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Carole Migden, the second, led a budget committee to cut pay and benefits to city workers in her effort to be the responsible centrist lesbian, palatable to downtown. Of course, it can be argued that a good deal of gay culture tries to emulate middle class America and its values, helping homosexuality to become more mainstream and less stigmatized.

In the mid to late 1950s, groups such as the Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society were born, as well as the Tavern Guild, which was the first openly gay business association. Meanwhile, the underground gay press is exploding with dozens of wild 'zines, from the hardcore to the no-core to homocore. Cliff’s Variety, which had been in the neighborhood for decades, was the first established business to hire gay sales clerks, and they gladly their new residents renovate the area’s dilapidated Victorians.

Harvey Milk and his lover, Scott Smith, opened Castro Camera at 575 Castro Street in 1973, moving into the apartment above.

Perhaps the class divisions among gays eroded the earlier Milk/Harry Britt tradition of gay leftism.

The Castro wasn't always a gay neighborhood. I-280 runs along the western side of the Peninsula and is often less congested.

Diseased Pariah News, A Taste of Latex, On Our Backs, Raw Vulva, there are blistering, often hilarious, often erotic writings from the daily lives of fags and dykes, bi- and transsexuals, and transgender individuals. But since the early 70s, it’s been the epicenter of gay life in San Francisco and arguably the world. Unfortunately, the anti-gay feelings of the greater United States reached San Francisco in the late 70s, which were followed by the assassination of Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk and the White Night Riot as well as the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.

U.S. Route 101 follows a busier, more urban corridor. A 1951 California Supreme Court decision banned the closing down of a bar simply because homosexuals were the usual customers. Under Reagan many conservative assumptions were adapted to, and gay politics became more an interest group and less a progressive agenda.

BAR and Sentinel both carry a lot more advertising. Rather than returning to the hinterlands in which they would be stigmatized, many stayed on and after the war they were joined by thousands more who had discovered new identities in the crucible of war. Thousands were discharged by the military for homosexuality and were released in San Francisco.

Buses: Greyhound and Megabus drop off at the Salesforce Transit Center in downtown San Francisco. The AIDS crisis struck in the early 1980s, with thousands of San Francisco's most creative, intelligent and exciting people perishing in the epidemic. But like the Polk, the “Castro Village” (later called simply the Castro), soon started to bring in other gay-owned and -friendly businesses: restaurants, retail shops, bathhouses, and hotels.