Hello guys,
You cannot come to San Francisco without visiting The Castro.
The district which shows that it is necessary to accept andespecially to assert itself, a district or even crosswalks assert themselves! Crosswalks and flags of colors of rainbow are the signs of gratitude of the district, then you cannot miss it!
I am living to Castro in shared flat, at the heart of the gay community, in an apartment in a residential zone in Hartford Streets.
The Castro is a magnificent district mixing joy of life, animation. What marks me most it is the joyful atmosphere and of the main street ” The castro street “. We are not bored here.
The gay district of San Francisco is situated near Castro Street between Market Street and 19th Street.
Castro is a residential area where the major part of the population is well-to-do. There is also aGreater Castro lined by Mission District, Noe Valley, Twin Peaks and Haight-Ashbury, Duboce Triangle, Dolores Heights.
THAT YOU SHOULD NOT MISS IN CASTRO
* Castro theater
* The Castro”: Cinema of the district, in “1976 classified as Historic Monument”.
* Harvey Milk Plaza: plate in honor of Harvey Milk.
* Maxime’s blue house The Forester au3841 18th Street: it is a blue house known in the district.
THE SHORT HISTORY ON THIS DISTRICT
The castro (formerly Eureka Valley) was populated by the middle class in the 50s and the same period marks the emergence of the gay community to The Castro . But it is during the “summer of love” to Haight Ashbury, of 1967, that The castro was set up as the district of the gay community. This demonstration was a demonstration where militated all the countercultures. It was thus the opportunity for the community LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, sexual Bi and Trans) to assert itself. At the end of the 60s, the lesbians, gay, bi and trans sexual leave Haight Ashbury to settle down in Castro. At the end of 1970s, the middle class migrates to suburbs and the gay community seizes living districts. The phenomenon of gentrification appears then.
Strongly affected by the crisis of the AIDS in the 80s, the district becomes the target of the local powers and the anti-gay activists, many prevention campaigns are led to make sensitive the community at the risks of transmission of the virus. Clubs liven up then the night life of the place, in particular the Corner kick Grocery Bar, the Norse Cove, the Pendulum and the Elephant Walk.
HARVEY MILK: DEFENDER OF THE GAY COMMUNITY
Harvey Milk is a symbolic and major character to Castro.
He was an active activist of the gay community who worked to make of Castro the homosexual destination.
Ignored by the storekeepers’ local association, Harvey Milk and other homosexual owners of small companies establish their own association, baptized Castro Village, officializing in a way the name of the gay district. Many bars and clubs liven up then the night-life of the place, in particular the Corner kick Grocery Bar, the Norse Cove, the Pendulum and the Elephant Walk.
Harvey Milk
Strong of its influence, MILK was even the first gay to sit in the City Council. In 1978, was murdered by Dan White a conservative Catholic.
Harvey Milk was also an owner of a store of photo to 575 Castro street which became a tourist attraction and a symbol for the gay community today.
I hope you learn a lot of interestings things ! I invit you to visit this district!
See you guys !