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The Castro: The Story of San Francisco's Best-Known LGBTQ+ Neighborhood

Description

Author

Gerard Koskovich and Jen Reck

Publisher URL

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Castro.html?id=uu2Z0QEACAAJ

https://castrolgbtq.org/

Funded and published by the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District, this extensively illustrated booklet is based on original research using archives, oral history interviews, and primary and secondary sources to trace the emergence of one of the world's most famous gayborhoods back to the early 1950s. The text discusses the creation of private and public space, community building, cultural production and political activism by LGBTQ people in the neighborhood. At the same time, the authors analyze external opposition from anti-LGBTQ forces including the state and conservative social structures. They also examine internal struggles over exclusion, discrimination and belonging within the gay culture of the Castro — and survey the impact of City policy, gentrification and demographic shifts in the neighborhood to the present day.