GLBT History Museum: The Castro: The Story of San Francisco’s Best-Known LGBTQ+ Neighborhood

$10 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members

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How did the world-renowned Castro neighborhood come to be known as the most prominent “gayborhood” in San Francisco? How do we trace the evolution and transformation of Eureka Valley, a sleepy, Irish Catholic residential neighborhood to the Castro as a center of LGBTQ+ activism, business, and community in the Bay Area?

Authors Jen Reck and Gerard Koskovich present their new booklet, The Castro: The Story of San Francisco’s Best-Known LGBTQ+ Neighborhood. They will be joined by Tina V. Aguirre, director of the Castro LGBTQ+ Cultural District, and Devin McGeehan Muchmore, managing reference archivist at the GLBT Historical Society, who’ll discuss the roles of their organizations in bringing the project to fruition.

The Castro traces the history of this celebrated “gayborhood” back to the 1950s, focusing on LGBTQ+ community-building, cultural production and political engagement; on forces of opposition that targeted the neighborhood for attack; and on struggles around diversity, exclusion and belonging within the community itself. Copies of the publication will be available for purchase and signing.