Like many young queers, when I first moved to San Francis I head right for the Castro. Its reputatn as a gay haven had lured me here the first place. But over time, I found my home plac…
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Its reputatn as a gay haven had lured me here the first place. From the 1950s through the early 1980s, Polk was the gay center of San Francis.
In this pre-AIDS, pro-love era, Polk Street was a boomg gay center, filled wh clubs, bars, bathho, unrground and above ground sex clubs, and ontle gay rights groups that laid the foundatn for today’s lol queer muny. In short, Polk started , the area bears ltle remblance to the gay hub that once was.
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Once a week hosted an amatr strip night, where young guys, jt off the Greyhound b om out of town, shed their cloth for the lol gays. The first Gay Pri ParaIn 1972, San Francis’s first Gay Pri para was held on Polk Street.
The para route danced s way down Polk, om Aquatic Park, through fancier and straighter Rsian Hill, and through the gay ghetto to Civic Center.
Jump’ Frog (Polk and Broadway)This popular Polk Street gay bar, which opened 1960, was one of the first on the rridor. The Jump’ Frog was featured a 1964 Life magaze article about the “homosexual.