The Castro Fog Discussion at SF GLBT Historical Society Museum August 21
| Speaking Of: A Rountable on Queer History & Today |
| THE CASTRO FOG |
| While every city’s neighborhoods change, few have experienced such thorough erasure from collective memory as San Francisco’s original gayborhoods. The gender-nonconforming stage acts of the Barbary Coast made North Beach home to some of the city’s earliest queer spaces. The Tenderloin was ground zero for the Gay Liberation Front and remains a hub for trans activism and culture. Polk Street hosted the discos of Sylvester, the drunken tales of Tennessee Williams, and more than a hundred queer-owned bookstores, clothing shops, bathhouses, and bars. So why do we only talk about The Castro? Join Unspeakable Vice’s Shawn Sprocket in conversation with Dr. Nan Alamilla Boyd, Marga Gomez, and Carolina Osoria as they discuss these often forgotten histories—and consider the reasons that have caused them to fade from public memory. General Admission: $15 Society Members: Free! |
| This program is part of Speaking Of, a new quarterly series from the GLBT Historical Society and Unspeakable Vice Walking Tours, bringing historians, researchers, and the community together to explore today’s questions through the lens of the past. |
