Gay Pri Com to Castro Valley | Castro Valley, CA Patch

Contents:

• CASTRO VALLEY IS GAY
• THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT
• GAY PRI COM TO CASTRO VALLEY
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CASTRO VALLEY, CA
• IS THE CASTRO GETTG LS GAY?
• PHOTO GALLERY: SEND ANNUAL CASTRO VALLEY GAY PRI RALLY
• GAY CENTRAL VALLEY
• GAY PRI COM TO CASTRO VALLEY
• IS THE CASTRO GETTG LS GAY?
• ALL HOG WANTED "GAY" SF BAY AREA

CASTRO VALLEY IS GAY

But I had never brought up homosexualy Castro Valley or the repercsns that beg out n e for week I posted the topic: We have talked about the racism growg up Castro Valley, but what about the homophobia? Are you gay? Did you have gay iends growg up?

Blowg up beans was a brilliant ia “Havg spent 8 years tholic school, I didn't know that there was such a thg as gay. After a prank volvg a giant n of reied beans, fireworks and a mailbox, and gettg ught, I learned that our target hoehold was gay. They thought we did bee they were gay.

THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT

I had iends '87 that we knew were gay, and others that me out after high school. I didn't realize until much later that many of the people I was iends wh om there were gay. S easy to say that’s gay or he’s a fag if that seems worlds away, but when you've known the person for years and then fd out they are gay you have to really look at how you feel and why.

” -Kim Major Thgs have changed “I graduated 2001, and NO ONE was gay my class. Of urse they were, but they uldn't e out bee of the homophobia.

My ltle brother went there 4 years later, and said he had 4 gay iends one class.

GAY PRI COM TO CASTRO VALLEY

” -Debra Marie Jss Homophob n be the closet, too“I believe that this needs to be discsed, here or anywhere, bee is an issue that affects . I know many people, gay and straight, who have been offend or hurt by thgs the Castro Valley Fom or jt around town. I've never seen anyone actually bullied for , but there's a lot of quiet homophobia here.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CASTRO VALLEY, CA

Homophob n be the closet too, seems. ” -Ellie Welsh-Ferreyra Dpe all of the posive feedback on our se, this week on Facebook a group was started lled, “Castro Valley is Gay.

” Actually the page name is “stro valley is gay. I don’t thk the people are hatefu; I thk they are merely g gay as a pejorative, and actually I believe they have every right to name their group whatever they want.

IS THE CASTRO GETTG LS GAY?

So, is that the state of gay Castro Valley? San 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 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. At the entry to this gay area fli a huge rabow flag on Harvey Milk Plaza. 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.

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.

PHOTO GALLERY: SEND ANNUAL CASTRO VALLEY GAY PRI RALLY

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.

Fally, make your way to Dolor Park, where gays, hippi, and tourists enjoy the breathtakg view of San Francis. The views exprsed here are the thor's were a few protters wh signs equatg beg gay wh perversn and s, but the atmosphere at Saturday's first-ever gay pri rally Castro Valley was largely bubbly and least a uple of hundred people joed and Castro Valley rints and gay advot and Blair Hansen at a homegrown event the senr parkg lot of Castro Valley High School. As a for the event said, "This grassroots event will feature speakers, micians and a group of people who unrstand that our gay iends, fay members, workers and neighbors serve the same love and rpect that we all wish for.

GAY CENTRAL VALLEY

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. San Francis’s gay village is most ncentrated the bs district that is loted on Castro Street om Market Street to 19th Street.

Although the greater gay muny was, and is, ncentrated the Castro many gay people live the surroundg rintial areas borred by the Missn District, Noe Valley, Tw Peaks, and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods.

Photos: Crawford Barton, Gay and Lbian Historil Society of Northern California. 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. ” A shift me durg World War II, when many soldiers me to San Francis and formed gay relatnships.

GAY PRI COM TO CASTRO VALLEY

The soldiers then stayed the cy after beg discharged for homosexualy. 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.

IS THE CASTRO GETTG LS GAY?

By 1969, there were 50 gay anizatns San Francis, and by 1973 there were 800. 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.

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.

ALL HOG WANTED "GAY" SF BAY AREA

The Castro wasn't always a gay neighborhood. 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.