Gay Economic Engine
In the 1960s to 1970s, Polk Street emerged as a gay economic engine.
Polk Street History Project, 1950s-2010s, by Joey Plaster
Polk Street’s history through the lens of neighborhood change in the early twenty-first century. Polk Street was San Francisco’s premier gay male center in the 1960s and 1970s. First published on OutHistory in March 2009; updated most recently in October 2012.