Shaping SF: Wide Open Town

Author Nan Alamilla Boyd journeys with us through the 20th century San Francisco of gay men and lesbians, examining the culture that developed around the bar scene and homophile activism when the “City That Knows How” became a town where anything goes. Boyd’s Wide Open Town is a vivid re-creation of bar and drag life, an absorbing portrait of central figures in the communities, and a provocative chronicling of this period in the country’s most transgressive city. Learn about early history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement prior to 1965 as we walk together along Polk Street and into the Tenderloin.

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