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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_(San_Francisco)" title="Castro (San Francisco) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Castro (San Francisco)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_(bahin_nga_lungsod)" title="Castro (bahin nga lungsod) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Castro (bahin nga lungsod)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_(San_Francisco)" title="Castro (San Francisco) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Castro (San Francisco)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardal_Castro" title="Ardal Castro – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Ardal Castro" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castro" title="The Castro – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="The Castro" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_(San_Francisco)" title="Castro (San Francisco) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Castro (San Francisco)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Kastro" title="La Kastro – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="La Kastro" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_(San_Frantzisko)" title="Castro (San Frantzisko) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Castro (San Frantzisko)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Castro" title="Le Castro – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Le Castro" 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data-title="הקסטרו" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kastro_rajons" title="Kastro rajons – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Kastro rajons" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_(San_Francisco)" title="Castro (San Francisco) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Castro (San Francisco)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E9%80%9A%E3%82%8A" title="カストロ通り – 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class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Castro_street_theatre.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Castro Street, with the Castro Theatre on the left"><img alt="Castro Street, with the Castro Theatre on the left" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Castro_street_theatre.JPG/250px-Castro_street_theatre.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Castro_street_theatre.JPG/375px-Castro_street_theatre.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Castro_street_theatre.JPG/500px-Castro_street_theatre.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="2816" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Castro Street, with the <a href="/wiki/Castro_Theatre" title="Castro Theatre">Castro Theatre</a> on the left</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Nickname: <div class="ib-settlement-nickname 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style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Location_map_San_Francisco_Central.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Castro District is located in San Francisco"><img alt="Castro District is located in San Francisco" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Location_map_San_Francisco_Central.png/250px-Location_map_San_Francisco_Central.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Location_map_San_Francisco_Central.png/375px-Location_map_San_Francisco_Central.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Location_map_San_Francisco_Central.png/500px-Location_map_San_Francisco_Central.png 2x" data-file-width="780" data-file-height="742" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:65.634%;left:44.673%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Castro District"><img alt="Castro District" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Castro District</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within Central San Francisco</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output 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Castro">José Castro</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Board_of_Supervisors" title="San Francisco Board of Supervisors">Supervisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rafael_Mandelman" title="Rafael Mandelman">Rafael Mandelman</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/California%27s_17th_State_Assembly_district" title="California's 17th State Assembly district">Assemblymember</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Matt_Haney" title="Matt Haney">Matt Haney</a> (<a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">D</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-swd_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swd-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/California%27s_11th_State_Senate_district" class="mw-redirect" title="California's 11th State Senate district">State Senator</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Scott_Wiener" title="Scott Wiener">Scott Wiener</a> (<a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">D</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-swd_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swd-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/California%27s_11th_congressional_district" title="California's 11th congressional district">U. S. Rep.</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> (<a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">D</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1.36 km<sup>2</sup> (0.526 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">1.36 km<sup>2</sup> (0.526 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">12,064</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">8,900/km<sup>2</sup> (23,000/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC-8" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC-8">UTC-8</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone" title="Pacific Time Zone">PST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC-7" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC-7">UTC-7</a> (PDT)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ZIP_code" class="mw-redirect" title="ZIP code">ZIP codes</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">94110, 94114</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan" title="North American Numbering Plan">Area codes</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Area_codes_415_and_628" title="Area codes 415 and 628">415/628</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Castro District</b>, commonly referred to as <b>the Castro</b>, is a neighborhood in <a href="/wiki/Eureka_Valley_(San_Francisco)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eureka Valley (San Francisco)">Eureka Valley</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>. The Castro was one of the first <a href="/wiki/Gay_village" title="Gay village">gay neighborhoods</a> in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Having transformed from a working-class neighborhood through the 1960s and 1970s, the Castro remains one of the most prominent symbols of <a href="/wiki/Lesbian" title="Lesbian">lesbian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gay" title="Gay">gay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bisexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Bisexual">bisexual</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender">transgender</a> (<a href="/wiki/LGBTQ" title="LGBTQ">LGBTQ</a>) activism and events in the world. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Location">Location</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_District,_San_Francisco&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Location"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Castro_District,_San_Francisco" title="Special:EditPage/Castro District, San Francisco">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>San Francisco's <a href="/wiki/Gay_village" title="Gay village">gay village</a> is mostly concentrated in the business district that is located on Castro Street from <a href="/wiki/Market_Street_(San_Francisco)" title="Market Street (San Francisco)">Market Street</a> to 19th Street. It extends down Market Street toward Church Street and on both sides of the Castro neighborhood from Church Street to Eureka Street. Although the greater gay community was, and is, concentrated in the Castro, many gay people live in the surrounding residential areas bordered by <a href="/wiki/Corona_Heights,_San_Francisco" title="Corona Heights, San Francisco">Corona Heights</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Mission_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Mission District">Mission District</a>, <a href="/wiki/Noe_Valley_(San_Francisco)" class="mw-redirect" title="Noe Valley (San Francisco)">Noe Valley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Twin_Peaks_(San_Francisco)" title="Twin Peaks (San Francisco)">Twin Peaks</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Haight-Ashbury" title="Haight-Ashbury">Haight-Ashbury</a> neighborhoods. Some consider it to include <a href="/wiki/Duboce_Triangle" class="mw-redirect" title="Duboce Triangle">Duboce Triangle</a> and Dolores Heights, which both have a strong LGBTQ presence. </p><p>Castro Street, which originates a few blocks north at the intersection of Divisadero and Waller Streets, runs south through Noe Valley, crossing the 24th Street business district and ending as a continuous street a few blocks farther south as it moves toward the <a href="/wiki/Glen_Park,_San_Francisco" title="Glen Park, San Francisco">Glen Park</a> neighborhood. It reappears in several discontinuous sections before ultimately terminating at Chenery Street, in the heart of Glen Park. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_District,_San_Francisco&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jose_Castro_signed.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Jose_Castro_signed.jpg/170px-Jose_Castro_signed.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Jose_Castro_signed.jpg/255px-Jose_Castro_signed.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Jose_Castro_signed.jpg/340px-Jose_Castro_signed.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2422" data-file-height="3231" /></a><figcaption>The Castro is named after <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Castro" title="José Castro">José Castro</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Californio" class="mw-redirect" title="Californio">Californio</a> politician who served as <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Alta_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Alta California">Governor of Alta California</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Castro Street was named after <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Castro" title="José Castro">José Castro</a> (1808–1860), a <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">Californian</a> leader of Mexican opposition to U.S. rule in California in the 19th century, and <a href="/wiki/Alcalde" title="Alcalde">alcalde</a> of <a href="/wiki/Alta_California" title="Alta California">Alta California</a> from 1835 to 1836.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The neighborhood known as the Castro, in the district of Eureka Valley, was created in 1887 when the <a href="/wiki/Market_Street_Railway_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Market Street Railway Company">Market Street Railway Company</a> built a line linking Eureka Valley to downtown. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Castro_Street_Pedcrossing_with_Rainbow_Flag_Colour.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Castro_Street_Pedcrossing_with_Rainbow_Flag_Colour.JPG/220px-Castro_Street_Pedcrossing_with_Rainbow_Flag_Colour.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Castro_Street_Pedcrossing_with_Rainbow_Flag_Colour.JPG/330px-Castro_Street_Pedcrossing_with_Rainbow_Flag_Colour.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Castro_Street_Pedcrossing_with_Rainbow_Flag_Colour.JPG/440px-Castro_Street_Pedcrossing_with_Rainbow_Flag_Colour.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Castro Street pedestrian crossing with rainbow flag color</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CastroAnd20thStreetInSanFranciscosCastroDistrict.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/CastroAnd20thStreetInSanFranciscosCastroDistrict.jpg/220px-CastroAnd20thStreetInSanFranciscosCastroDistrict.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/CastroAnd20thStreetInSanFranciscosCastroDistrict.jpg/330px-CastroAnd20thStreetInSanFranciscosCastroDistrict.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/CastroAnd20thStreetInSanFranciscosCastroDistrict.jpg/440px-CastroAnd20thStreetInSanFranciscosCastroDistrict.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Corner of 20th and Castro Streets</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1891, <a href="/wiki/Alfred_E._Clarke_Mansion#Alfred_E._Clarke" title="Alfred E. Clarke Mansion">Alfred E. Clarke</a> built his mansion at the corner of Douglass and Caselli Avenue at 250 Douglass which is commonly referenced as the <a href="/wiki/Alfred_E._Clarke_Mansion" title="Alfred E. Clarke Mansion">Caselli Mansion</a>. It survived the <a href="/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake" title="1906 San Francisco earthquake">1906 earthquake</a> and fire which destroyed a large portion of San Francisco. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Late_19th_century_Finnish_settlement">Late 19th century Finnish settlement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_District,_San_Francisco&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Late 19th century Finnish settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/California_Gold_Rush" class="mw-redirect" title="California Gold Rush">California Gold Rush</a> and in its aftermath, a substantial <a href="/wiki/Finnish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish people">Finnish</a> population settled in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Maria_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maria-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Maria_-_11%_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maria_-_11%-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finnish Club No. 1 was established in the Castro District of San Francisco in 1882. Soon after, two "Finnish Halls" were erected nearby. One was located at the corner of 24th Street and Hoffman Street. The other hall was located on Flint Street, on the "Rocky Hill" above Castro, an area densely populated by Finns at the time, consequently nicknamed "Finn Town". </p><p>In 1899, the First Finnish Lutheran Church was founded on 50 Belcher Street, in what then was considered part of the Eureka Valley district of San Francisco, but what is located on the outskirts of what today is best known as the Castro District. Next to it, on September 17, 1905, the cornerstone was laid for the Danish St. Ansgar Church at 152 Church Street, between Market Street and Duboce Avenue.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1964, St. Ansgar merged with First Finnish Lutheran Church. The name for the united church, <a href="/wiki/St._Francis_Lutheran_Church" title="St. Francis Lutheran Church">St. Francis Lutheran Church</a>, was derived from San Francisco. </p><p>Before the <a href="/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake" title="1906 San Francisco earthquake">1906 San Francisco earthquake</a>, nearly all the children attending the McKinley School (now McKinley Elementary School) at 1025 14th Street (at Castro) were Finnish. Following the earthquake, a large number of <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finns</a> from San Francisco and elsewhere moved to <a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley</a>, where a Finnish community had been established already before the earthquake.<sup id="cite_ref-Lutheran_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lutheran-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The brick and wood frame of the St. Francis Lutheran Church building survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and then was used for several months as an infirmary. Following the earthquake, the same year, <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finns</a> founded the Lutheran Church of the Cross in <a href="/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley</a>, at University Avenue, where the Lutheran congregation still operates today.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1910</span>, a bathhouse called <a href="/wiki/Finnila%27s_Finnish_Baths" title="Finnila's Finnish Baths">Finnila's Finnish Baths</a> began serving customers in the Castro District, at 9 Douglass Street. Its opening as an official business serving the general public took place in 1913. In 1919, the business moved to 4032 17th Street, a half block west from the busy Castro Street. In 1932, the business moved again, now to 2284 Market Street. In 1986, after having been stationed in the Castro District for over seven decades, the business moved the final time, now to 465 Taraval Street in the San Francisco's <a href="/wiki/Sunset_District,_San_Francisco" title="Sunset District, San Francisco">Sunset District</a>, where it continued as Finnila's Health Club, serving women only.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Contest_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Contest-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jeffrey_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jeffrey-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Matti_Finnila_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matti_Finnila-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Finnila_UC_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Finnila_UC-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Finnila_UC_July2_2010_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Finnila_UC_July2_2010-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-City_Arts_Monthly_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-City_Arts_Monthly-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-San_Francisco_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-San_Francisco-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Northern_California_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Northern_California-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bob_Damron_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bob_Damron-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite public outcry and attempts to prevent the closing of the popular <a href="/wiki/Finnila%27s_Finnish_Baths" title="Finnila's Finnish Baths">Finnila's</a> Market Street bathhouse, the old bathhouse building was demolished by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Finnila" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Finnila">Alfred Finnila</a> soon after the farewell party held in the end of December 1985. Today, the Finnila family owns the new <i>Market & Noe Center</i> building at the location of the old bathhouse, in the corner of Market and Noe Streets.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Contest_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Contest-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Change_of_character">Change of character</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_District,_San_Francisco&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Change of character"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1910 on, the Castro District of San Francisco and some of the surrounding areas were known by the term <i>Little Scandinavia</i>, because of the large number of the residents in the area originating from <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finnish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Danish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Swedish</a> ancestry. </p><p>The 1943 novel <i>Mama's Bank Account</i> by <a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Forbes" title="Kathryn Forbes">Kathryn Forbes</a> focused on a <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norwegian</a> family living in the area in the 1910s. Forbes' book served as the inspiration for John Van Druten's 1944 play <i><a href="/wiki/I_Remember_Mama_(play)" title="I Remember Mama (play)">I Remember Mama</a></i>. The play was adapted to a Broadway theater production in 1944; to a movie in 1948; to a one-hour <i><a href="/wiki/Lux_Radio_Theatre" title="Lux Radio Theatre">Lux Radio Theatre</a></i> presentation on August 30, 1948;<sup id="cite_ref-Pittsburgh_Press_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pittsburgh_Press-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to a CBS <i><a href="/wiki/Mama_(American_TV_series)" title="Mama (American TV series)">Mama</a></i> television series running from 1949 until 1957; and to a Broadway <a href="/wiki/I_Remember_Mama_(musical)" title="I Remember Mama (musical)">musical</a> in 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Mama's Bank Account</i> reflected a (then) Eureka Valley neighborhood, where for generations Norwegians worshiped at the Norwegian Lutheran Church at 19th and Dolores streets, and met for fraternal, social events, and Saturday night dances at Dovre Hall, 3543 18th Street, now <a href="/wiki/The_Women%27s_Building" class="mw-redirect" title="The Women's Building">the Women's Building</a>. </p><p>The Cove on Castro used to be called The Norse Cove at the time. The Scandinavian Seamen's Mission operated for a long time on 15th Street, off Market Street, just around the corner from the <a href="/wiki/Swedish-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish-American">Swedish-American</a> Hall, which remains in the district. In the 1920s – during <a href="/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States" title="Prohibition in the United States">prohibition</a> – the downstairs of the Swedish-American Hall served as a speak-easy, one of many in the area. "Unlicensed saloons" were known as <i>speak-easies</i>, according to an 1889 newspaper.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors".<sup id="cite_ref-oed-speakeasy_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oed-speakeasy-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Scandinavian-style <a href="/wiki/Timber_framing" title="Timber framing">"half-timber"</a> construction can still be seen in some of the buildings along Market Street, between Castro and Church Streets. A restaurant called Scandinavian Deli operated for decades on Market Street, between Noe and Sanchez Streets, almost directly across the street from <a href="/wiki/Finnila%27s_Finnish_Baths" title="Finnila's Finnish Baths">Finnila's</a>. </p><p>Receiving an influx of <a href="/wiki/Irish_Americans" title="Irish Americans">Irish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italian_Americans" title="Italian Americans">Italian</a> and other immigrants in the 1930s, the Castro gradually became an ethnically mixed <a href="/wiki/Working_class_in_the_United_States" title="Working class in the United States">working-class</a> neighborhood, and it remained so until the mid-1960s. There was originally a <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system" title="San Francisco cable car system">cable car</a> line with large double-ended cable cars that ran along Castro Street from Market Street to 29th St., until the tracks were dismantled in 1941 and the cable car line was replaced by the 24 MUNI bus. The Castro is at the end of the straight portion of the Market Street thoroughfare, and a mostly residential area follows Market Street as it curves and rises up and around the Twin Peaks mountains. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="LGBTQ_community">LGBTQ community</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_District,_San_Francisco&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: LGBTQ community"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Same-Sex_Couples_in_San_Francisco_(2017-2021).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Same-Sex_Couples_in_San_Francisco_%282017-2021%29.png/220px-Same-Sex_Couples_in_San_Francisco_%282017-2021%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Same-Sex_Couples_in_San_Francisco_%282017-2021%29.png/330px-Same-Sex_Couples_in_San_Francisco_%282017-2021%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Same-Sex_Couples_in_San_Francisco_%282017-2021%29.png/440px-Same-Sex_Couples_in_San_Francisco_%282017-2021%29.png 2x" data-file-width="4485" data-file-height="4281" /></a><figcaption>Map of same-sex couples in San Francisco</figcaption></figure> <p>The U.S. military discharged thousands of gay servicemen from the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_theater_of_World_War_II" title="Pacific Ocean theater of World War II">Pacific theatre</a> in San Francisco during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> (early 1940s) because of their sexuality. Many settled in the Bay Area, San Francisco and <a href="/wiki/Sausalito,_California" title="Sausalito, California">Sausalito</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Nalepa2008_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nalepa2008-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In San Francisco, an established gay community had begun in numerous areas including <a href="/wiki/Polk_Street" title="Polk Street">Polk Street</a> (which used to be regarded as the city's gay center from the 1950s to the early 1980s<sup id="cite_ref-:0_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), the <a href="/wiki/Tenderloin,_San_Francisco" title="Tenderloin, San Francisco">Tenderloin</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_of_Market,_San_Francisco" title="South of Market, San Francisco">South of Market</a>. The 1950s saw large numbers of families moving out of the Castro to the suburbs in what became known as the "<a href="/wiki/White_flight" title="White flight">White flight</a>", leaving open large pockets of real estate and creating appealing locations for gay purchasers. The Missouri Mule first opened in 1935 by Norwegian Immigrant Hans K Lund and would find its place in San Francisco's history becoming a proud icon of the LGBTQ community following its reopening in 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-Haggerty2000_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haggerty2000-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Castro's age as a gay mecca began during the late 1960s with the <a href="/wiki/Summer_of_Love" title="Summer of Love">Summer of Love</a> in the neighboring Haight-Ashbury district in 1967. The two neighborhoods are separated by a steep hill, topped by Buena Vista Park. The hippie and free love movements had fostered communal living and free society ideas including the housing of large groups of people in hippie communes. Androgyny became popular with men even in full beards as gay hippie men began to move into the area. The 1967 gathering brought tens of thousands of middle-class youth from all over the United States to the Haight, which saw its own exodus when well-organized individuals and collectives started to view the Castro as an oasis from the massive influx. Many of the hippies had no way to support themselves or places to shelter. The Haight became drug-ridden and violent, chasing off the gay population, who looked for a more stable area to live.<sup id="cite_ref-Higgs2002_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Higgs2002-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The gay community created an upscale, fashionable urban center in the Castro District in the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-Sterling2010_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sterling2010-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many San Francisco gays also moved there in the years around 1970 from what was then the most prominent <a href="/wiki/Gay_neighborhood" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay neighborhood">gay neighborhood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polk_Gulch" class="mw-redirect" title="Polk Gulch">Polk Gulch</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> because large <a href="/wiki/Victorian_house" title="Victorian house">Victorian houses</a> were available at low rents or available for purchase for low down payments when their former middle-class owners had fled to the suburbs.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harvey_Milk_with_Audrey_Milk_1973.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A color photograph of Milk with long hair and handlebar moustache with his arm around his sister-in-law, both smiling and standing in front of a storefront window showing a portion of a campaign poster with Milk's photo and name" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Harvey_Milk_with_Audrey_Milk_1973.jpg/220px-Harvey_Milk_with_Audrey_Milk_1973.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Harvey_Milk_with_Audrey_Milk_1973.jpg/330px-Harvey_Milk_with_Audrey_Milk_1973.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Harvey_Milk_with_Audrey_Milk_1973.jpg/440px-Harvey_Milk_with_Audrey_Milk_1973.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="391" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Milk" title="Harvey Milk">Harvey Milk</a>, here with his sister-in-law in front of <a href="/wiki/Castro_Camera" title="Castro Camera">Castro Camera</a> in 1973, had been changed by his experience with the <a href="/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s" title="Counterculture of the 1960s">counterculture of the 1960s</a>. His store was used as his campaign headquarters and remains a tourist destination.</figcaption></figure> <p>By 1973, <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Milk" title="Harvey Milk">Harvey Milk</a>, who would become the most famous resident of the neighborhood, opened a camera store, <a href="/wiki/Castro_Camera" title="Castro Camera">Castro Camera</a>, and began political involvement as a gay activist, further contributing to the notion of the Castro as a gay destination. Some of the culture of the late 1970s included what was termed the "<a href="/wiki/Castro_clone" title="Castro clone">Castro clone</a>", a mode of dress and <a href="/wiki/Personal_grooming" title="Personal grooming">personal grooming</a> that exemplified <a href="/wiki/Butch_and_femme" title="Butch and femme">butchness</a> and masculinity of the working-class men in construction—tight denim jeans, black or sand combat boots, tight T-shirt or, often, an <a href="/wiki/Izod" title="Izod">Izod</a> crocodile shirt, possibly a red plaid flannel outer shirt, and usually sporting a mustache or full beard—in vogue with the gay male population at the time, and which gave rise to the nickname "Clone Canyon" for the stretch of Castro Street between 18th and Market Streets. </p><p>The area was heavily impacted by the <a href="/wiki/HIV" title="HIV">HIV</a>/<a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">AIDS</a> crisis of the 1980s. Beginning in 1984, city officials began a crackdown on <a href="/wiki/Public_bathing" title="Public bathing">bathhouses</a> and launched initiatives that aimed to prevent the spread of AIDS. Kiosks lining Market Street and Castro Street now have posters promoting <a href="/wiki/Safe_sex" title="Safe sex">safe sex</a> and testing right alongside those advertising online dating services. </p><p>In 2019, <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Board_of_Supervisors" title="San Francisco Board of Supervisors">San Francisco Board of Supervisors</a> member <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Mandelman" title="Rafael Mandelman">Rafael Mandelman</a> authored an ordinance to create the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District; the ordinance was passed unanimously.<sup id="cite_ref-sfbaytimes-30jun2019_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sfbaytimes-30jun2019-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kpix-26jun2019_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kpix-26jun2019-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Attractions">Attractions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_District,_San_Francisco&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Attractions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Castro-stores.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Castro-stores.jpg/220px-Castro-stores.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Castro-stores.jpg/330px-Castro-stores.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Castro-stores.jpg/440px-Castro-stores.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2032" data-file-height="921" /></a><figcaption>Stores on Castro near the intersection with 18th Street. <a href="/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(gay_movement)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rainbow flag (gay movement)">Rainbow flags</a>, which are commonly associated with <a href="/wiki/Gay_pride" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay pride">gay pride</a>, are hung as banners on streetlights along the road.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>One of the more notable features of the neighborhood is <a href="/wiki/Castro_Theatre" title="Castro Theatre">Castro Theatre</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Movie_palace" title="Movie palace">movie palace</a> built in 1922 and one of San Francisco's premier movie houses. </p><p>18th and Castro is a major intersection in the Castro, where many historic events, marches, and protests have taken and continue to take place. </p><p>A major cultural destination in the neighborhood is the <a href="/wiki/GLBT_History_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="GLBT History Museum">GLBT History Museum</a>, which opened for previews on December 10, 2010, at 4127 18th St. The grand opening of the museum took place on the evening of January 13, 2011. The first full-scale, stand-alone museum of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in the United States (and only the second in the world after the <a href="/wiki/Schwules_Museum" title="Schwules Museum">Schwules Museum</a> in Berlin), the GLBT History Museum is a project of the <a href="/wiki/GLBT_Historical_Society" title="GLBT Historical Society">GLBT Historical Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/F_Market" class="mw-redirect" title="F Market">F Market heritage streetcar line</a> turnaround at Market and 17th-streets where the Jane Warner city parklet sits. Across Castro street is the Harvey Milk Plaza in honor of its most famous resident with its iconic giant flag pole with an oversized rainbow flag, symbol of the LGBT community. Below street level is the main entrance to the <a href="/wiki/Castro_Street_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Castro Street Station">Castro Street Station</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Muni_Metro" title="Muni Metro">Muni Metro</a> subway station and a multitiered park. Milk's camera store and campaign headquarters which were at 575 Castro has a memorial plaque and mural on the inside of the store, formerly housing the <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign" title="Human Rights Campaign">Human Rights Campaign</a> Action Center and Store, it now houses an LGBTQ+ arts store. There is a smaller mural above the sidewalk on the building showing Milk looking down on the street fondly. </p><p>Across Market Street from Harvey Milk Plaza, and slightly up the hill, is the <a href="/wiki/Pink_Triangle_Park" title="Pink Triangle Park">Pink Triangle Park</a> – 17th Street at Market, a city park and monument named after the <a href="/wiki/Pink_triangle" title="Pink triangle">pink triangles</a> forcibly worn by <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Holocaust" class="mw-redirect" title="Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust">gay prisoners persecuted by</a> <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">the Nazis</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Harvey%27s_(bar)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harvey's (bar) (page does not exist)">Harvey's</a> was formerly the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Elephant_Walk_(bar)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Elephant Walk (bar) (page does not exist)">Elephant Walk</a>, raided by police after the <a href="/wiki/White_Night_Riots" class="mw-redirect" title="White Night Riots">White Night Riots</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Harvey's_Marks_10_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harvey's_Marks_10-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Gay_Pride_2000_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Gay_Pride_2000-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Twin_Peaks_Tavern" title="Twin Peaks Tavern">Twin Peaks Tavern</a>, the first gay bar in the city, and possibly in the United States, with plate glass windows to fully visibly expose patrons to the public, is located at the intersection of Market and Castro.<sup id="cite_ref-Queer_Sites_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Queer_Sites-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Hartford_Street_Zen_Center" title="Hartford Street Zen Center">Hartford Street Zen Center</a> is also located in the Castro, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Most_Holy_Redeemer_Church,_San_Francisco" title="Most Holy Redeemer Church, San Francisco">Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church</a>, 100 Diamond Street.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Special events, parades and street fairs that are held in the Castro include the <a href="/wiki/Castro_Street_Fair" title="Castro Street Fair">Castro Street Fair</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Dyke_March" class="mw-redirect" title="Dyke March">Dyke March</a>, the famed <a href="/wiki/Halloween_in_the_Castro" title="Halloween in the Castro">Halloween in the Castro</a> (which was discontinued in 2007 due to street violence), <a href="/wiki/Pink_Saturday" title="Pink Saturday">Pink Saturday</a> (discontinued in the Castro in 2016),<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Frameline_Film_Festival" title="Frameline Film Festival">San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival</a>. </p><p>An LGBTQ Walk of Fame, the <a href="/wiki/Rainbow_Honor_Walk" title="Rainbow Honor Walk">Rainbow Honor Walk</a>, was installed in August 2014 with an inaugural twenty sidewalk bronze plaques representing past LGBTQ icons in their field who continue to serve as inspirations. The walk was originally planned to coincide with the business district of the Castro and eventually include 500 bronze plaques. </p><p>The main business section of Castro Street from Market to 19th Street was under reconstruction and repaving in 2014 to address a number of neighborhood concerns. The area has heavy vehicular traffic, as well as many visitors. As part of the work, the sidewalks were widened and new trees were planted. Additionally, 20 historical cement etchings covering from the inception to the area being settled to the 2010s sweeping gay marriage movement victories were installed in September 2014. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Castro_Street_History_Walk">Castro Street History Walk</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_District,_San_Francisco&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Castro Street History Walk"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A separate sidewalk installation, the <b>Castro Street History Walk</b> (CSHW), is a series of twenty historical fact plaques about the neighborhood—ten from pre-1776 to the 1960s before the Castro became known as a <a href="/wiki/Gay_ghetto" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay ghetto">gay neighborhood</a>, and ten "significant events associated with the <a href="/wiki/Queer" title="Queer">queer</a> community in the Castro"—contained within the 400 and 500 blocks of the street between 19th and Market streets.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were installed at the same time as the inaugural twenty RHW plaques. The CSHW goes in chronological order starting at <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Milk_Plaza" title="Harvey Milk Plaza">Harvey Milk Plaza</a> at Market Street, up to 19th Street, and returning on the opposite side of Castro Street.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The $10,000 CSHW was paid for by the Castro Business District (CBD) which "convened a group of local residents and historians to work with Nicholas Perry, a planner and urban designer at the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Planning_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco Planning Department">San Francisco Planning Department</a> who worked on the sidewalk-widening project and lives in the Castro" to develop the facts.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated2_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each fact was required to be about the neighborhood or the surrounding <a href="/wiki/Eureka_Valley,_San_Francisco" title="Eureka Valley, San Francisco">Eureka Valley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The facts are limited to 230 characters, and were installed in pairs along with a single graphic reminiscent of the historic <a href="/wiki/Castro_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Castro Theater">Castro Theater</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_42-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="CSHW_facts">CSHW facts</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_District,_San_Francisco&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: CSHW facts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>pre-1776, the native <a href="/wiki/Yelamu" title="Yelamu">Yelamu</a>, a tribelet of <a href="/wiki/Ohlone_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Ohlone people">Ohlone people</a> from the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northern_California" title="Northern California">Northern California</a>. "The western people" was used by east bay Ohlone to describe the Ohlone people living on the San Francisco Peninsula.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1776: <a href="/wiki/Juan_Bautista_de_Anza" title="Juan Bautista de Anza">Juan Bautista de Anza </a>'s establishes <a href="/wiki/Mission_Dolores" class="mw-redirect" title="Mission Dolores">Mission Dolores</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1846: The last Mexican <a href="/wiki/Alcalde" title="Alcalde">Alcalde</a> of <a href="/wiki/Yerba_Buena,_California" title="Yerba Buena, California">Yerba Buena</a> (San Francisco) is granted the area later named as Eureka Valley.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1854: <a href="/wiki/John_M._Horner" title="John M. Horner">John Horner</a> buys some of the ranch.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1895: Transit improvements, including the Castro St. cable car, spur settlement by working class Irish, German, and Scandinavian families in the late 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1900: <a href="/wiki/Most_Holy_Redeemer_Church,_San_Francisco" title="Most Holy Redeemer Church, San Francisco">Most Holy Redeemer Church</a> is founded<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1907: Music/event venue Swedish American Hall opens.<sup id="cite_ref-planetcastro.wordpress.com_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-planetcastro.wordpress.com-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1918: The <a href="/wiki/Twin_Peaks_Tunnel" title="Twin Peaks Tunnel">Twin Peaks Tunnel</a> is established linking the neighborhood with <a href="/wiki/West_Portal" class="mw-redirect" title="West Portal">West Portal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1922: Well-known local architect <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Pflueger" class="mw-redirect" title="Timothy Pflueger">Timothy Pflueger</a>'s first-designed theater, the <a href="/wiki/Castro_Theatre" title="Castro Theatre">Castro Theatre</a>, opens.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1935: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans_K_Lund&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans K Lund (page does not exist)">Hans K Lund</a> the original owner of the <a href="/wiki/Missouri_Mule" class="mw-redirect" title="Missouri Mule">Missouri Mule</a> opens for business.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1943: Area resident <a href="/wiki/Norwegian-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian-American">Norwegian-American</a> author <a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Forbes" title="Kathryn Forbes">Kathryn Forbes</a>'s novel, <a href="/wiki/Mama%27s_Bank_Account" class="mw-redirect" title="Mama's Bank Account">Mama's Bank Account</a> uses Castro Street as its setting.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1953: After 18 years in business <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans_K._Lund&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans K. Lund (page does not exist)">Hans K. Lund</a> and wife <a href="/wiki/Margaret" title="Margaret">Margaret</a> would sell the <a href="/wiki/Missouri_Mule" class="mw-redirect" title="Missouri Mule">Missouri Mule</a> to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Berkeley_police_officer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berkeley police officer (page does not exist)">Berkeley police officer</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wayne_Knutila&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wayne Knutila (page does not exist)">Wayne Knutila</a> and <a href="/wiki/Del_Martin_and_Phyllis_Lyon" title="Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon">Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon</a> lesbian <a href="/w/index.php?title=Power-couple&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Power-couple (page does not exist)">power-couple</a> establish a Castro Street home.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1963: Marks the second sale of The <a href="/wiki/Missouri_Mule" class="mw-redirect" title="Missouri Mule">Missouri Mule</a> which would close its doors for just long enough to expand, rebrand and reopen its doors later that same year choosing to keep the bars original established name . AS the Castro's first "openly" gay bar. An influx of LGBTQ residents and businesses led by the neighborhood's first "openly" gay bar, <a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Missouri_Mule&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Missouri Mule (page does not exist)">The Missouri Mule</a>, transform the area into the Castro we know today.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1972: <a href="/wiki/Twin_Peaks_Tavern" title="Twin Peaks Tavern">Twin Peaks Tavern</a>, the U.S.'s first gay bar to have open-glass windows, opens.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1978: The community mourns the <a href="/wiki/Milk-Moscone_assassinations" class="mw-redirect" title="Milk-Moscone assassinations">Milk-Moscone assassinations</a> by gathering by the thousands in the Castro for a candlelight march.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1979: <a href="/wiki/White_Night_Riots" class="mw-redirect" title="White Night Riots">White Night Riots</a> take place May after <a href="/wiki/Dan_White" title="Dan White">Dan White</a> is not convicted of <a href="/wiki/First-degree_murder" class="mw-redirect" title="First-degree murder">first-degree murder</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Milk-Moscone_assassinations" class="mw-redirect" title="Milk-Moscone assassinations">Milk-Moscone assassinations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-planetcastro.wordpress.com_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-planetcastro.wordpress.com-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1981: Community activist <a href="/wiki/Bobbi_Campbell" title="Bobbi Campbell">Bobbi Campbell</a> aka Sister Florence Nightmare, flyers the pharmacy with an alert about "gay cancer".<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1987: <a href="/wiki/AIDS_Memorial_Quilt" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS Memorial Quilt">AIDS Memorial Quilt</a> has its first home courtesy of activist <a href="/wiki/Cleve_Jones" title="Cleve Jones">Cleve Jones</a> on Market Street.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1998: The <a href="/wiki/Bay_Area_Reporter" title="Bay Area Reporter">Bay Area Reporter</a> famously runs banner headline—"No Obits" after thousands of HIV/AIDS deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-ebar.com_44-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ebar.com-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="LGBT_tourism">LGBT tourism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_District,_San_Francisco&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: LGBT tourism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Castrosanfranciscoflag.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Castrosanfranciscoflag.jpg/220px-Castrosanfranciscoflag.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Castrosanfranciscoflag.jpg/330px-Castrosanfranciscoflag.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Castrosanfranciscoflag.jpg/440px-Castrosanfranciscoflag.jpg 2x" data-file-width="849" data-file-height="713" /></a><figcaption>Pride flag at the southwest corner of Market and Castro Streets</figcaption></figure> <p>San Francisco has a large and thriving tourist economy due to ethnic and cultural communities such as <a href="/wiki/Chinatown,_San_Francisco" title="Chinatown, San Francisco">Chinatown</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Beach,_San_Francisco" title="North Beach, San Francisco">North Beach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haight-Ashbury" title="Haight-Ashbury">Haight-Ashbury</a> and the Castro. The Castro is a site of economic success that brings in capital all year round with many events catered to the gay community along with everyday business. </p><p>The Castro is a "thriving marketplace for all things gay" meaning the area caters to people who identify with LGBT culture and other associated meanings to the word gay.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are cafes, the Castro Theater, and many businesses that cater to or openly welcome LGBT consumers. These establishments make the Castro an area of high spending and lead to high tourist traffic. In addition to the city's locals, people travel to visit the shops and restaurants as well as the events that take place, such as the <a href="/wiki/Castro_Street_Fair" title="Castro Street Fair">Castro Street Fair</a>. Events such as the fair drum up business for the community and bring in people from all over the nation who visit solely for the atmosphere the Castro provides. People who do not necessarily feel comfortable expressing themselves in their own community have the freedom to travel to places such as the Castro to escape the alienation and feel accepted.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a sense of belonging and acceptance that is promoted throughout the district to accommodate non-heteronormative people that many LGBT travelers are attracted to. </p><p>The Golden Gate Business Association (GGBA) was created in 1974 to help promote the Castro as a place for tourists, but also San Francisco and LGBT businesses as a whole. The GGBA sought to gain local political power and hoped to achieve their gains through an increase in gay tourism,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the association formed the San Francisco Gay Tourism and Visitor's Bureau in 1983. The LGBT tourism industry drives and benefits the economy due to the constant influx of consumers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_District,_San_Francisco&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"<a href="/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Trillions" title="The Trouble with Trillions">The Trouble with Trillions</a>" (season 9, episode 20 of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a></i>) features <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a> learning about the area of Castro Street.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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Square</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Map of California highlighting San Francisco County"><img alt="Map of California highlighting San Francisco County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/California_county_map_%28San_Francisco_County_enlarged%29.svg/100px-California_county_map_%28San_Francisco_County_enlarged%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/California_county_map_%28San_Francisco_County_enlarged%29.svg/150px-California_county_map_%28San_Francisco_County_enlarged%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/California_county_map_%28San_Francisco_County_enlarged%29.svg/200px-California_county_map_%28San_Francisco_County_enlarged%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="621" data-file-height="733" 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