GLBT History Museum: “Castro on Fire”: A Queer Resistance Walking Tour by Unspeakable Vice
ADMISSION
$35; Museum admission included in tour
RSVP and reserve tickets here
https://events.humanitix.com/unspeakable-vice-castro-on-fire-1979-1989?c=glbt_history
The GLBT Historical Society Museum is pleased to partner with Unspeakable Vice to offer a monthly walking tour focused on the history of LGBTQIA+ resistance in the Castro neighborhood. Created by tour guide, former senior adjunct professor, and practicing designer Shawn Sprockett, Unspeakable Vice began as a close look at the queer origins of San Francisco, traversing the city’s North Beach and Barbary Coast areas to trace the history through from 1770-1960. This new tour closes a three-part story, extending Sprockett’s detailed and engaging storytelling to the Castro neighborhood.
Ten years after the White Night riots, the police came back. Meet the trans man doctors turned away, the lesbians who ran the blood drives and wards, and the community that answered a plague and two police riots with the same refusal. This tour includes a free round at the Lookout, overlooking the neighborhood you’ve just walked.
Details
Duration: about 90 minutes, plus the round afterward
Meet: GLBT Historical Society, 4127 18th Street
Ends: the Lookout, 3600 16th St at Market
Terrain: city sidewalks with one moderate hill; the Lookout is upstairs, stairs only
Ages: 21+ (free round, one per guest)
Heavy Rain: tours reschedule; your ticket transfers
Full route teasers, the people you’ll meet, and sources: unspeakablevice.tours/tours/castro-on-fire
“Castro on Fire” occurs monthly. Learn more about the tour — and the Unspeakable Vice North Beach and Tenderloin & Polk Street tours — at unspeakablevice.tours.
For the upcoming monthly “Castro on Fire” tour, book your ticket through the GLBT Historical Society by clicking the button below to support us directly!