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Police were often openly homophobic while, the meantime, more and more young LGBT people were movg to the cy, seekg the opportuny to be themselv. It “had been staked out years before as the homosexual high holiday, ” Shilts explas: “gays did, after all, live most of their liv behd masks. ”’ And for the rt of the eveng, at a time when was illegal even for gay people to “peaceably assemble, ” the San Francisns were ee to celebrate and roe a tremendo street party—until the clock stck midnight.
“When the hours shifted om October 31 to November 1, the iron fist of Lilly Law, ” the then-current gay slang for a policeman, “would fall aga. For the next six s, that night would be a highlight of San Francis’s gay lendars—until, 2007, when the Halloween party was ncelled by cy officials, due to overcrowdg and repeated cints of vlence. But homophob began g trouble, settg fire to gay-owned bs or lurkg at the edge of the crowd, wag to attack people they believed to be gay or lbian.
A new era of sexual openns had brought a wave of gay migratn crashg down on San Francis’s shor, ready to take to s streets. Lnched to fame the early 1970s and fluential electg Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official the cy, the Castro is fully open about s herage.