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Polk Street History Project, 1950s-2010s, by Joey Plaster

Polk Street’s history through the lens of neighborhood change in the early twenty-first century. Polk Street was San Francisco’s premier gay male center in the 1960s and 1970s. First published on OutHistory in 2012.

Contents

  • Lives in Transition
    • Introduction
    • Saving People
    • The litter of a changing economy
    • A hustler bar becomes a church
    • We Are Family
  • Essay
    • A Study of Transitions
  • Gay Economic Engine
    • "Mom and Pop" to Gay Mecca
    • A Citywide Blue-collar Economy Evaporates
    • Blue-collar Heterosexual Taverns and Restaurants “Turn Gay”
    • The Tavern Guild and Imperial Court
    • Commercialized Sex and Economic Uplift
    • Economic Power to Political Power

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