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JOAQU CASTRO: PROVISNS FOR GAY COUPL COULD KILL IMMIGRATN BILL
"It was immediately apparent to me, " Fraga says, "that they had an unrstandg of polics that was eper than any other llege sophomor I'd e across.
“Well, jt didn't seem to be as gay as ed to be, ” he said. Which rais the qutn: Is the Castro gettg ls gay?
While the Castro might look as gay as ever, the rabow explosn on the streets vers up a changg neighborhood that’s home to fewer and fewer gay people.
IS THE CASTRO GETTG LS GAY?
Many of the neighborhood's gay rints have been priced out recent years. “It's gone om beg a gay village to beg a tourist statn for people around the world who want to e here and experience a ltle b of the gay, ” says Don Romburg, an LGBTQ historian who moved to the Castro the 1990s after llege. The Castro and the gay liberatn movement gaed speed together, creatg a more fully realized neighborhood than any of s precsors.