jo him creatg an anizatn whose aim would be to raise the nscns of homosexuals and take polil actn on behalf of what he fed as an opprsed cultural mory. The headquarters moved om Los Angel to San Francis, and 1955 two other San Francisns, Del Mart and Phyllis Lyon, found a sister anizatn they lled the Dghters of two “homophile” anizatns, as they were known, did not, of urse, create the homosexual populatn San Francis; rather, the reverse was te.

) Though gay history remas largely anecdotal until the neteen-fifti, is clear that the homosexual populatn creased after the Send World War, when homosexual soldiers and sailors mobilized the cy took a look at the wateront and cid not to return to Kansas Cy and Duluth. In any se, there were some thirty homosexual bars the cy the early sixti, when the new crackdown proximate e of this crackdown was a charge ma 1959 by a mayoral ndidate that the cumbent mayor had allowed “sex viat” to tablish their natnal headquarters the cy. Police harassment was often feroc: the crackdown of the early sixti, most of the bars were closed (some temporarily, some permanently), and hundreds of gay men and women were picked up each year, often simply for dancg together or holdg hands.

CERTALY THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD - THE CASTRO

The gay liberatnists, however, were largely llege stunts, a generatn younger than most of the members of the Mattache Society, and a large proportn of them were volved wh the other radil movements of the sixti rather than wh the homophile groups. In jt a few years, the movement did “change the nscns” of young gay men and women across the untry: not jt the lleg but the high schools; not jt the ci but the small towns; and among those who otherwise red nothg for radil polics.

There were no reliable statistics, but the movement was clearly natnal, and many ci was on a sle to be of some signifince to cy planners and the early seventi, San Francis seemed to be a logil place for movement activists to settle; not only was there a large and fairly open homosexual muny but San Francis was the place where gay liberatn had s longt and probably s strongt roots.

) In 1971, Richard Hongisto, a civil-rights and anti-war activist, who was the San Francis Police Department, was elected sheriff of San Francis County; on takg office, he gave a great al of attentn to improvg relatns between the gay populatn and the police. It was unr the stewardship of the liberals that San Francis polics gaed s reputatn for many gay immigrants me to San Francis durg the neteen-seventi is difficult to say exactly, for they me a flood of other young immigrants, most of them whe, most of them sgle, themselv shaken loose om their home towns by the natnwi shift om an dtrial to a postdtrial enomy.

BRA'S 'GAY PALS' REVEALED - FD OUT WHERE YOUR PART OF THE UK RANKS

At a party that Maley had at his hoe after the gay para, I met, among others, Randy Shilts, then a rrponnt for the lol public-televisn statn, KQED, and the only openly gay major-media journalist town; Peter Adair, a documentary filmmaker, whose latt film, “Word Is Out, ” explored the liv of twenty-six gay men and women om several generatns; Toby Marotta, a Harvard-traed social scientist, who was dog a study of gay htlers for a policy rearch stute and wrg a history of gay liberatn New York; and Jim Rivaldo, a polil nsultant, who wh his partner, Dick Pabich, had worked on the Harvey Milk mpaigns.

They had equated homosexualy, as Toby Marotta wrote, wh “a world of eccentric bachelors and effemate characters, of unsavory public sex scen and dgy bars and steam baths”—a shadowy world of directn and nflict, guilt and tragedy. Foster had received a dishonorable discharge om the Army; Goodste had been fired as vice-print of a bank; Stok had been mted to a mental stutn and given electroshock therapy (and had later studied law orr to fight for gay rights).

A GAY GUI TO THE CASTRO

His speech marked a turng pot for the movement natnally, bee permted homosexuals to claim that, for the first time, a mastream polil party regnized homosexuals as a mory wh legimate grievanc and claims to equaly before the 1972, therefore, Foster, Stok, and their lleagu had the bt of crentials to reprent “the gay vote. Along the way, he gaed support om the Teamsters, the Firefighters Unn, the Buildg and Constctn Tras Council lols, and small bsmen, but the end his ma supporters were the thoands upon thoands of young gay men settlg the many rpects, of urse, the young men did not differ very much om the olr generatn of gay immigrants makg up Foster and Stok’ nstuency.

” Ten days later, when Vice-Print Walter Mondale me to Goln Gate Park to addrs a rally on the subject of human rights, Milk and a number of his supporters picketed the rally and heckled Mondale for not speakg about gay rights. Foster and Stok—whatever Milk said of them—had long ago accepted the basic tes of gay lib, and wh the help of the liberals they had already ma such chang the cy that Milk had a relatively short agenda of gay-rights ems to take to Cy Hall. Between them, the olr and the younger immigrants were troducg the ncepts of gay liberatn to fields far more ristant to change than cy the early seventi, John Schmidt, a San Francis surance broker, left the big pany he had been workg for to start his own firm.

Established the pths of the savgs-and-Ioan prsn of 1980 on two ln dollars scraped together om sixteen hundred shareholrs, the Atlas Savgs & Loan Associatn ma an annual prof of a ln dollars three years the seventi, a great many gay bsmen and women followed much the same pattern, startg travel agenci, hotels, fancial servic, and so on, that were tailored to a gay clientele. ” He then formed a ngregatn San Francis; had no rabbi—a learned layman had wrten the lurgy, and the ngregants took turns performg the servic—but now had two hundred and fifty members, most of whom, Pechter said, had e back to Judaism only bee of gay Catholics San Francis had done much the same thg. Havg abandoned the Juo-Christian tradn as sentially and unalterably sexist, they were rearchg other tradns and disverg a host of female spirs and a great gree, gay men—and, to a lser gree, gay women—were buildg themselv a world apart om the rt of the cy.

LONDON GAY DISTRICT: SOHO

” It was the sphere of relatnships, my iends felt, that gay men were leadg the way for the rt of the society—there and the sphere of sexual 1978, the Castro had bee the most active cisg strip the cy, and perhaps the untry.

Even then, over forty per cent of the whe mal terviewed (and a third of the black mal) said that they had had at least five hundred sexual partners; twenty-eight per cent said that they had had over a extent of the sexual ee-for-all the Castro surprised gay women as much as anyone else. Acrdg to the Ksey Instute rearchers, for example, over half of the gay whe femal they terviewed said they had had ls than ten sexual partners; most of the gay women they talked to rarely cised and rarely had sual sex; they tend to be monogamo, serially. Acrdg to gay therapists I spoke wh, a major problem for gay men often lay velopg timate relatnships; gay women often had the reverse of that problem their relatnships were generally so close and so emotnally tense that even the unhappit of upl would have difficulty separatg.