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The words “CASTRO” shine in bright, flashing neon over this proud queer neighborhood. But get a little closer and you notice that some of the neon lights are out, and there aren’t any people around. The front of the theater seems as deserted today as it was during the COVID-19 pandemic. What gives?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theater is in a state of limbo while its new managers push to renovate the space for a mixed-use future. If their plan goes forward, The Castro wouldn’t be just for movies anymore, but also things like concerts, performances and weddings too. These plans have not been received warmly by all members of the community, who point to the theater’s historical significance as a reason to restore it, but not renovate. The fate of the space currently sits at San Francisco City Hall, where a fight for it’s future has been unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand the issue fully, we’ve first got to go back to the theater’s earliest days, because behind the boarded-up windows lie 100 years of stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The early years\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the earliest days of film, three brothers — William, Elias and George Nasser — opened a nickelodeon at 18th and Collingwood in San Francisco. This crude cinema was little more than pictures projected onto a wall, but it led the Nasser brothers to dream of a bigger space in which to entertain audiences with silent films. Before long, they’d tapped architect Timothy Pflueger to design a movie palace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro Theatre opened in 1922 on Castro Street, and Pflueger would go on to design celebrated movie theaters like the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, and iconic San Francisco cocktail lounges like the Top of the Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Castro is a bit of a grab bag of Beaux-Arts, Spanish Baroque, Renaissance, and a variety of other styles,” said queer public historian Gerard Koskovich, “including some Art Deco elements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That mix of styles creates a whimsical environment designed to transport the audience into a world of fantasy and film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Castro-Theatre-1927.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942950 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Castro-Theatre-1927.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image taken from the balcony of a classic, highly decorated movie theater.\" width=\"582\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Castro-Theatre-1927.jpg 582w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Castro-Theatre-1927-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the Castro Theatre in 1927. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, the Castro showed silent films, often accompanied by live music from a variety of instruments, most famously the Castro’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CastroTheatre/videos/san-francisco-on-castro-organ/747351313094835/\">Wurlitzer organ\u003c/a>. The Castro catered primarily to the working-class community in the Eureka Valley, then considered a distant suburb outside bustling San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those days, people expected to see a mixed program … some shorts, perhaps to see a newsreel, and then a feature,” said Koskovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8810679935&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As sound arrived in film, speakers arrived at the Castro, installed into a large, burlap-lined hole in the wall behind the square movie screen. When film went wide-screen, so did the Castro: Just a few feet in front of the original screen and proscenium, another screen was constructed, and over time the old, gold square was forgotten. It remains visible backstage at the Castro, if you can climb the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro, with its 1,400 seats, was considered small for the time period. In San Francisco alone there was competition from behemoths like the El Capitan on Mission Street; now a parking lot, the Cap had double the seats of the Castro. The Fox Theatre on Market Street (on the land now home to Fox Plaza) was dubbed “The World’s Finest Theatre” by \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle,\u003c/em> and clocked in at 4,651 seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average movie theater in 2023 has approximately 150 seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The larger movie houses like the Fox and El Capitan would show the big blockbusters or first-run pictures, while the Castro’s repertoire mostly consisted of second- or third-run pictures — films that had already played at the bigger theaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942945 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of a grand movie theater with ornate decoration. An Art Deco chandelier hangs from a vaulted ceiling. Many rows of red velvet seats lead down to an elevated stage with a curtain closed over the film screen. The lighting is low, in reds and ambers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The gay Castro\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Deindustrialization and white flight changed the makeup of the Castro through the ’50s and ’60s. Then the gay community began moving in. By all accounts, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon — a lesbian couple who became longtime community activists — were the first openly LGBTQ people to move into the Castro, arriving in 1953.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the 1950s, this declining working-class neighborhood had started to emerge as a gay enclave,” said Koskovich. The Castro’s first gay bar — called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgayhistory.com/neighborhoods/castro/castro-gay-bars/84-2/\">Missouri Mule\u003c/a> — opened in 1963. “And by the early ’70s,” said Koskovich, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5rlwVsyKXA&ab_channel=KQEDArts\">the Castro\u003c/a> was becoming very clearly marked as a gay neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mel Novikoff was the Castro Theatre’s programmer in those days, and he quickly discovered a strategy for getting the neighborhood’s rapidly growing gay community into the theater:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bringing back old film, mixing it with art house films and foreign films,” said Koskovich. This was key to understanding this emerging urban public, he added: “It was people who’d fled their dismal, monochrome hometowns and moved to San Francisco because they wanted to have a sophisticated, thrilling, cosmopolitan cultural life.” Novikoff understood that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And what emerged at the Castro Theatre,” said Koskovich, “was the fact that there were an awful lot of crazed movie queens in San Francisco. They just had to go see a double bill of \u003cem>The Women\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?\u003c/em> often dressed like their favorite characters, or dressed to mock some of the characters, often reciting along the best lines of dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the outside world, it wasn’t necessarily safe to be openly gay. But inside the Castro Theatre, gay people — mostly gay white men — felt safe to express themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977, the Castro Theatre was recognized as a beacon for the LGBTQ community when it became San Francisco’s 100th historic landmark, protecting the exterior from demolition or alteration. [baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A place of refuge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Before there were effective treatments around 1996, remaining part of the community as a person with AIDS was impossible,” Koskovich said. Close to 20,000 people died in San Francisco alone during the AIDS crisis — “the overwhelming majority of them gay men under the age of 50,” Koskovich added, with the majority of them living within two miles of the Castro District. “So imagine the impact of that epidemic, not just on the city, but on this specific neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro Theatre became a chapel to a community grieving the loss of a generation of young men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a place to go after you got done with the two memorial services for people you knew that week,” remembered Koskovich. “You could spend a couple of hours escaping to a movie, or a live show. You could bring people who were sick and they could sit calmly in a safe, secure, comfortable place and know they weren’t going to be excluded if they had signs [of AIDS], like Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions. That people weren’t going to pull away from them. They could remain part of the community that had been built there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the ’90s and 2000s, the Castro Theatre continued to grow in engagement and visibility within the LGBTQ community under the watchful eye of programmer Anita Monga. She began the era of film festivals, like Frameline, being hosted at the theater, as well as major film premieres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, the Harvey Milk biopic, \u003cem>Milk\u003c/em>, much of which takes place in the Castro, held its world premiere at the theater. In preparation for the event, the film studio funded a facelift to the Castro’s exterior, restoring it to its 1970’s glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942954 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1-800x594.jpg\" alt='Image taken at night of a glowing neon sign and marquee outside a movie theater. Posters for the movie \"Milk,\" starring Sean Penn are featured on the sign.' width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1-800x594.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atmosphere at the world premiere of ‘Milk’ at the Castro Theatre on Oct. 28, 2008, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Steve Jennings/WireImage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The future of an icon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the COVID-19 pandemic, theaters and concert venues were shuttered. Though the Castro Theatre is still owned by descendants of the original Nasser brothers, it came out of 2020 under new management, a company called Another Planet Entertainment. APE is a locally owned concert production company founded in 2003, which also manages the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Oakland’s Fox Theater and the Outside Lands festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APE announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908311/castro-theatre-to-become-live-music-and-events-venue-after-renovation\">plans to renovate\u003c/a> the Castro Theatre, which include removing the fixed movie theater-style seating, and adding tiered sections for standing-room concerts. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">film community’s reaction\u003c/a> was swift, and decisive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro Theatre Conservancy, a community organization whose mission, according to their website, is to protect the theater “as a cultural and entertainment venue for motion pictures and live performances,” announced the creation of the “Save the Castro Theatre” campaign in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942947 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A person wearing a rainbow striped sweater hold up two signs. One says \"Another Planet Sucks!\" The other says \"Save the seats.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Petrelis holds a sign that says ‘Save the Seats’ during a town hall meeting about renovations by Another Planet Entertainment at the Castro Theatre on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What followed were rallies, the online #SaveTheSeats campaign, and hundreds of chain emails sent to officials asking that the seats and their layout be specifically protected in a landmark designation for the interior of the theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Historic Preservation Commission took public comment for and against the proposed landmarking on Feb. 1, 2023, at San Francisco City Hall. More than 100 people lined up and waited hours to speak. The majority of the public comments were against any proposed changes to the Castro Theatre’s seating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://citypln-m-extnl.sfgov.org/Commissions/HPC/2_1_2023/Commission%20Packet/2022-006075DES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://citypln-m-extnl.sfgov.org/Commissions/HPC/2_1_2023/Commission%20Packet/2022-006075DES.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">HPC voted to recommend landmarking\u003c/a> the interior of the Castro Theatre, but the details are complicated. The official draft of their recommendation to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors says, “The following features are character-defining and shall be preserved or replaced in kind,” and goes on to list interior features of the theatre, including the “Vast interior auditorium volume with raked floor, aisles, and presence of seating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, it will be up to the Board of Supervisors to decide on the designation and interpretation thereof, including what that means for the existing seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the film community see APE’s proposed changes as the destruction of a cultural space. On the other side are folks who imagine a future where queer concerts play just as much of a role as queer cinema.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the city of San Francisco, or the international gay community without the Castro Theater,” said David Perry, the Castro Theatre spokesperson for APE, “The plan that Another Planet has put forward doesn’t lessen the iconic nature of the Castro. It increases its ability to become an icon for people to embrace for years to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, the iconic Castro Theatre will remain a part of the San Francisco experience for generations to come, whether as a multi-use community space, or a temple to film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A final decision on its fate could be reached by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors some time in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"No one denies the Castro's cultural importance and landmark status, but a change in management has sparked debate over the fate of its interior, specifically its seats.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700531660,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":1916},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco's Castro Theatre: A Cultural 'Temple' Facing a Fight for Its Future | KQED","description":"No one denies the Castro's cultural importance and landmark status, but a change in management has sparked debate over the fate of its interior, specifically its seats.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Food","sourceUrl":"/food/","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/EBCBFA/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC8810679935.mp3?updated=1678318796","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11942942/san-franciscos-castro-theatre-a-cultural-temple-facing-a-fight-for-its-future","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/3LeQebL\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t walk through San Francisco’s Castro District without your eyes being drawn to the towering marquee. The words “CASTRO” shine in bright, flashing neon over this proud queer neighborhood. But get a little closer and you notice that some of the neon lights are out, and there aren’t any people around. The front of the theater seems as deserted today as it was during the COVID-19 pandemic. What gives?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theater is in a state of limbo while its new managers push to renovate the space for a mixed-use future. If their plan goes forward, The Castro wouldn’t be just for movies anymore, but also things like concerts, performances and weddings too. These plans have not been received warmly by all members of the community, who point to the theater’s historical significance as a reason to restore it, but not renovate. The fate of the space currently sits at San Francisco City Hall, where a fight for it’s future has been unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand the issue fully, we’ve first got to go back to the theater’s earliest days, because behind the boarded-up windows lie 100 years of stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The early years\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the earliest days of film, three brothers — William, Elias and George Nasser — opened a nickelodeon at 18th and Collingwood in San Francisco. This crude cinema was little more than pictures projected onto a wall, but it led the Nasser brothers to dream of a bigger space in which to entertain audiences with silent films. Before long, they’d tapped architect Timothy Pflueger to design a movie palace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro Theatre opened in 1922 on Castro Street, and Pflueger would go on to design celebrated movie theaters like the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, and iconic San Francisco cocktail lounges like the Top of the Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Castro is a bit of a grab bag of Beaux-Arts, Spanish Baroque, Renaissance, and a variety of other styles,” said queer public historian Gerard Koskovich, “including some Art Deco elements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That mix of styles creates a whimsical environment designed to transport the audience into a world of fantasy and film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Castro-Theatre-1927.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942950 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Castro-Theatre-1927.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image taken from the balcony of a classic, highly decorated movie theater.\" width=\"582\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Castro-Theatre-1927.jpg 582w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Castro-Theatre-1927-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the Castro Theatre in 1927. \u003ccite>(San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, the Castro showed silent films, often accompanied by live music from a variety of instruments, most famously the Castro’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CastroTheatre/videos/san-francisco-on-castro-organ/747351313094835/\">Wurlitzer organ\u003c/a>. The Castro catered primarily to the working-class community in the Eureka Valley, then considered a distant suburb outside bustling San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those days, people expected to see a mixed program … some shorts, perhaps to see a newsreel, and then a feature,” said Koskovich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8810679935&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As sound arrived in film, speakers arrived at the Castro, installed into a large, burlap-lined hole in the wall behind the square movie screen. When film went wide-screen, so did the Castro: Just a few feet in front of the original screen and proscenium, another screen was constructed, and over time the old, gold square was forgotten. It remains visible backstage at the Castro, if you can climb the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro, with its 1,400 seats, was considered small for the time period. In San Francisco alone there was competition from behemoths like the El Capitan on Mission Street; now a parking lot, the Cap had double the seats of the Castro. The Fox Theatre on Market Street (on the land now home to Fox Plaza) was dubbed “The World’s Finest Theatre” by \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle,\u003c/em> and clocked in at 4,651 seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average movie theater in 2023 has approximately 150 seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The larger movie houses like the Fox and El Capitan would show the big blockbusters or first-run pictures, while the Castro’s repertoire mostly consisted of second- or third-run pictures — films that had already played at the bigger theaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942945 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of a grand movie theater with ornate decoration. An Art Deco chandelier hangs from a vaulted ceiling. Many rows of red velvet seats lead down to an elevated stage with a curtain closed over the film screen. The lighting is low, in reds and ambers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57657_003_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The gay Castro\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Deindustrialization and white flight changed the makeup of the Castro through the ’50s and ’60s. Then the gay community began moving in. By all accounts, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon — a lesbian couple who became longtime community activists — were the first openly LGBTQ people to move into the Castro, arriving in 1953.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the 1950s, this declining working-class neighborhood had started to emerge as a gay enclave,” said Koskovich. The Castro’s first gay bar — called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgayhistory.com/neighborhoods/castro/castro-gay-bars/84-2/\">Missouri Mule\u003c/a> — opened in 1963. “And by the early ’70s,” said Koskovich, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5rlwVsyKXA&ab_channel=KQEDArts\">the Castro\u003c/a> was becoming very clearly marked as a gay neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mel Novikoff was the Castro Theatre’s programmer in those days, and he quickly discovered a strategy for getting the neighborhood’s rapidly growing gay community into the theater:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bringing back old film, mixing it with art house films and foreign films,” said Koskovich. This was key to understanding this emerging urban public, he added: “It was people who’d fled their dismal, monochrome hometowns and moved to San Francisco because they wanted to have a sophisticated, thrilling, cosmopolitan cultural life.” Novikoff understood that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And what emerged at the Castro Theatre,” said Koskovich, “was the fact that there were an awful lot of crazed movie queens in San Francisco. They just had to go see a double bill of \u003cem>The Women\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?\u003c/em> often dressed like their favorite characters, or dressed to mock some of the characters, often reciting along the best lines of dialogue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the outside world, it wasn’t necessarily safe to be openly gay. But inside the Castro Theatre, gay people — mostly gay white men — felt safe to express themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977, the Castro Theatre was recognized as a beacon for the LGBTQ community when it became San Francisco’s 100th historic landmark, protecting the exterior from demolition or alteration. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A place of refuge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Before there were effective treatments around 1996, remaining part of the community as a person with AIDS was impossible,” Koskovich said. Close to 20,000 people died in San Francisco alone during the AIDS crisis — “the overwhelming majority of them gay men under the age of 50,” Koskovich added, with the majority of them living within two miles of the Castro District. “So imagine the impact of that epidemic, not just on the city, but on this specific neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro Theatre became a chapel to a community grieving the loss of a generation of young men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a place to go after you got done with the two memorial services for people you knew that week,” remembered Koskovich. “You could spend a couple of hours escaping to a movie, or a live show. You could bring people who were sick and they could sit calmly in a safe, secure, comfortable place and know they weren’t going to be excluded if they had signs [of AIDS], like Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions. That people weren’t going to pull away from them. They could remain part of the community that had been built there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the ’90s and 2000s, the Castro Theatre continued to grow in engagement and visibility within the LGBTQ community under the watchful eye of programmer Anita Monga. She began the era of film festivals, like Frameline, being hosted at the theater, as well as major film premieres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, the Harvey Milk biopic, \u003cem>Milk\u003c/em>, much of which takes place in the Castro, held its world premiere at the theater. In preparation for the event, the film studio funded a facelift to the Castro’s exterior, restoring it to its 1970’s glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942954 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1-800x594.jpg\" alt='Image taken at night of a glowing neon sign and marquee outside a movie theater. Posters for the movie \"Milk,\" starring Sean Penn are featured on the sign.' width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1-800x594.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-112329231-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atmosphere at the world premiere of ‘Milk’ at the Castro Theatre on Oct. 28, 2008, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Steve Jennings/WireImage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The future of an icon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the COVID-19 pandemic, theaters and concert venues were shuttered. Though the Castro Theatre is still owned by descendants of the original Nasser brothers, it came out of 2020 under new management, a company called Another Planet Entertainment. APE is a locally owned concert production company founded in 2003, which also manages the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Oakland’s Fox Theater and the Outside Lands festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>APE announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908311/castro-theatre-to-become-live-music-and-events-venue-after-renovation\">plans to renovate\u003c/a> the Castro Theatre, which include removing the fixed movie theater-style seating, and adding tiered sections for standing-room concerts. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">film community’s reaction\u003c/a> was swift, and decisive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro Theatre Conservancy, a community organization whose mission, according to their website, is to protect the theater “as a cultural and entertainment venue for motion pictures and live performances,” announced the creation of the “Save the Castro Theatre” campaign in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11942947 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A person wearing a rainbow striped sweater hold up two signs. One says \"Another Planet Sucks!\" The other says \"Save the seats.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS57720_005_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Petrelis holds a sign that says ‘Save the Seats’ during a town hall meeting about renovations by Another Planet Entertainment at the Castro Theatre on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What followed were rallies, the online #SaveTheSeats campaign, and hundreds of chain emails sent to officials asking that the seats and their layout be specifically protected in a landmark designation for the interior of the theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Historic Preservation Commission took public comment for and against the proposed landmarking on Feb. 1, 2023, at San Francisco City Hall. More than 100 people lined up and waited hours to speak. The majority of the public comments were against any proposed changes to the Castro Theatre’s seating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, the \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://citypln-m-extnl.sfgov.org/Commissions/HPC/2_1_2023/Commission%20Packet/2022-006075DES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://citypln-m-extnl.sfgov.org/Commissions/HPC/2_1_2023/Commission%20Packet/2022-006075DES.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">HPC voted to recommend landmarking\u003c/a> the interior of the Castro Theatre, but the details are complicated. The official draft of their recommendation to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors says, “The following features are character-defining and shall be preserved or replaced in kind,” and goes on to list interior features of the theatre, including the “Vast interior auditorium volume with raked floor, aisles, and presence of seating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, it will be up to the Board of Supervisors to decide on the designation and interpretation thereof, including what that means for the existing seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the film community see APE’s proposed changes as the destruction of a cultural space. On the other side are folks who imagine a future where queer concerts play just as much of a role as queer cinema.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t imagine the city of San Francisco, or the international gay community without the Castro Theater,” said David Perry, the Castro Theatre spokesperson for APE, “The plan that Another Planet has put forward doesn’t lessen the iconic nature of the Castro. It increases its ability to become an icon for people to embrace for years to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, the iconic Castro Theatre will remain a part of the San Francisco experience for generations to come, whether as a multi-use community space, or a temple to film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A final decision on its fate could be reached by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors some time in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11942942/san-franciscos-castro-theatre-a-cultural-temple-facing-a-fight-for-its-future","authors":["11749"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_29992","news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_19133","news_30494","news_3252","news_31456","news_27626","news_20004","news_28548"],"featImg":"news_11942948","label":"source_news_11942942"},"news_11922643":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11922643","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11922643","score":null,"sort":[1660671130000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"everyone-was-in-tears-your-memories-of-movies-joy-and-community-at-the-castro-theatre","title":"'Everyone Was in Tears': Your Memories of Movies, Joy and Community at the Castro Theatre","publishDate":1660671130,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>There are big changes ahead for San Francisco’s legendary Castro Theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Live music promoters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">Another Planet Entertainment have announced plans to renovate the venue\u003c/a>, part of which includes removing many of the theater’s iconic red velvet chairs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">Read more about this complex saga from KQED Arts & Culture.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what the future holds, it’s the end of an era for the beloved Castro Theatre. So we wanted to create a space to highlight some of your memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked you: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall#castrotheatre\">What was your most memorable experience at the Castro?\u003c/a> From first dates and childhood memories to unforgettable movies and an overwhelming sense of community, you delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for some of the stories you sent us. And if you didn't get the chance to share your own memories and you want to do so, you can still \u003ca href=\"#castrotheatre\">send us your thoughts on the Castro Theatre here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These submissions have been lightly edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worked at the Castro from 1983-1986. Most memorable experience? \u003cstrong>Getting married on the mezzanine level in August 1986.\u003c/strong> Being broke, I approached my manager about getting married in the theater. He agreed as long as we were done before the Saturday matinee. — \u003cem>Linda Absher\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=arts_13917362 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Castro.MAIN_-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hayao Miyazaki’s \"Spirited Away\" at the Castro was the most amazing movie experience of my life.\u003c/strong> The energy was incredible, and I remember how Japanese speakers were laughing before people reading the subtitles caught up. A representative of Studio Ghibli was there, I think it was \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Suzuki_(producer)\">[Toshio] Suzuki\u003c/a>, and I hope he went back and told Miyazaki how much the audience loved his film. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Fantasia,\" 1979. The organist played first, then the movie started, and my date brought out a joint!\u003c/strong> I had never tried marijuana before — I am sure that this \"altered\" my movie experience! — \u003cem>Anonymous \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of red velvet seats in a dimmed theater.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I've spent so many nights at the Castro over the decades, but one of the most memorable was a screening of \"Milk.\" Cleve Jones was there along with others from the production and those who informed it. Those of us who remembered Harvey Milk were in the audience wondering whether the Sean Penn portrayal would fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of the film, there was a scene showing the candlelight march after the assassination moving down Market St. from the Castro.\u003cstrong> Everyone in the theater was in tears. Including myself.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A room full of strangers together in that space, feeling the same emotions. The Castro Theatre was the center of our experience. \u003cstrong>It was a moment for our community and in our lives that I will never forget.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Fred Bove\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \"Blade Runner\" director's cut [1992] came out, I went alone to see it at the Castro. Rain was just starting when I went into the red-and-gold, well-loved, slightly shabby Art Deco interior. I'd seen the original release and a couple of video versions; this cut's subtle changes made it that much more enthralling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My head full of neon and rain, and the Bradbury building where Roy and Pris met their ends, I walked out of the theater to find the sky opened and pouring, light and reflections everywhere, water coursing down my trench coat as I walked up Castro Street. \u003cstrong>My favorite moment of immersive cinema ever.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Alana Dill\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The frontage of the Castro Theatre, shot from a low angle below.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Castro District on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s and '80s it was wondrous to sit in the Castro Theatre, enjoy the Art Deco artistry and listen to the organ player before the retro movies began. \u003cstrong>Most of all we relished the feeling of what it must have been like in gone-by eras. \u003c/strong>Seeing the stage intact below the screen, even though the stage was no longer used, allowed me to imagine what a burlesque hall must have felt like, and how audiences during the early days of film must have felt, experiencing the transition from burlesque to film entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our current era we are transitioning yet again, but if we were to radically change the Castro Theatre we would never be able to truly preserve the full legacy of showbiz and we couldn’t physically relive its former eras. \u003cstrong>If the theater can’t be profitable, let’s establish a fund to subsidize it as we would any important museum or archive.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Marti Schoen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well. \u003cstrong>I don't remember which movie it was but I had sex in the balcony once, which I feel quite proud of now!\u003c/strong> Favorite movie experience was probably \"Wuthering Heights.\" And of course many rounds of Frameline. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The proscenium of the Castro Theatre, shot from below. The lighting is purple and gold.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proscenium of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a kid growing up in the Castro (born in 1944) my wife spent Saturday in the theater. Twenty cents to get in, a nickel for candy and two movies, newsreel, serial, cartoons. \u003cstrong>A day’s worth of entertainment. Family nights in the balcony. Lots of memories, all good.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Rose Shuck \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highlight: \"Nights of Cabiria,\" the great Fellini movie, with a beautiful print, maybe eight years ago. \u003cstrong>The whole, packed-house audience almost held its breath at the ending.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community moments: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. The first \"BAHFest\" (Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses) in a science festival. Realizing in an \"aha!\" moment that the Jewish Film Festival was where I would run into \u003cem>all\u003c/em> my Jewish acquaintances and friends if I attended enough shows. — \u003cem>David Grosof\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Watching \"Miracle on 34th Street\" with a sold-out crowd of movie lovers.\u003c/strong> The way everyone booed the evil company psychiatrist, then the place erupted in cheers when the bags of letters to Santa were poured out on the judge’s desk!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been to rock concerts and weddings and whatever else they are thinking this absolutely historic movie theater will be used for, and \u003cstrong>I have never experienced a thrill like it or a greater sense of shared joy.\u003c/strong> This place is the heart of a great community and if they tear it up it will be a travesty. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees pick up free sodas and popcorn before the town hall to discuss planned renovations at the theater on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first feature film I produced premiered at the Castro as part of the Frameline Film Festival. \u003cstrong>I will never forget my excitement as I watched the historic venue fill up with strangers coming to see my movie.\u003c/strong> My heart fills with joy thinking about it. — \u003cem>Ashley Hillis \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was around 1992 and I had just begun a fiery relationship with a woman living in Oakland, while I was living in Berkeley. We met at the Castro Muni station and went to the theater to see the animated film version of \"Fritz the Cat,\" based on R. Crumb's comic strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It was my first time to the Castro Theatre and its breathtaking grandeur was matched by my ecstatic joy from having just fallen in love.\u003c/strong> Frankly, I remember almost nothing from the movie, but the way the theater was so romantic and such a conducive environment for us cuddling in our bliss is indelibly etched on my mind. That romance didn't last the summer, but even 30 years later I remember the magnificence of the Castro Theatre like it was yesterday. — \u003cem>Gifford Hartman \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years back, there was a minister in Oakland that announced the end of the world was on a certain upcoming date. Said date fell on the screening of George Cukor’s \"The Women\" at the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I thought to myself, \"If indeed it is the end of the world, I can think of no better place to be with my LGBT folk.\"\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Carlos Chavarin\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922670\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group who identified themselves as queer youth from the Castro wear shirts that spell out 'Save the Seats' during a town hall meeting about planned renovations by Another Planet Entertainment at the theater on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"castrotheatre\">\u003c/a>Share your own thoughts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"9857\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/9857.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From memories of romances past to moments of togetherness in an iconic LGBTQ+ space, here are just a few of the stories you sent us about your favorite moviegoing experiences at the Castro Theatre.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1660685352,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1409},"headData":{"title":"'Everyone Was in Tears': Your Memories of Movies, Joy and Community at the Castro Theatre | KQED","description":"From memories of romances past to moments of togetherness in an iconic LGBTQ+ space, here are just a few of the stories you sent us about your favorite moviegoing experiences at the Castro Theatre.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11922643 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11922643","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/08/16/everyone-was-in-tears-your-memories-of-movies-joy-and-community-at-the-castro-theatre/","disqusTitle":"'Everyone Was in Tears': Your Memories of Movies, Joy and Community at the Castro Theatre","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11922643/everyone-was-in-tears-your-memories-of-movies-joy-and-community-at-the-castro-theatre","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are big changes ahead for San Francisco’s legendary Castro Theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Live music promoters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">Another Planet Entertainment have announced plans to renovate the venue\u003c/a>, part of which includes removing many of the theater’s iconic red velvet chairs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall\">Read more about this complex saga from KQED Arts & Culture.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of what the future holds, it’s the end of an era for the beloved Castro Theatre. So we wanted to create a space to highlight some of your memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked you: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13917362/castro-theatre-seating-renovation-town-hall#castrotheatre\">What was your most memorable experience at the Castro?\u003c/a> From first dates and childhood memories to unforgettable movies and an overwhelming sense of community, you delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read on for some of the stories you sent us. And if you didn't get the chance to share your own memories and you want to do so, you can still \u003ca href=\"#castrotheatre\">send us your thoughts on the Castro Theatre here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These submissions have been lightly edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worked at the Castro from 1983-1986. Most memorable experience? \u003cstrong>Getting married on the mezzanine level in August 1986.\u003c/strong> Being broke, I approached my manager about getting married in the theater. He agreed as long as we were done before the Saturday matinee. — \u003cem>Linda Absher\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13917362","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Castro.MAIN_-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hayao Miyazaki’s \"Spirited Away\" at the Castro was the most amazing movie experience of my life.\u003c/strong> The energy was incredible, and I remember how Japanese speakers were laughing before people reading the subtitles caught up. A representative of Studio Ghibli was there, I think it was \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Suzuki_(producer)\">[Toshio] Suzuki\u003c/a>, and I hope he went back and told Miyazaki how much the audience loved his film. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Fantasia,\" 1979. The organist played first, then the movie started, and my date brought out a joint!\u003c/strong> I had never tried marijuana before — I am sure that this \"altered\" my movie experience! — \u003cem>Anonymous \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922228\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg\" alt=\"Rows of red velvet seats in a dimmed theater.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/015_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I've spent so many nights at the Castro over the decades, but one of the most memorable was a screening of \"Milk.\" Cleve Jones was there along with others from the production and those who informed it. Those of us who remembered Harvey Milk were in the audience wondering whether the Sean Penn portrayal would fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of the film, there was a scene showing the candlelight march after the assassination moving down Market St. from the Castro.\u003cstrong> Everyone in the theater was in tears. Including myself.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A room full of strangers together in that space, feeling the same emotions. The Castro Theatre was the center of our experience. \u003cstrong>It was a moment for our community and in our lives that I will never forget.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Fred Bove\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the \"Blade Runner\" director's cut [1992] came out, I went alone to see it at the Castro. Rain was just starting when I went into the red-and-gold, well-loved, slightly shabby Art Deco interior. I'd seen the original release and a couple of video versions; this cut's subtle changes made it that much more enthralling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My head full of neon and rain, and the Bradbury building where Roy and Pris met their ends, I walked out of the theater to find the sky opened and pouring, light and reflections everywhere, water coursing down my trench coat as I walked up Castro Street. \u003cstrong>My favorite moment of immersive cinema ever.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Alana Dill\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922667\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The frontage of the Castro Theatre, shot from a low angle below.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57446_003_KQEDArts_CastroTheatre_07282022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Castro District on July 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s and '80s it was wondrous to sit in the Castro Theatre, enjoy the Art Deco artistry and listen to the organ player before the retro movies began. \u003cstrong>Most of all we relished the feeling of what it must have been like in gone-by eras. \u003c/strong>Seeing the stage intact below the screen, even though the stage was no longer used, allowed me to imagine what a burlesque hall must have felt like, and how audiences during the early days of film must have felt, experiencing the transition from burlesque to film entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our current era we are transitioning yet again, but if we were to radically change the Castro Theatre we would never be able to truly preserve the full legacy of showbiz and we couldn’t physically relive its former eras. \u003cstrong>If the theater can’t be profitable, let’s establish a fund to subsidize it as we would any important museum or archive.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Marti Schoen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well. \u003cstrong>I don't remember which movie it was but I had sex in the balcony once, which I feel quite proud of now!\u003c/strong> Favorite movie experience was probably \"Wuthering Heights.\" And of course many rounds of Frameline. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The proscenium of the Castro Theatre, shot from below. The lighting is purple and gold.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57670_014_KQED_CastroTheatreInterior_08102022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proscenium of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a kid growing up in the Castro (born in 1944) my wife spent Saturday in the theater. Twenty cents to get in, a nickel for candy and two movies, newsreel, serial, cartoons. \u003cstrong>A day’s worth of entertainment. Family nights in the balcony. Lots of memories, all good.\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Rose Shuck \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highlight: \"Nights of Cabiria,\" the great Fellini movie, with a beautiful print, maybe eight years ago. \u003cstrong>The whole, packed-house audience almost held its breath at the ending.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community moments: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco. The first \"BAHFest\" (Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses) in a science festival. Realizing in an \"aha!\" moment that the Jewish Film Festival was where I would run into \u003cem>all\u003c/em> my Jewish acquaintances and friends if I attended enough shows. — \u003cem>David Grosof\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Watching \"Miracle on 34th Street\" with a sold-out crowd of movie lovers.\u003c/strong> The way everyone booed the evil company psychiatrist, then the place erupted in cheers when the bags of letters to Santa were poured out on the judge’s desk!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have been to rock concerts and weddings and whatever else they are thinking this absolutely historic movie theater will be used for, and \u003cstrong>I have never experienced a thrill like it or a greater sense of shared joy.\u003c/strong> This place is the heart of a great community and if they tear it up it will be a travesty. — \u003cem>Anonymous\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57731_013_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees pick up free sodas and popcorn before the town hall to discuss planned renovations at the theater on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first feature film I produced premiered at the Castro as part of the Frameline Film Festival. \u003cstrong>I will never forget my excitement as I watched the historic venue fill up with strangers coming to see my movie.\u003c/strong> My heart fills with joy thinking about it. — \u003cem>Ashley Hillis \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was around 1992 and I had just begun a fiery relationship with a woman living in Oakland, while I was living in Berkeley. We met at the Castro Muni station and went to the theater to see the animated film version of \"Fritz the Cat,\" based on R. Crumb's comic strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It was my first time to the Castro Theatre and its breathtaking grandeur was matched by my ecstatic joy from having just fallen in love.\u003c/strong> Frankly, I remember almost nothing from the movie, but the way the theater was so romantic and such a conducive environment for us cuddling in our bliss is indelibly etched on my mind. That romance didn't last the summer, but even 30 years later I remember the magnificence of the Castro Theatre like it was yesterday. — \u003cem>Gifford Hartman \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years back, there was a minister in Oakland that announced the end of the world was on a certain upcoming date. Said date fell on the screening of George Cukor’s \"The Women\" at the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I thought to myself, \"If indeed it is the end of the world, I can think of no better place to be with my LGBT folk.\"\u003c/strong> — \u003cem>Carlos Chavarin\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922670\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11922670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57764_039_KQED_CastroTheatreTownHall_08112022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group who identified themselves as queer youth from the Castro wear shirts that spell out 'Save the Seats' during a town hall meeting about planned renovations by Another Planet Entertainment at the theater on Aug. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"castrotheatre\">\u003c/a>Share your own thoughts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"9857","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/9857.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11922643/everyone-was-in-tears-your-memories-of-movies-joy-and-community-at-the-castro-theatre","authors":["11530"],"categories":["news_29992","news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_3252","news_31456","news_27626","news_17719","news_20004","news_701","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11922665","label":"news"},"news_11876846":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11876846","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11876846","score":null,"sort":[1622859021000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"never-take-it-down-the-original-1978-rainbow-flag-returns-to-sf","title":"‘Never Take It Down’: The Original 1978 Rainbow Flag Returns to SF","publishDate":1622859021,"format":"image","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The original 1978 rainbow flag found itself a home on Friday in the heart of San Francisco’s Castro District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What remains of the original 30 by 60 foot multi-colored flag now lives under glass at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive\u003c/a>. Executive Director Terry Beswick says the rainbow flag's design is iconic and internationally known because it represents hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People hang it in small towns and in countries where they still experience a lot of oppression, but it also has become a political statement to say that we exist, we have the right to love who we want to love and to participate as full members of society,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original 1978 Rainbow Flag returned to San Francisco on June 4, 2021. It's being housed at the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive in the city’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rainbow flag isn’t just colorful lines on a sheet. The eight rows of fabric — \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-the-rainbow-flag-become-a-symbol-of-lgbt-pride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violet, indigo, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, red, hot pink\u003c/a> — are the brain child of gay activist and artist \u003ca href=\"https://gilbertbaker.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gilbert Baker\u003c/a> who passed away in 2017. He and a crew of more than 30 people created the first rainbow flag in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea came to Baker after gay activist and politician \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/harvey-milk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvey Milk\u003c/a> told Baker the community needed a new symbol that exudes affirmation, Beswick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ezraromero/status/1400895410365886465\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were probably some drugs involved when Gilbert was on a dance floor [when] he had an epiphany about a rainbow,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Terry Beswick, GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive executive director\"]'People hang it in small towns and in countries where they still experience a lot of oppression, but it also has become a political statement to say that we exist.'[/pullquote]A year after flying in the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day celebrations, the flag was found in storage to be badly mildewed. Part of it was salvaged and it remained in Baker's care for decades. When he died in 2017, the remainder was among the boxes given to his sister. It was later passed on to his friend Charles Beal to carry in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101871889/san-francisco-and-lgbtq-pride-before-and-after-stonewall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stonewall 50\u003c/a> Parade in New York City, but at that point it wasn’t known that it was the original rainbow flag. Then in 2020, the flag was authenticated by a flag expert. The flag is now part of the Gilbert Baker Collection at the museum and is the centerpiece of an exhibition entitled \u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/performance-protest-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Performance, Protest and Politics: The art of Gilbert Baker.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beswick travelled to New York a few weeks ago to pick the flag up and brought it to San Francisco in a lavender suitcase. He cracked open the case surrounded by friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone had the idea that the rainbow, which comes from nature, just like LGBTQ people come from nature, would be a great symbol,” he said. “We take it for granted a little bit . . . but it's had these amazing consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876860\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elected officials admire the original 1978 Rainbow Flag held in a glass casing at the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive in the city’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flag has elevated LGBTQ voices and is universally understood to represent the full spectrum of the LGBTQ community. San Francisco Mayor London Breed spoke at the unveiling saying she wants San Francisco to remain a refuge for LGBTQ people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not just about LGBTQ history, and it's not just about San Francisco history,” she said. “This is American history. It's important to recognize it in a way that elevates the conversation that provides the room and the space to spread out and to see the different messages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ezraromero/status/1400893354557153284\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gilbertbaker.com/mission/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gilbert Baker Foundation\u003c/a> president and friend of the flag-maker Charles Beal said he wished Baker could have witnessed Friday's homecoming event, but that the flag continues to provide a sense of home, safety and peace for LGBTQ people around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"lgbtq\" label=\"More LGBTQ coverage\"]“It means something to a lot of people around the world and we got to never forget that,” he said. “Today in Tehran, people are running out in the streets with rainbow flags and running because they're afraid to be caught. But they're out there in his honor trying to change the planet and trying to do things that we take advantage of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A block away from museum at Castro and Market Streets flies the modern rainbow flag, which is an everlasting reminder of both the pain and joy queer people live through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Baker was alive he said “never fly it at half staff, never take it down,” Beal explained. “It means too much to too many people who don't have what we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What remains of the original 30 by 60 foot multi-colored flag now lives at the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive in San Francisco’s Castro District. The rainbow flag's iconic design has become an international symbol of hope.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1622859021,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":845},"headData":{"title":"‘Never Take It Down’: The Original 1978 Rainbow Flag Returns to SF | KQED","description":"What remains of the original 30 by 60 foot multi-colored flag now lives at the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive in San Francisco’s Castro District. 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Executive Director Terry Beswick says the rainbow flag's design is iconic and internationally known because it represents hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People hang it in small towns and in countries where they still experience a lot of oppression, but it also has become a political statement to say that we exist, we have the right to love who we want to love and to participate as full members of society,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876859\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original 1978 Rainbow Flag returned to San Francisco on June 4, 2021. It's being housed at the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive in the city’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rainbow flag isn’t just colorful lines on a sheet. The eight rows of fabric — \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-the-rainbow-flag-become-a-symbol-of-lgbt-pride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violet, indigo, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, red, hot pink\u003c/a> — are the brain child of gay activist and artist \u003ca href=\"https://gilbertbaker.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gilbert Baker\u003c/a> who passed away in 2017. He and a crew of more than 30 people created the first rainbow flag in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea came to Baker after gay activist and politician \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/harvey-milk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvey Milk\u003c/a> told Baker the community needed a new symbol that exudes affirmation, Beswick said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1400895410365886465"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“There were probably some drugs involved when Gilbert was on a dance floor [when] he had an epiphany about a rainbow,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'People hang it in small towns and in countries where they still experience a lot of oppression, but it also has become a political statement to say that we exist.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Terry Beswick, GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive executive director","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A year after flying in the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day celebrations, the flag was found in storage to be badly mildewed. Part of it was salvaged and it remained in Baker's care for decades. When he died in 2017, the remainder was among the boxes given to his sister. It was later passed on to his friend Charles Beal to carry in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101871889/san-francisco-and-lgbtq-pride-before-and-after-stonewall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stonewall 50\u003c/a> Parade in New York City, but at that point it wasn’t known that it was the original rainbow flag. Then in 2020, the flag was authenticated by a flag expert. The flag is now part of the Gilbert Baker Collection at the museum and is the centerpiece of an exhibition entitled \u003ca href=\"https://www.glbthistory.org/performance-protest-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Performance, Protest and Politics: The art of Gilbert Baker.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beswick travelled to New York a few weeks ago to pick the flag up and brought it to San Francisco in a lavender suitcase. He cracked open the case surrounded by friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone had the idea that the rainbow, which comes from nature, just like LGBTQ people come from nature, would be a great symbol,” he said. “We take it for granted a little bit . . . but it's had these amazing consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876860\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Flag-SF-3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elected officials admire the original 1978 Rainbow Flag held in a glass casing at the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archive in the city’s Castro District. \u003ccite>(Ezra David Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flag has elevated LGBTQ voices and is universally understood to represent the full spectrum of the LGBTQ community. San Francisco Mayor London Breed spoke at the unveiling saying she wants San Francisco to remain a refuge for LGBTQ people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not just about LGBTQ history, and it's not just about San Francisco history,” she said. “This is American history. It's important to recognize it in a way that elevates the conversation that provides the room and the space to spread out and to see the different messages.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1400893354557153284"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://gilbertbaker.com/mission/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gilbert Baker Foundation\u003c/a> president and friend of the flag-maker Charles Beal said he wished Baker could have witnessed Friday's homecoming event, but that the flag continues to provide a sense of home, safety and peace for LGBTQ people around the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"lgbtq","label":"More LGBTQ coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It means something to a lot of people around the world and we got to never forget that,” he said. “Today in Tehran, people are running out in the streets with rainbow flags and running because they're afraid to be caught. But they're out there in his honor trying to change the planet and trying to do things that we take advantage of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A block away from museum at Castro and Market Streets flies the modern rainbow flag, which is an everlasting reminder of both the pain and joy queer people live through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Baker was alive he said “never fly it at half staff, never take it down,” Beal explained. “It means too much to too many people who don't have what we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11876846/never-take-it-down-the-original-1978-rainbow-flag-returns-to-sf","authors":["11746"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21534","news_3252","news_1682","news_20004","news_20003","news_19345","news_6229","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11876858","label":"news"},"news_11768015":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11768015","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11768015","score":null,"sort":[1566046865000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gentrification-is-changing-iconic-gay-neighborhoods-in-l-a-and-s-f","title":"Gentrification is Changing Iconic Gay Neighborhoods in L.A. and S.F.","publishDate":1566046865,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Wedged snugly between two of the most popular gay bars on Santa Monica Boulevard is Block Party, the “gayest” store in West Hollywood, selling men’s tank tops, swimwear and short shorts, party-themed cowboy hats and everything Pride from rainbow beanie babies to vivid striped jumpsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this stretch of what is loosely considered Boystown in the historically gay city, these three doors are some of the last gay-owned and gay-oriented businesses after a steady march of mainstream restaurants, bars and other retail have moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11634601\" label=\"Bay Curious: A Changing Castro\" heroLink=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1180x882.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lost our community in the last three or four years,” said Larry Block from the sidewalk in front of his shop. Most of the other gay-owned clothing and retail owners have closed. Block opened Block Party in 2009 and has had retail businesses in West Hollywood for more than three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to new restaurants and bars up and down the street that operate out of the former sites of gay men’s clothing stores. One of the oldest shops, Los Angeles Athletic Club, is having its final closing sale. Block places part of the blame on the city for freely issuing liquor licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the community in which the guys would come to shop. You know, gays like things a little tighter, a little shorter, a little skimpy or a little shearer. They like it a little sexier,” Block said. “Now, we’re just becoming a kind of big city. Money comes in, developments come in, restaurants come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say gay neighborhoods, once a haven for mainly gay men, have been shifting for more than a decade, driven by gentrification and other social factors including a wider acceptance of LGBTQ community. To make matters even more complicated, and expensive, Zillow released research in May showing that gay neighborhoods are so popular that buyers pay a premium to get in, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California’s Biggest Enclave: West Hollywood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California’s biggest enclave – the city of West Hollywood – change is afoot too, but it looks different, and the city is working hard to maintain much of its gay population and continues to keep them front and center in civic activities and benefits. The California dream many young gay people found there in the ’70s and ’80s, to be able to be themselves, to be safe and to be part of a community, is still alive albeit more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Terry Beswick, executive director of the GLBT Historical Society']'There’s less necessity to move into gay neighborhoods for safety. We have more apps and online communities to find each other and find support for each other as we move into the post gay marriage era.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has long sought to make itself a place to welcome people who would feel more marginalized in other places,” said Gary Gates, a retired UCLA professor who spent his career studying LGBT communities. “Apart from the Brady Bunch version of the California dream, it’s been one about people going to a new place to feel more free, open and accepted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is still true in West Hollywood where longtime LGBTQ residents and younger people just arriving or visiting find a sense of community even with all of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“West Hollywood is still our paradise,” Block said. “This is our Jerusalem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38600_transform-e1565988560246.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38600_transform-e1565988560246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manny Lopez tries on a sparkly sequined top at Block Party in West Hollywood. He's looking for the perfect tank to wear to the pride celebration in San Diego. He lives in San Bernardino but he treks to WeHo as often as he can for the “community” he feels from being a gay neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Hollowed-Out Castro\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>What is nipping at the edges of the gay community in West Hollywood has already swept through other gay neighborhoods across the country including Chelsea in New York, Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. and The Castro in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High prices aren’t the only drivers of the change, said Alex Bitterman, professor and chair of architecture and design at Alfred State College in Upstate New York. Bitterman is co-writing a book about the evolution of gay neighborhoods and what factors are at play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11758014\" label=\"Through a Neighborhood Fixture's Eyes\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These neighborhoods that have beckoned LGBTQ youth for decades have also been impacted by technology which makes it easier to find community and relationships online, broader social acceptance and whether young people feel the need or desire to live in enclave neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The need to band together and to bolster one another is changing,” Bitterman said. “I don’t think it’s going away but the way we, as an isolated or ostracized community, gather is changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco’s Castro district, Terry Beswick, executive director of the GLBT Historical Society, sees the high housing prices and the greater acceptance across society as the biggest factors for the hollowing out of the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s less necessity to move into gay neighborhoods for safety,” he said. “We have more apps and online communities to find each other and find support for each other as we move into the post gay marriage era.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood's gay residents have been priced out in recent years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634607\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco's Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood's gay residents have been priced out in recent years. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Change With a New Generation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But there is a generational difference, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baby boomers and Gen Xer’s who created and flocked to gay neighborhoods grew up in a time when it was taboo to be gay and sometimes dangerous to reveal their sexual identity, even to family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people are coming out in a different way, and what it means to them and how they live and the opportunities they have are different than previous generations. So their desire for exclusive gay options may be different than past generations,” said Gates. “They are growing up in a world that is quite different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other places, West Hollywood has been able to maintain a healthy gay population and is committed to its mission as an LGBTQ city, said Mayor John D’Amico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11717648\" label=\"S.F.'s Tenderloin Establishes Trans District\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to city surveys, its population remains about 45% LGBTQ – mainly gay men. By and large gay neighborhoods were established by gay men and are home to very few lesbians, transgender folks and gays of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Hollywood is different because of its cityhood and that may be its saving grace, Gates said. It is able to do what bigger cities can’t, focus on the LGBTQ residents by providing services, support and events. The city is known for its gay-centric focus. It started the first registry of domestic partners, offers health services and has a HIV zero campaign to stop the transmission of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was founded to be an LGBT haven,” Gates said. “It is unique among LGBT enclaves”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before it became a city, the 1.9 square-mile area was unincorporated and had been home to mobsters who served alcohol during the Prohibition, the first movie studio and, eventually, gay nightlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984 it was incorporated as West Hollywood, home to more than 37,000 residents, many of them gay. It continues to be a beacon for LGBTQ folks, though it is much more expensive to move in than when D’Amico or councilwoman Lauren Meister arrived decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to be here either to live or to work,” said Meister, who is not LGBTQ. “We have that edge. But I think it’s changing, and it’s changing partly because of the housing; and I think it’s also changing partly because of acceptance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For West Hollywood, where gay couples, who can now marry and have families, may be leaving for more suburban environs and some seniors may be retiring elsewhere there are still many aging gay residents who plan to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is creating a new moment in the city, said D’Amico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'We Got You'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t lost our identify as an LGBTQ center for Los Angeles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"lgbtq\" label=\"More related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Amico said there’s an assumption that the city isn’t as gay as it used to be but he says it’s just that younger, straight professionals who pull up a bar stool are more visible than the senior immigrants who have lived in the community previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Block is skeptical about the numbers the city touts. He has seen friends and neighbors move away – many to the latest gay mecca of Palm Springs – or to other parts of the city that are more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important, Block said, because there are still young people, who like him, show up to come out or to find a safe place. That’s true even if the city can’t provide cheap housing anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got you,” he said. “I mean, you’re amongst your own. I think that’s the most beautiful part of the community is that we are able to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11768052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219-160x44.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Experts say gay neighborhoods, like S.F.'s Castro District, have been changing as home prices rise and cultural norms shift.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1565999008,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":1673},"headData":{"title":"Gentrification is Changing Iconic Gay Neighborhoods in L.A. and S.F. | KQED","description":"Experts say gay neighborhoods, like S.F.'s Castro District, have been changing as home prices rise and cultural norms shift.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11768015 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11768015","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/17/gentrification-is-changing-iconic-gay-neighborhoods-in-l-a-and-s-f/","disqusTitle":"Gentrification is Changing Iconic Gay Neighborhoods in L.A. and S.F.","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href= \"https://calmatters.org/author/elizabeth-aguilera/\"> Elizabeth Aguilera \u003ca/>","path":"/news/11768015/gentrification-is-changing-iconic-gay-neighborhoods-in-l-a-and-s-f","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Wedged snugly between two of the most popular gay bars on Santa Monica Boulevard is Block Party, the “gayest” store in West Hollywood, selling men’s tank tops, swimwear and short shorts, party-themed cowboy hats and everything Pride from rainbow beanie babies to vivid striped jumpsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this stretch of what is loosely considered Boystown in the historically gay city, these three doors are some of the last gay-owned and gay-oriented businesses after a steady march of mainstream restaurants, bars and other retail have moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11634601","label":"Bay Curious: A Changing Castro ","herolink":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/iStock-183834678-1180x882.jpg"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lost our community in the last three or four years,” said Larry Block from the sidewalk in front of his shop. Most of the other gay-owned clothing and retail owners have closed. Block opened Block Party in 2009 and has had retail businesses in West Hollywood for more than three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to new restaurants and bars up and down the street that operate out of the former sites of gay men’s clothing stores. One of the oldest shops, Los Angeles Athletic Club, is having its final closing sale. Block places part of the blame on the city for freely issuing liquor licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the community in which the guys would come to shop. You know, gays like things a little tighter, a little shorter, a little skimpy or a little shearer. They like it a little sexier,” Block said. “Now, we’re just becoming a kind of big city. Money comes in, developments come in, restaurants come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say gay neighborhoods, once a haven for mainly gay men, have been shifting for more than a decade, driven by gentrification and other social factors including a wider acceptance of LGBTQ community. To make matters even more complicated, and expensive, Zillow released research in May showing that gay neighborhoods are so popular that buyers pay a premium to get in, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>California’s Biggest Enclave: West Hollywood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California’s biggest enclave – the city of West Hollywood – change is afoot too, but it looks different, and the city is working hard to maintain much of its gay population and continues to keep them front and center in civic activities and benefits. The California dream many young gay people found there in the ’70s and ’80s, to be able to be themselves, to be safe and to be part of a community, is still alive albeit more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'There’s less necessity to move into gay neighborhoods for safety. We have more apps and online communities to find each other and find support for each other as we move into the post gay marriage era.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Terry Beswick, executive director of the GLBT Historical Society","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has long sought to make itself a place to welcome people who would feel more marginalized in other places,” said Gary Gates, a retired UCLA professor who spent his career studying LGBT communities. “Apart from the Brady Bunch version of the California dream, it’s been one about people going to a new place to feel more free, open and accepted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that is still true in West Hollywood where longtime LGBTQ residents and younger people just arriving or visiting find a sense of community even with all of the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“West Hollywood is still our paradise,” Block said. “This is our Jerusalem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38600_transform-e1565988560246.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/38600_transform-e1565988560246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manny Lopez tries on a sparkly sequined top at Block Party in West Hollywood. He's looking for the perfect tank to wear to the pride celebration in San Diego. He lives in San Bernardino but he treks to WeHo as often as he can for the “community” he feels from being a gay neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Elizabeth Aguilera/CALMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Hollowed-Out Castro\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>What is nipping at the edges of the gay community in West Hollywood has already swept through other gay neighborhoods across the country including Chelsea in New York, Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. and The Castro in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High prices aren’t the only drivers of the change, said Alex Bitterman, professor and chair of architecture and design at Alfred State College in Upstate New York. Bitterman is co-writing a book about the evolution of gay neighborhoods and what factors are at play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11758014","label":"Through a Neighborhood Fixture's Eyes "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These neighborhoods that have beckoned LGBTQ youth for decades have also been impacted by technology which makes it easier to find community and relationships online, broader social acceptance and whether young people feel the need or desire to live in enclave neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The need to band together and to bolster one another is changing,” Bitterman said. “I don’t think it’s going away but the way we, as an isolated or ostracized community, gather is changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco’s Castro district, Terry Beswick, executive director of the GLBT Historical Society, sees the high housing prices and the greater acceptance across society as the biggest factors for the hollowing out of the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s less necessity to move into gay neighborhoods for safety,” he said. “We have more apps and online communities to find each other and find support for each other as we move into the post gay marriage era.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood's gay residents have been priced out in recent years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634607\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco's Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood's gay residents have been priced out in recent years. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Change With a New Generation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But there is a generational difference, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baby boomers and Gen Xer’s who created and flocked to gay neighborhoods grew up in a time when it was taboo to be gay and sometimes dangerous to reveal their sexual identity, even to family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people are coming out in a different way, and what it means to them and how they live and the opportunities they have are different than previous generations. So their desire for exclusive gay options may be different than past generations,” said Gates. “They are growing up in a world that is quite different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other places, West Hollywood has been able to maintain a healthy gay population and is committed to its mission as an LGBTQ city, said Mayor John D’Amico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11717648","label":"S.F.'s Tenderloin Establishes Trans District "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to city surveys, its population remains about 45% LGBTQ – mainly gay men. By and large gay neighborhoods were established by gay men and are home to very few lesbians, transgender folks and gays of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Hollywood is different because of its cityhood and that may be its saving grace, Gates said. It is able to do what bigger cities can’t, focus on the LGBTQ residents by providing services, support and events. The city is known for its gay-centric focus. It started the first registry of domestic partners, offers health services and has a HIV zero campaign to stop the transmission of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was founded to be an LGBT haven,” Gates said. “It is unique among LGBT enclaves”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before it became a city, the 1.9 square-mile area was unincorporated and had been home to mobsters who served alcohol during the Prohibition, the first movie studio and, eventually, gay nightlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984 it was incorporated as West Hollywood, home to more than 37,000 residents, many of them gay. It continues to be a beacon for LGBTQ folks, though it is much more expensive to move in than when D’Amico or councilwoman Lauren Meister arrived decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to be here either to live or to work,” said Meister, who is not LGBTQ. “We have that edge. But I think it’s changing, and it’s changing partly because of the housing; and I think it’s also changing partly because of acceptance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For West Hollywood, where gay couples, who can now marry and have families, may be leaving for more suburban environs and some seniors may be retiring elsewhere there are still many aging gay residents who plan to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is creating a new moment in the city, said D’Amico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'We Got You'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t lost our identify as an LGBTQ center for Los Angeles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"lgbtq","label":"More related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Amico said there’s an assumption that the city isn’t as gay as it used to be but he says it’s just that younger, straight professionals who pull up a bar stool are more visible than the senior immigrants who have lived in the community previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Block is skeptical about the numbers the city touts. He has seen friends and neighbors move away – many to the latest gay mecca of Palm Springs – or to other parts of the city that are more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important, Block said, because there are still young people, who like him, show up to come out or to find a safe place. That’s true even if the city can’t provide cheap housing anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got you,” he said. “I mean, you’re amongst your own. I think that’s the most beautiful part of the community is that we are able to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Dream series is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11768052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/CADreamBanner-1-800x219-160x44.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11768015/gentrification-is-changing-iconic-gay-neighborhoods-in-l-a-and-s-f","authors":["byline_news_11768015"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_223","news_1758","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_21840","news_21534","news_3252","news_4613","news_82","news_20004","news_20003"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11768137","label":"source_news_11768015"},"news_11758014":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11758014","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11758014","score":null,"sort":[1561831437000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"meet-the-flower-guy-whos-watched-the-castro-change-over-38-years","title":"Meet the Flower Guy Who's Watched the Castro Change Over 38 Years","publishDate":1561831437,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Wearing a baseball cap patterned with bright, colorful flowers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guys-Flowers/227347704057025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guy Clark\u003c/a> is arranging bouquets of tulips, sunflowers and peonies. It's a sunny morning at his flower stand at the corner of 15th and Noe in San Francisco's Gay Mecca, the Castro District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are called daylilies,” he explains, pointing to the first bouquet lined against the wall. \"The color is so vibrant. I love these pink ones — I got them because of Pride Week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark has been selling flowers on this exact corner for the last 38 years. He's witnessed the evolution of the Pride movement, the AIDS epidemic and most recently, gentrification throughout the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the neighborhood has undergone many changes since Clark set up shop in 1981, his presence on this Castro corner has been a constant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day when I wake up I'm so excited to get out here and just tantalize the community with these beauties,” Clark says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a visit to Clark’s flower stand not only involves admiring customers of all ages, but also frequent greetings with locals he's befriended over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11758020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guy Clark and a customer on the corner of 15th and Noe, where Clark has been selling flowers for 38 years. \"It's like giving out gold,\" he says. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You see that little guy right there?” asks Clark, pointing to a toddler in a stroller pushed by his grandmother. “I remember his father when he was a little kid; they used to come down the street and I would teach him his colors. This is the second generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The 1970s San Francisco Scene Blooms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guy Clark calls it “a magical moment in history” when he first arrived in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the time of hippies — free love all over the place. And I think it was around one of the first gay parades. Men, women, children — it was almost mandatory at that time that you go to the parade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark also remembers the small-town, family feel that permeated San Francisco’s queer scene back in those days. He says Castro Street wasn’t the queer center it is now; other San Francisco neighborhoods like North Beach and Polk Street had notable queer communities, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, back in the day we used to call it 'Mecca,' ” says Clark about San Francisco. “If you really wanted to live your life fully you come to ‘Mecca’ because you could be yourself here. It was like a home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark spent his nights at local hubs like the I-Beam, a gay nightclub in Haight-Ashbury, which closed in 1994. He remembers bringing his instruments, playing with conga drummers and dancing onstage to numbers by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854644/how-the-world-caught-up-to-sylvester\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sylvester\u003c/a>, whose No. 1 hit on Billboard’s dance music chart, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAHULpMXKQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)\u003c/a>” set the soundtrack for local queer liberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Sylvester became an emblem of gay pride for people in the Castro District and around the country, so did his back up singers, the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weather_Girls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weather Girls\u003c/a>, who found their own fame with their 1982 No. 1 hit, “It’s Raining Men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was the song of the day,” laughs Clark. “It was almost like a theme song, an anthem. People just went berserk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and the Castro have undergone dramatic changes since Clark first started selling flowers here. Still, he insists that the area maintains some of its old charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's still the same,” he says. “I see people from all over the world coming to San Francisco to enjoy the type of life we have here, the freedom we have here. You can’t be yourself everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Giving Away Flowers Through the AIDS Crisis \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark was selling flowers as the AIDS epidemic swept the gay community in the 1980s and '90s -- an era in which the San Francisco Department of Public Health \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/reports/RptsHIVAIDS/HIVAIDAnnlRpt1999.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> the disease killed more than 18,000 people in the city\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark explains that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Reporter\u003c/a>, the country’s longest continuously published LGBTQ newspaper, offered a resource for the San Francisco’s gay community as the disease spread through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every week people would look through [the paper] for the obituaries,” says Clark. “It went from one inch to the whole page, and then two pages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758019\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11758019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the AIDS epidemic, Clark gave away flowers to gay community members who were rapidly losing their loves ones to the disease. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says it was common to see a familiar face at his flower stand one week, only to find their picture in an obituary a few weeks later. He also remembers men approaching him after losing a partner to AIDS, asking if he would help them arrange flowers for their funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘I don't have a lot of money, but I really want it to be beautiful,' ” he recalls them saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them, ‘We'll pull out all the stops. We'll make sure your lover gets to the other side in dignity and beauty,’ ” says Clark. “I just started doing one funeral after the next after the next after the next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark says he began giving away flowers for funerals weekly while also joining the local community in organized acts of resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We protested. We marched. We did everything we possibly could,” he says. “And some of us survived. We were able to share the meaning of humanity. We just held hands, and hugs, and prayed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That went on for years, until the number of people dying of AIDS began to decline in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the obituaries went back down to just a few names, it was a sigh of relief,” says Clark with a sigh himself. “We we could finally see through the clouds of AIDS. We could finally see the sun shining.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Gentrifying Castro\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark used to live just four doors down from his flower stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Best commute in the world,” he says, pointing to a yellow building just a stone’s throw from where he still works. He remembers the avocado tree in the back, which he planted himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that time I thought everything was written in stone, that this is the way it's going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Clark says that after 28 years, he received notice that he’d have to leave the apartment building during a major renovation. Though the landlord told Clark that tenants would be allowed to return to the building, Clark says he was unable to afford the hike in rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn't have a million dollars,” says Clark, who was homeless for a time after that. “It wasn't that I didn't have money; I couldn't find an affordable place to live in San Francisco anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark says he spent some time living in a property manager’s garage, but was eventually asked to leave that space as well. After losing both his dad and his home in the span of a year, Clark says he was “ready for the bridge.” Today, he credits his enduring relationships with his loyal customers for helping him recover from his depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was evicted out of [my apartment] I was so bitter, I was so angry,” he says. “Finally when I realized that my home and my garage didn't define who I am, it made me stronger. It made me more resilient. I can still sell flowers. I’ve still got my permit, and it did get better. I don't have as many flowers, but I've got more customers. And it seems like it worked out for the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Becoming A Neighborhood Fixture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 38 years on the corner of 15th and Noe, Clark has become a local icon who is always willing to greet customers with blooms, bubbles and a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758023\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758023 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clark in front of his flower stand on a sunny San Francisco morning in June 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clark says he feels “like the uncle” and has story after story of adult customers he’s known since childhood. He says his flower stand has even introduced him to celebrity customers like Bobby McFerrin and Tracy Chapman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what his plans for the future, Clark says retirement isn’t in the cards for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I bought a ukulele and I have a guitar,” Clark says. He plans on bringing his instruments to the flower stand to sing songs for his customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I die out here selling flowers, what a way to go!\" he laughs. \"Right to heaven from the flower stand.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Guy Clark has sold flowers on this exact corner in San Francisco’s Castro District for 38 years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1567110603,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1523},"headData":{"title":"Meet the Flower Guy Who's Watched the Castro Change Over 38 Years | KQED","description":"Guy Clark has sold flowers on this exact corner in San Francisco’s Castro District for 38 years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11758014 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11758014","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/06/29/meet-the-flower-guy-whos-watched-the-castro-change-over-38-years/","disqusTitle":"Meet the Flower Guy Who's Watched the Castro Change Over 38 Years","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/07/GuyClarkNewVErsion.mp3","audioTrackLength":338,"path":"/news/11758014/meet-the-flower-guy-whos-watched-the-castro-change-over-38-years","audioDuration":351000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Wearing a baseball cap patterned with bright, colorful flowers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guys-Flowers/227347704057025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guy Clark\u003c/a> is arranging bouquets of tulips, sunflowers and peonies. It's a sunny morning at his flower stand at the corner of 15th and Noe in San Francisco's Gay Mecca, the Castro District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are called daylilies,” he explains, pointing to the first bouquet lined against the wall. \"The color is so vibrant. I love these pink ones — I got them because of Pride Week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark has been selling flowers on this exact corner for the last 38 years. He's witnessed the evolution of the Pride movement, the AIDS epidemic and most recently, gentrification throughout the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the neighborhood has undergone many changes since Clark set up shop in 1981, his presence on this Castro corner has been a constant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day when I wake up I'm so excited to get out here and just tantalize the community with these beauties,” Clark says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a visit to Clark’s flower stand not only involves admiring customers of all ages, but also frequent greetings with locals he's befriended over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758020\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11758020\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37778__M6A0607-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guy Clark and a customer on the corner of 15th and Noe, where Clark has been selling flowers for 38 years. \"It's like giving out gold,\" he says. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You see that little guy right there?” asks Clark, pointing to a toddler in a stroller pushed by his grandmother. “I remember his father when he was a little kid; they used to come down the street and I would teach him his colors. This is the second generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The 1970s San Francisco Scene Blooms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guy Clark calls it “a magical moment in history” when he first arrived in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the time of hippies — free love all over the place. And I think it was around one of the first gay parades. Men, women, children — it was almost mandatory at that time that you go to the parade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark also remembers the small-town, family feel that permeated San Francisco’s queer scene back in those days. He says Castro Street wasn’t the queer center it is now; other San Francisco neighborhoods like North Beach and Polk Street had notable queer communities, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, back in the day we used to call it 'Mecca,' ” says Clark about San Francisco. “If you really wanted to live your life fully you come to ‘Mecca’ because you could be yourself here. It was like a home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark spent his nights at local hubs like the I-Beam, a gay nightclub in Haight-Ashbury, which closed in 1994. He remembers bringing his instruments, playing with conga drummers and dancing onstage to numbers by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13854644/how-the-world-caught-up-to-sylvester\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sylvester\u003c/a>, whose No. 1 hit on Billboard’s dance music chart, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyAHULpMXKQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)\u003c/a>” set the soundtrack for local queer liberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Sylvester became an emblem of gay pride for people in the Castro District and around the country, so did his back up singers, the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weather_Girls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weather Girls\u003c/a>, who found their own fame with their 1982 No. 1 hit, “It’s Raining Men.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/l5aZJBLAu1E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/l5aZJBLAu1E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\"That was the song of the day,” laughs Clark. “It was almost like a theme song, an anthem. People just went berserk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and the Castro have undergone dramatic changes since Clark first started selling flowers here. Still, he insists that the area maintains some of its old charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's still the same,” he says. “I see people from all over the world coming to San Francisco to enjoy the type of life we have here, the freedom we have here. You can’t be yourself everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Giving Away Flowers Through the AIDS Crisis \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark was selling flowers as the AIDS epidemic swept the gay community in the 1980s and '90s -- an era in which the San Francisco Department of Public Health \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/reports/RptsHIVAIDS/HIVAIDAnnlRpt1999.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> the disease killed more than 18,000 people in the city\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark explains that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebar.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Reporter\u003c/a>, the country’s longest continuously published LGBTQ newspaper, offered a resource for the San Francisco’s gay community as the disease spread through the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every week people would look through [the paper] for the obituaries,” says Clark. “It went from one inch to the whole page, and then two pages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758019\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11758019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37777__M6A0599-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the AIDS epidemic, Clark gave away flowers to gay community members who were rapidly losing their loves ones to the disease. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says it was common to see a familiar face at his flower stand one week, only to find their picture in an obituary a few weeks later. He also remembers men approaching him after losing a partner to AIDS, asking if he would help them arrange flowers for their funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘I don't have a lot of money, but I really want it to be beautiful,' ” he recalls them saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them, ‘We'll pull out all the stops. We'll make sure your lover gets to the other side in dignity and beauty,’ ” says Clark. “I just started doing one funeral after the next after the next after the next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark says he began giving away flowers for funerals weekly while also joining the local community in organized acts of resistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We protested. We marched. We did everything we possibly could,” he says. “And some of us survived. We were able to share the meaning of humanity. We just held hands, and hugs, and prayed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That went on for years, until the number of people dying of AIDS began to decline in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the obituaries went back down to just a few names, it was a sigh of relief,” says Clark with a sigh himself. “We we could finally see through the clouds of AIDS. We could finally see the sun shining.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Gentrifying Castro\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark used to live just four doors down from his flower stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Best commute in the world,” he says, pointing to a yellow building just a stone’s throw from where he still works. He remembers the avocado tree in the back, which he planted himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that time I thought everything was written in stone, that this is the way it's going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Clark says that after 28 years, he received notice that he’d have to leave the apartment building during a major renovation. Though the landlord told Clark that tenants would be allowed to return to the building, Clark says he was unable to afford the hike in rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn't have a million dollars,” says Clark, who was homeless for a time after that. “It wasn't that I didn't have money; I couldn't find an affordable place to live in San Francisco anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark says he spent some time living in a property manager’s garage, but was eventually asked to leave that space as well. After losing both his dad and his home in the span of a year, Clark says he was “ready for the bridge.” Today, he credits his enduring relationships with his loyal customers for helping him recover from his depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was evicted out of [my apartment] I was so bitter, I was so angry,” he says. “Finally when I realized that my home and my garage didn't define who I am, it made me stronger. It made me more resilient. I can still sell flowers. I’ve still got my permit, and it did get better. I don't have as many flowers, but I've got more customers. And it seems like it worked out for the best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Becoming A Neighborhood Fixture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 38 years on the corner of 15th and Noe, Clark has become a local icon who is always willing to greet customers with blooms, bubbles and a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758023\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758023 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37781__M6A0627-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clark in front of his flower stand on a sunny San Francisco morning in June 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clark says he feels “like the uncle” and has story after story of adult customers he’s known since childhood. He says his flower stand has even introduced him to celebrity customers like Bobby McFerrin and Tracy Chapman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked what his plans for the future, Clark says retirement isn’t in the cards for him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I bought a ukulele and I have a guitar,” Clark says. He plans on bringing his instruments to the flower stand to sing songs for his customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I die out here selling flowers, what a way to go!\" he laughs. \"Right to heaven from the flower stand.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11758014/meet-the-flower-guy-whos-watched-the-castro-change-over-38-years","authors":["11580"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_223","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_1510","news_21534","news_3252","news_4613","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11758027","label":"news_72"},"news_11634601":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11634601","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11634601","score":null,"sort":[1512558042000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-the-castro-getting-less-gay","title":"Is the Castro Getting Less Gay?","publishDate":1512558042,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Is the Castro Getting Less Gay? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I first moved to San Francisco in the summer of 2016, I was blown away by the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a queer guy who grew up in the Midwest, I had never seen anything like it. Rainbow flags. Rainbow crosswalks. Gay couples everywhere holding hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had never seen a gayer place.[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But our question asker Bob Girard had a different experience the last time he was in the Castro. He lives in Ventura County with his partner and has visited the Castro a lot over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last time we were there it just really seemed to have changed a lot,” Girard said. “Doesn’t seem to be quite the same old Castro as in years past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what has changed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it just didn’t seem to be as gay as it used to be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which raises the question: \u003cstrong>Is the Castro getting less gay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Castro might look as gay as ever, the rainbow explosion on the streets covers up a changing neighborhood that’s home to fewer and fewer gay people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634607\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood's gay residents have been priced out in recent years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood’s gay residents have been priced out in recent years. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s gone from being a gay village to being a tourist destination for people around the world who want to come here and experience a little bit of the gay,” says Don Romesburg, an LGBTQ historian who moved to the Castro in the 1990s after college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has long had neighborhoods where LGBTQ people concentrated — North Beach, the Tenderloin, the Polk. But Romesburg says the rise of the Castro in the 1970s was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro and the gay liberation movement gained speed together, creating a more fully realized neighborhood than any of its predecessors. There weren’t just gay bars and bathhouses in the Castro. There were gay barbers and gay doctors and opportunities to do gay activism with gay nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have a place in San Francisco, in the world, where gay people can come together as a community and feel like they truly belong and that there’s no real sense of stigma, that’s what made the Castro very special for me as a young guy in my 20s,” Romesburg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a country where gay marriage is legal and acceptance of LGBTQ people is greater than ever, some argue that “gayborhoods” aren’t necessary anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-800x1057.jpg\" alt='LGBTQ historian Don Romesburg stands in front of the Castro apartment building he was priced out of in 2011. \"There was absolutely no way we could afford anywhere else remotely close to the Castro,\" Romesburg said.' width=\"800\" height=\"1057\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-800x1057.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-160x211.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-1020x1347.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-1180x1558.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-960x1268.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-240x317.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-375x495.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-520x687.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LGBTQ historian Don Romesburg stands in front of the Castro apartment building he was priced out of in 2011. “There was absolutely no way we could afford anywhere else remotely close to the Castro,” Romesburg said. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Romesburg agrees that this “post-gay thesis” is part of the reason why there are fewer gay people living in the Castro today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not the whole story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s a little too optimistic,” he says. “I think it’s too shiny and progress-y.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Romesburg points the finger at a more familiar culprit: gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Romesburg, the mostly gay white men who moved into the Castro in the 1970s transformed the working-class neighborhood. They rebuilt old Victorian homes that lined the streets and opened popular restaurants and shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-to-late 1990s, the Castro had become an attractive place to live for queer and straight people alike. Romesburg says this led to a second wave of gentrification that pushed older LGBTQ people — including many older gay men with HIV and AIDS — out of the neighborhood. It also raised costs to the point where young LGBTQ people couldn’t afford to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It costs more than $3,800 a month \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-rent-trends/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on average to rent\u003c/a> an apartment in the Castro, according to one company that tracks rents. The \u003ca href=\"http://sfar.stats.10kresearch.com/infoserv/s-v1/bGWu-SAz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median price of a house\u003c/a> in the neighborhood is close to $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romesburg was renting an apartment in the Castro with his partner and their young daughter when they were forced out a few years ago and couldn’t afford to rent anywhere else in the neighborhood. They stayed in San Francisco, moving to the city’s west side, but Romesburg knows of men who have left the Bay Area, moving to Southern California and even out of state after being priced out of the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A community is woven together like a tapestry, and as you pull out the threads of it, the community becomes much more frayed,” Romesburg says. “I think of the Castro in that way. I feel like, as it becomes more of a global tourist destination and less of a community, it loses some of its heart and some of its soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>So where is everyone moving?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If fewer LGBTQ people are living in the Castro, where are they living?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Girard and his partner are looking at moving to the Bay Area, but they don’t want to live in San Francisco. They do, however, want to make sure they end up somewhere where they’re not the only gay couple around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not necessary that it needs to be a high percentage,” Girard says of where they’d like to move. “I’d just like to see other gay people out in public once in a while and to have more social opportunities than exist where we live now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate agents say they’ve seen an exodus of LGBTQ people out of San Francisco and into Oakland. Taylor Sublett, an agent who works with a lot of gay clients, says they’re moving to Oakland for the same reason that everyone else is moving to Oakland: affordability, proximity to San Francisco and more space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike the Castro, there’s no one neighborhood in Oakland where gay people are concentrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same places you see people concentrating from San Francisco period,” Sublett says. “They want to be able to walk to a coffee or be somewhere with that neighborhood-y feel that they’ve been priced out of in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myles Downes is one of those people. He’s a therapist who has been trying to get out of San Francisco for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Myles Downes looks at houses in Oakland on October 27, 2017. Downes, who is gay, has been living in San Francisco for years and is looking to move somewhere more affordable.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myles Downes looks at houses in Oakland on Oct. 27, 2017. Downes, who is gay, has been living in San Francisco for years and is looking to move somewhere more affordable. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says many of his gay friends have moved out of the city, and it’s become harder to maintain those relationships. He’d love to find a place in Oakland where he’s surrounded by other gay people, but like a lot of people making that move, it’s not his top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when we needed ghettoization because it was safer,” Downes says. “Now we don’t really need that as much. We can go and live in the middle of a predominantly straight community, and people are pretty cool with it and it’s no big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other places in the Bay Area with growing queer communities are trying to be a little more purposeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma and Alameda counties have the highest proportion of same-sex couples in the Bay Area (and in the state, along with Riverside and Santa Cruz) after San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_16_5YR_S1101&prodType=table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 American Community Survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]“Sonoma County is so spread out. I think if we all got together in one place, it would really show how many folks are here,” says Alisse Cottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage was legal in 2015, Cottle and her partner, Jess Borrayo, put a rainbow flag outside Brew Coffee and Beer House, the cafe they run in downtown Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They opened the restaurant at the beginning of the year without any political agenda. But with the flag now waving proudly outside, Brew started becoming a hub for the area’s growing queer community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634605\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"A rainbow gay pride flag hangs outside Brew in Santa Rosa. Brew's owners put the flag out after the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal across the country, and the cafe has since become a hub for Santa Rosa's growing queer community.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainbow gay pride flag hangs outside Brew in Santa Rosa. Brew’s owners put the flag out after the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal across the country, and the cafe has since become a hub for Santa Rosa’s growing queer community. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It just started fitting a need that clearly people wanted it,” Cottle said. “And we didn’t really have to do much of anything but just be open to it and be willing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://letterpeople.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter People\u003c/a>, Sonoma County’s queer professionals group, started holding its meetings at Brew. \u003ca href=\"http://posimages.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positive Images\u003c/a>, the county’s LGBTQ youth group, started doing the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender people are a big part of Santa Rosa’s LGBTQ community. The city hosts an annual transgender conference, and Brew hosted a party for a group of transgender kids in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordelia Southworth, a trans woman, has been living in Santa Rosa for more than 20 years. She has been looking to move to San Francisco recently to be a part of a more active queer community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I’m really enjoying seeing what’s happening up here now that it’s starting to come together and be more visible,” she says. “So I don’t know. It might liven up around here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated with the newest data from the American Community Survey.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"How economics and cultural acceptance are changing queer communities across the Bay Area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700597333,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1646},"headData":{"title":"Is the Castro Getting Less Gay? | KQED","description":"How economics and cultural acceptance are changing queer communities across the Bay Area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Bay Curious","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/bay-curious/2017/12/gayborhood-podcast.mp3","audioTrackLength":643,"path":"/news/11634601/is-the-castro-getting-less-gay","audioDuration":658000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hen I first moved to San Francisco in the summer of 2016, I was blown away by the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a queer guy who grew up in the Midwest, I had never seen anything like it. Rainbow flags. Rainbow crosswalks. Gay couples everywhere holding hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had never seen a gayer place.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But our question asker Bob Girard had a different experience the last time he was in the Castro. He lives in Ventura County with his partner and has visited the Castro a lot over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last time we were there it just really seemed to have changed a lot,” Girard said. “Doesn’t seem to be quite the same old Castro as in years past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what has changed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, it just didn’t seem to be as gay as it used to be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which raises the question: \u003cstrong>Is the Castro getting less gay?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Castro might look as gay as ever, the rainbow explosion on the streets covers up a changing neighborhood that’s home to fewer and fewer gay people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634607\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco's Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood's gay residents have been priced out in recent years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28194_Castro-2-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Castro District on Oct. 27, 2017. Many of the neighborhood’s gay residents have been priced out in recent years. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s gone from being a gay village to being a tourist destination for people around the world who want to come here and experience a little bit of the gay,” says Don Romesburg, an LGBTQ historian who moved to the Castro in the 1990s after college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has long had neighborhoods where LGBTQ people concentrated — North Beach, the Tenderloin, the Polk. But Romesburg says the rise of the Castro in the 1970s was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Castro and the gay liberation movement gained speed together, creating a more fully realized neighborhood than any of its predecessors. There weren’t just gay bars and bathhouses in the Castro. There were gay barbers and gay doctors and opportunities to do gay activism with gay nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have a place in San Francisco, in the world, where gay people can come together as a community and feel like they truly belong and that there’s no real sense of stigma, that’s what made the Castro very special for me as a young guy in my 20s,” Romesburg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a country where gay marriage is legal and acceptance of LGBTQ people is greater than ever, some argue that “gayborhoods” aren’t necessary anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-800x1057.jpg\" alt='LGBTQ historian Don Romesburg stands in front of the Castro apartment building he was priced out of in 2011. \"There was absolutely no way we could afford anywhere else remotely close to the Castro,\" Romesburg said.' width=\"800\" height=\"1057\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-800x1057.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-160x211.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-1020x1347.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-1180x1558.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-960x1268.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-240x317.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-375x495.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669-520x687.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28193_Romesburg-1-qut-e1512340502669.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LGBTQ historian Don Romesburg stands in front of the Castro apartment building he was priced out of in 2011. “There was absolutely no way we could afford anywhere else remotely close to the Castro,” Romesburg said. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Romesburg agrees that this “post-gay thesis” is part of the reason why there are fewer gay people living in the Castro today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not the whole story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s a little too optimistic,” he says. “I think it’s too shiny and progress-y.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Romesburg points the finger at a more familiar culprit: gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Romesburg, the mostly gay white men who moved into the Castro in the 1970s transformed the working-class neighborhood. They rebuilt old Victorian homes that lined the streets and opened popular restaurants and shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-to-late 1990s, the Castro had become an attractive place to live for queer and straight people alike. Romesburg says this led to a second wave of gentrification that pushed older LGBTQ people — including many older gay men with HIV and AIDS — out of the neighborhood. It also raised costs to the point where young LGBTQ people couldn’t afford to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It costs more than $3,800 a month \u003ca href=\"https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-rent-trends/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on average to rent\u003c/a> an apartment in the Castro, according to one company that tracks rents. The \u003ca href=\"http://sfar.stats.10kresearch.com/infoserv/s-v1/bGWu-SAz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">median price of a house\u003c/a> in the neighborhood is close to $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romesburg was renting an apartment in the Castro with his partner and their young daughter when they were forced out a few years ago and couldn’t afford to rent anywhere else in the neighborhood. They stayed in San Francisco, moving to the city’s west side, but Romesburg knows of men who have left the Bay Area, moving to Southern California and even out of state after being priced out of the Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A community is woven together like a tapestry, and as you pull out the threads of it, the community becomes much more frayed,” Romesburg says. “I think of the Castro in that way. I feel like, as it becomes more of a global tourist destination and less of a community, it loses some of its heart and some of its soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>So where is everyone moving?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If fewer LGBTQ people are living in the Castro, where are they living?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Girard and his partner are looking at moving to the Bay Area, but they don’t want to live in San Francisco. They do, however, want to make sure they end up somewhere where they’re not the only gay couple around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not necessary that it needs to be a high percentage,” Girard says of where they’d like to move. “I’d just like to see other gay people out in public once in a while and to have more social opportunities than exist where we live now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real estate agents say they’ve seen an exodus of LGBTQ people out of San Francisco and into Oakland. Taylor Sublett, an agent who works with a lot of gay clients, says they’re moving to Oakland for the same reason that everyone else is moving to Oakland: affordability, proximity to San Francisco and more space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike the Castro, there’s no one neighborhood in Oakland where gay people are concentrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same places you see people concentrating from San Francisco period,” Sublett says. “They want to be able to walk to a coffee or be somewhere with that neighborhood-y feel that they’ve been priced out of in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myles Downes is one of those people. He’s a therapist who has been trying to get out of San Francisco for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Myles Downes looks at houses in Oakland on October 27, 2017. Downes, who is gay, has been living in San Francisco for years and is looking to move somewhere more affordable.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28196_Myles-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myles Downes looks at houses in Oakland on Oct. 27, 2017. Downes, who is gay, has been living in San Francisco for years and is looking to move somewhere more affordable. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says many of his gay friends have moved out of the city, and it’s become harder to maintain those relationships. He’d love to find a place in Oakland where he’s surrounded by other gay people, but like a lot of people making that move, it’s not his top priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a time when we needed ghettoization because it was safer,” Downes says. “Now we don’t really need that as much. We can go and live in the middle of a predominantly straight community, and people are pretty cool with it and it’s no big deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other places in the Bay Area with growing queer communities are trying to be a little more purposeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma and Alameda counties have the highest proportion of same-sex couples in the Bay Area (and in the state, along with Riverside and Santa Cruz) after San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_16_5YR_S1101&prodType=table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 American Community Survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>“Sonoma County is so spread out. I think if we all got together in one place, it would really show how many folks are here,” says Alisse Cottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage was legal in 2015, Cottle and her partner, Jess Borrayo, put a rainbow flag outside Brew Coffee and Beer House, the cafe they run in downtown Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They opened the restaurant at the beginning of the year without any political agenda. But with the flag now waving proudly outside, Brew started becoming a hub for the area’s growing queer community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11634605\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"A rainbow gay pride flag hangs outside Brew in Santa Rosa. Brew's owners put the flag out after the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal across the country, and the cafe has since become a hub for Santa Rosa's growing queer community.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-1180x782.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-960x636.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-375x248.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28198_Brew-1-qut-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainbow gay pride flag hangs outside Brew in Santa Rosa. Brew’s owners put the flag out after the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal across the country, and the cafe has since become a hub for Santa Rosa’s growing queer community. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It just started fitting a need that clearly people wanted it,” Cottle said. “And we didn’t really have to do much of anything but just be open to it and be willing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://letterpeople.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter People\u003c/a>, Sonoma County’s queer professionals group, started holding its meetings at Brew. \u003ca href=\"http://posimages.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positive Images\u003c/a>, the county’s LGBTQ youth group, started doing the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender people are a big part of Santa Rosa’s LGBTQ community. The city hosts an annual transgender conference, and Brew hosted a party for a group of transgender kids in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordelia Southworth, a trans woman, has been living in Santa Rosa for more than 20 years. She has been looking to move to San Francisco recently to be a part of a more active queer community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I’m really enjoying seeing what’s happening up here now that it’s starting to come together and be more visible,” she says. “So I don’t know. 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Castro but Lives on via the Web","publishDate":1471656836,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>An unflattering, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/18/so-theres-a-naked-donald-trump-statue-in-the-castro-now-nsfw/\" target=\"_blank\">naked statue of Donald Trump\u003c/a> that showed up in San Francisco's Castro district was removed Thursday night by the San Francisco Department of Public Works. It was one of five statues of the Republican presidential candidate placed in major cities around the country on Thursday morning by the anarchist artist collective \u003ca href=\"http://thisisindecline.com/\" target=\"_blank\">INDECLINE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artwork is now sitting out of public view at the Mission Police Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279044457\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Carlos Manfredi, an SFPD spokesman, said it was removed because it was creating a public safety hazard and was placed without a permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot people [were] showing up to that specific corner and then spilling over onto the street,\" Manfredi said. \"Cars [were] slowing down to see what was going on and take photographs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the day on Thursday, \"The Emperor Has No Balls\" (more popularly known as \"Naked Trump\") by the artist Ginger was a big hit with passersby, who crowded around taking photos with the statue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BJRrIZ0h5yT/?taken-by=memphissummer&hl=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were most excited to put it on that piece of property in Castro to see how it would play out,\" said a spokesman for INDECLINE, who refused to identify himself, saying that members of the collective who commissioned and installed the statues never share their names. \"The reaction was exactly what we had hoped for and more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>INDECLINE knew the statues would be taken down since they had been installed illegally. 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Even Frock's mom, whom the scholar deems \"worlds apart\" from her when it comes to aesthetic tastes, saw the sculpture online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that in a lot of ways the work has been effective in engaging a very broad public in a conversation about [Trump],\" Frock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That conversation has also moved beyond the Republican nominee with some online commentators condemning the statue for \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4459507/body-shaming-donald-trump/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter\" target=\"_blank\">body shaming\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.attn.com/stories/10827/problem-with-naked-donald-trump-statues-in-america\" target=\"_blank\">transphobia\u003c/a>, among other critiques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/UptownNYCDoc/status/766741617629917184\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DerrickLemos/status/766698324845965312\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frock said this kind of art isn't supposed to be liked and that discomfort could be part of what's made \"Naked Trump\" such a lightning rod for discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think we're supposed to feel comfortable about this,\" Frock said. \"I'd venture that the potential for social change coming out of these conversations is far greater with ugly work than with anything else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A police spokesman said this particular \"ugly work\" will remain in police custody until someone from INDECLINE shows up to pay the $4,000-plus fine for the illegally-placed statue and the street damage caused by its removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch the video below from INDECLINE to see the creation of \"Naked Trump.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7TeTzOgkMs\">[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7TeTzOgkMs]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An illegally installed nude statue of the Republican nominee is sparking a broad online conversation.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1471663894,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":584},"headData":{"title":"'Naked Trump' Statue Removed From S.F. 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