![]() ![]() The end of prohibition, the discharge of gay soldiers into the city after WWII, the 1950s Beat Movement and the new political consciousness of the ‘60s leading to the “Summer of Love” all helped make San Francisco an important destination for queer migrants coming from other parts of the United States and across the World. Part of what transformed San Francisco into this space were a series of migrations. In 1964, LIFE magazine proclaimed San Francisco the “gay capital” of America. Decades before the Castro emerged as a global center of gay liberation in the 1970s, San Francisco queer culture was already flourishing in other neighborhoods, including North Beach, Nob Hill, the Tenderloin, and Haight-Ashbury. In the aftermath of Prohibition, gay and lesbian bars proliferated across the city. ![]() San Francisco has always been a city with a reputation for rule-breaking, costume parties and wild nightlife, back to its earliest Gold Rush days as the capital of California’s lawless “Barbary Coast.”
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