Every now and then, we will bring something out of the KQED archives to share online. This is part of a 1997 documentary series examing the history of different neighborhoods in San Francisco. We will also be publishing a video about the Fillmore neighborhood later this month.
@@yesic7196 I know KQED did a documentary just like this one on the Mission District maybe 2 years or so prior to this Castro Neighborhood one. Would love it if they could upload that one!
Thank you for this documentary. It's helping me see the full story behind the headlines of my childhood and young adulthood. I'll have much more to think about if I'm ever in San Frsncisco and The Castro again.
One of the absolute best things about the net, the ability to see old documentaries we wouldn't otherwise have been able to, thanks to all the lovely people that put them on You tube for us
Thank you for sharing this awesome production with us, in the rest of the world. It may not be important to some but it is vital to others! It's an important piece of history. Thanks again!
Thank you for uploading this. As a gay man from the South, I always looked to San Francisco growing up and wanting to make it out here. After getting out of conversion therapy, I visited San Francisco at 19 in 2015 and fell in love - I knew I was home. However it wouldn’t be until 7 years later that I’d come to San Francisco with $700 in my pocket and seeking a life in recovery and among my community. San Francisco has been at the forefront of progressive thought, humanitarian thought, from LGBTQ rights to living in recovery from substance use disorder syndrome. I came here to feel human and be seen for more than my addiction, and almost two years later I have so much gratitude and deep love for the community here in the Castro, the Castro Country Club, and all of San Francisco for showing me a more loving, kind, open, and proud way to live. I owe San Francisco more than I could give it for the freedom and joy that I have in my new life. What an incredible documentary. I am proud to live in the Castro, and I’m honored to walk the streets that these folks made history on, made our life possible on.
I was born and raised in the Castro neighborhood (Duboce Triangle to be exact), and have many great memories there as a child and growing up in the 80's and 90's. I do miss those days and so many of the people who are now gone so much. I feel very lucky and honored that my childhood neighborhood has a terrific documentary like this made on it, and that my old neighborhood has so much history. Not many people can say their childhood neighborhood was so important that it has documentaries made on it! A question for KQED: I know that KQED also did a documentary like this on the Mission District a couple years prior to making this one on the Castro back in 1996, is there any chance that will be uploaded? Would love to see that one again, I know we recorded it on VHS back when it came out, but that tape is likely long gone. I miss the old neighborhood and my home so much. I loved growing up in the Castro, I feel so lucky that I did. Many things change in life, they say the only thing constant in life is change itself, and the neighborhood has certainly changed over the decades since this documentary was made. But the memories will always be there until the day I die. That will never change.
Im very lucky to have been born to two SF natives, and I grew up and live in the East Bay. Im double lucky to live in an educated, liberal, area of America. I have lived in another state briefly for college, Im glad I did because it makes me appreciate living here ever more. It is expensive though but only because people want to be here.
The Castro was both the most welcoming place I've ever been and the least welcoming. It's weird. As long as you're around the right people, you were embraced and loved and treated better than you will ever be treated by anyone anywhere else in the world. But if you didn't have those safe people around you so not only are you not welcome there if you're not lgbtq, but you also better look the part or they are going to treat you as if you aren't one of them. It really sucks. It's both one of the most meaningful and also vapid places I've ever experienced in my life and I have many many years of experience being in this area and with this community
Frank Butterfield has done books about life in The Castro beginning around 1947, it was so glamorous like a pre Mad Men. In one of his Books Nick Williams and his Husband Carter Jones bought a House in Eureka Valley.
Unfortunately not. Have you seen it recently? If so, then you have witnessed its catastrophic decline. A once great city, beautiful inside and out, is now a decaying shell of its former glory. Tragically sad.
Viewing this almost mid-way through 2024, I cried - smiled, was so moved. Time - the human heart, we are all the same species. Evolution and generational change is unpredictable, dynamic but constant - nothing stays the same. Except LOVE.
@@harryjones-haroldineby your tongue emoji I bet there was a party. I didn't realize people were getting sober however still abusing people. I've heard of brutal attacks from the fellowship with no accountability, talking about AA in the courts. Lots of parties and abuse inside and outside the rooms.
@@harryjones-haroldine It's the *Bill Graham Civic Auditorium* , not the "Billy Graham". Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 - October 25, 1991) was a German-American impresario and rock concert promoter. In the early 1960s, Graham moved to San Francisco, and in 1965, began to manage the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He had teamed up with local Haight Ashbury promoter Chet Helms to organize a benefit concert, then promoted several free concerts. This eventually turned into a profitable full-time career and he assembled a talented staff. Graham had a profound influence around the world, sponsoring the musical renaissance of the 1960s from its epicenter in San Francisco. Chet Helms and then Graham made famous the Fillmore and Winterland Ballroom; these turned out to be a proving grounds for rock bands and acts of the San Francisco Bay area including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, who were first managed, and in some cases developed, by Helms.
This is a wonderful and necessary documentary - thanks for posting it! I've stayed in The Castro five times in the past 14 months and love it. It's my home when I travel to the city to visit family.
@@nikicarrie4071 I haven't been there since late April. It's always a busy area, and I've found it very safe to walk around in even late at night. I've seen a lot of families with young kids walking down Castro, although one might need to be careful about letting kids see some of the locals (they're not always fully dressed). All in all a great neighborhood, though, with fun venues and restaurants.
Most likely it's boring... I lived in SF 1977-1980, nothing compares to the Golden Years. I'm 71 now and live on my farm in rural Virginia growing weed for the masses.
I live here now in 2024. Eleven years in the city. It’s home. Problems exist, but this city is resilient. It’s already coming out of a recent doom loop. I’ll never give up on this beautiful city. It continues to be magical.
I have personally lived this history. I was born in San Francisco in 1955. I personally knew Harvey Milk and many other people interviewed in this video. 🌈
@@tygertone Harvey Milk was a rarity in politics: Totally straight forward and principled. He was willing to stand up to an entrenched Democratic Party Machine which just sought gay votes but delivered only tokens to us. Because of this, he was respected and even endorsed by conservative Supervisor Quentin Kopp.
It’s still so devastating to remember the aids epidemic that took the lives of so many amazing people😭Especially in the beginning when no one knew the exact cause so many died horrific deaths ALONE….. how terrifying
Great documentary. I visited the Castro in the 80s because of its notoriety as a gay pilgrimage destination. As highlighted in this documentary, I noticed immediately that it was an all White tribe within a tribe. Asians hung out up on Polk Street, which is actually more hip and less cliquey, even more so today.
You were 16 in 1968, you come out of the movie and there are a dozen cars circling Castro from 18th to 19th. Cruisers. looking for rough trade. Teenage boys from the local gang, the Valley Boys would lure them into the baseball diamond and six or seven guys would jump out of the bushes and beat them with axe handles. The cops would tell the perpetrators to scram, even when it was a case of serious injury, mayhem. I saw things I wish I could forget. Those Irish Catholic boys could be sadistic.
46:28 i don’t why if the white lgbtq people can feel liberated by the civil rights movement, how come they never acknowledged the racism that took place in that same neighborhood?
Agree, you'd think that if white lgbt were so inspired, they would be studied...but it would take decades to really bring blk same sex experiences to the fore! Racism figures, and to a lesser extent conceptionalizations of gender, but ignorance of black same sex experiences in white supremist society is key.
If the black community has a problem with homosexuality, it's because of the dl men who won't come out the closet and be who they want to be! The lesbians don't seem to have that problem.....
I lived on the edge of the Castro in the 70's in a basement apt ...but then I moved to Project Artaud in the mission ..Artists warehouse lofts ....strangely I wanted to move to Europe so bad I joined the US Army to get stationed there haha ..lots of gays in Europe
The other thing i wanted to comment on is this whole marriage thing. So far I have had 4 of my friends get "married" cause its so amazing and now we can do it...well, all 4 have divorced. let that sink in for a second.
Did ya think you were all that different from straight people? At least, your divorced friends weren't murdered by their spouse for their property, other possessions and for their Life Insurance. Welcome to our world. "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here." Just kidding.
tHE only thing they left out of this documentary is that when black and brown people came to the home land of the Castro they were met with racism ...an only whites were rented apartments and sold homes. The blacks went to oakland or other parts of SF. How do I know cause i am latino and i went there when i was 22 and i was not able to rent an apartment anywhere near castro...then one of my white friends came and he was able to get a two bedroom on market.
@@Dimi374 hi, yeh it was kinda a soft racism very friendly, but there. i was surprised when none of the 6 apartments i saw called me back. then I went to Daly City an the first apt i saw was offered to me by this little old lady mother of the owner. Then my friend came from New york few months later and he got an apt on Market in one afternoon! btw both students..both from middle class families.
Didn't live in Castro but want there couple times a week, 70s-80s... Many great times. Friends lived there and had businesses. Made new "friends" even if it was only for a night or two.😉
I noticed When something was wrong I remember coming out of😢 Studio 54 &. Everything I took was to make me feel good little. Did I know the black? Cloud that was around the corner coming towards us full speed The year was 1980. That's when I said at least I don't know anybody that died of aids I most have said too soon because the following week. The first one 🧣 dropped in it came up to the 98 of my friends. That I missed them terribly. 😢
No. The largest employers in San Francisco is the City and Country of San Francisco and the University of California, San Francisco. The city has a diversified service economy, with employment spread across a wide range of professional services, including tourism, financial services, and (increasingly) high technology. In 2016, approximately 27% of workers were employed in professional business services; 14% in leisure and hospitality; 13% in government services; 12% in education and health care; 11% in trade, transportation, and utilities; and 8% in financial activities. The legacy of the California gold rush turned San Francisco into the principal banking and finance center of the West Coast in the early twentieth century. Montgomery Street in the Financial District became known as the "Wall Street of the West," home to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the site of the now-defunct Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. Bank of America, a pioneer in making banking services accessible to the middle class, was founded in San Francisco.
I was just too young to be aware of what was going on and we didn't talk about the political stuff or anything that had to do with the world around us in my household. I wasn't raised in a closed-minded household we were just in a household it was because my mom was and still is very ignorant without being conservative. I lived about 15 minutes from the Castro and I would have been 7:00 or 8 years old when the epidemic began, and knew nothing about it and it was happening in my neck of the woods.
Actually, I live at the epicenter of S.F. …The corner of Castro and Market Streets are not far away; about 10 blocks away. But, that’s OK we can share the concept and the actual reality which is Baker and Fulton streets!😂
Just curious, where are you in the documentary? Would love to know and see who you were back in 1996. I was born and raised in the Castro, have many great memories there as a child and growing up. I do miss those days so much.
Every few years I find myself in the Castro's in the 70s 80s and 90s and every time I went it was changed a little bit I haven't been there in quite a few years and it seems like it's really going on I don't know and I lived in New York in the village in the same thing happened in The villages all yuppies now and fancy shops there's no more village of poor people and artists and I think the same thing is probably happened in the Castro
UA-cam has been supporting 60p for ten years. This presentation is neither at 60p nor 24p, but 30p - why? Also, UA-cam does not have rigid broadcast TV requirements for HD to use 16:9 frame, which begs the question - why have you pillarboxed 4:3 content into a 16:9 frame instead of using 4:3 frame? The way you've done it reduces the image size when watching on a phone in vertical orientation. KQED should learn how UA-cam operates. I hope you either have the original tape in the vault, or you have a proper 60p digital copy.
I know this one will be very interesting story about Castro years & the beginning i remember we use too go there every Halloween it definitely was the place to be they party & the people were so beautiful ❤
Hawaiian history is alive and strong. She got a bit confused. The concept is called Na'au and it is a place of refuge. Every island has one. On Maui where I live it is Oluwalu. A beautiful tiny tiny area where you pass thru on the way to Lahaina. Some will recognize it as where the big trees hang over the hwy. She erroneously spoke of it as an island. Most importantly she missed the entire reverence for Mahu. Healers that are both male and female. Asexual. Healers. Consider that! There's a n animated film on the Mahu on You Tube. Kapaemahu. Go watch it and then go see the stones on Oahu. Aloha my friends! 🎉❤🎉
I lived in SF for 30 years, from 1969 to 1999, and finally left the city after retirement because it had become too expensive. I am appalled at how the criminal-favoring Democratic politicians have ruined the city, driving out the middle class, and turning Market Street into a haven for drug addicts. No wonder so many businesses are closing!
That was in a different neighborhood. We have a documentary about Compton's on our Arts channel though: ua-cam.com/video/G-WASW9dRBU/v-deo.htmlsi=wN6W64uS9O2VTUsj
Me realizing this came out in 1997.. Wow! Still very much relevant today! I would have guessed it came out this year lol. I lived in the Castro around 2016. Somehow it was before I realized I was trans and a lesbian. I guess we all end up drawn to the Castro somehow and I was just slow to figure myself out lol. The gentrification was getting worse FAST back then due to tech and I bet it still is, so to see that the cost of living and gentrification was mentioned in a 1997 documentary is interesting. I was living in a typical SF style house with like 10 other people (cause that was how to afford living there), all of whom afaik were straight. I sure hope the neighborhood doesn't get destroyed by gentrification, as that would be a huge loss of this gem..
Many neighborhoods in many cities “spiraled out of control” due to the urban effects of Covid and cost of living resulting in homelessness. It’s not unique to SF.
Why are there so few views in 7 months????? Where are all the “trans” viewers, who are in angst and seeking medicalization and surgical interventions???? They need to watch this. To take a breath. To take time to grow up in order to accept who they are 🙂
Zombies, got cash for to do drugs? Got poo latrines? Got free support for using drugs? So san Francisco CA, a place to be, a go to area to be zombies? Hmm.,., So why not advertise to the world? "Zombies, be on San Francisco CA" to have all the free goodies, free stuffs and all tax free & paid?,.,.,
Funny, went to toad Hall from 2010 to 2011 when I was still hanging out in that area, and it is the most cliche textbook young hot hot gays that went there. The exact opposite of a counterculture movement or hippie movement
Every now and then, we will bring something out of the KQED archives to share online. This is part of a 1997 documentary series examing the history of different neighborhoods in San Francisco. We will also be publishing a video about the Fillmore neighborhood later this month.
That’s a place out of my wishing list.
Can you do one on hispanic/latina culture in Sf bayarea? Thank you
@@yesic7196 I know KQED did a documentary just like this one on the Mission District maybe 2 years or so prior to this Castro Neighborhood one. Would love it if they could upload that one!
thank you
Thank you for this documentary. It's helping me see the full story behind the headlines of my childhood and young adulthood. I'll have much more to think about if I'm ever in San Frsncisco and The Castro again.
One of the absolute best things about the net, the ability to see old documentaries we wouldn't otherwise have been able to, thanks to all the lovely people that put them on You tube for us
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
And all the amazing heros who shared their stories, very inspiring
Unaffordable to live
In the 1990s, I purchased this VHS documentary from Wolfe Video and I'm so thrilled to be able to watch it again today. Such a great series.
Have you been in the past few years?
I'm so pleased that you uploaded this documentary, which is an important chronicle of San Francisco for posterity.
Thank you so much for uploading this. LGBTQIA History is SO important to share. ❤
I would love to see a follow up on the people in this documentary.
Damns its already over quarter of a century old docu… time flies
Thanks for posting this. An important look at our history and the struggles that still remain.
Thank you for sharing this awesome production with us, in the rest of the world. It may not be important to some but it is vital to others! It's an important piece of history. Thanks again!
That was outstanding !!!! Thank you for creating this historical record of merit for us and the world
Someone needs to make a video documentary on "Where Are They Now"?
Well, of the people I personally knew in this film, none of them are still alive.
Deceased
@MGinSF Oh! I thought he had died. Thanks for updating me. I didn't know him well but I had certainly spoken with him a number of times.
@davidkennerly Who in the video are you talking about?
Thank you for uploading this. As a gay man from the South, I always looked to San Francisco growing up and wanting to make it out here. After getting out of conversion therapy, I visited San Francisco at 19 in 2015 and fell in love - I knew I was home. However it wouldn’t be until 7 years later that I’d come to San Francisco with $700 in my pocket and seeking a life in recovery and among my community. San Francisco has been at the forefront of progressive thought, humanitarian thought, from LGBTQ rights to living in recovery from substance use disorder syndrome. I came here to feel human and be seen for more than my addiction, and almost two years later I have so much gratitude and deep love for the community here in the Castro, the Castro Country Club, and all of San Francisco for showing me a more loving, kind, open, and proud way to live. I owe San Francisco more than I could give it for the freedom and joy that I have in my new life.
What an incredible documentary. I am proud to live in the Castro, and I’m honored to walk the streets that these folks made history on, made our life possible on.
Beautiful documentary. Thank you for posting.
Straight white female here and this is fantastic documentary. I love San Francisco for the history. I hope it can return to the way it was before
I was born and raised in the Castro neighborhood (Duboce Triangle to be exact), and have many great memories there as a child and growing up in the 80's and 90's. I do miss those days and so many of the people who are now gone so much. I feel very lucky and honored that my childhood neighborhood has a terrific documentary like this made on it, and that my old neighborhood has so much history. Not many people can say their childhood neighborhood was so important that it has documentaries made on it!
A question for KQED: I know that KQED also did a documentary like this on the Mission District a couple years prior to making this one on the Castro back in 1996, is there any chance that will be uploaded? Would love to see that one again, I know we recorded it on VHS back when it came out, but that tape is likely long gone.
I miss the old neighborhood and my home so much. I loved growing up in the Castro, I feel so lucky that I did. Many things change in life, they say the only thing constant in life is change itself, and the neighborhood has certainly changed over the decades since this documentary was made. But the memories will always be there until the day I die. That will never change.
I'm sure we saw each other since I lived in the Duboce Triangle at the same time. Cheers!
@@davidkennerly :)
I remember this documentary. Glad to see it once again.
Thanks for posting 😊
Im very lucky to have been born to two SF natives, and I grew up and live in the East Bay. Im double lucky to live in an educated, liberal, area of America. I have lived in another state briefly for college, Im glad I did because it makes me appreciate living here ever more. It is expensive though but only because people want to be here.
Liberal 🤮
This was my SF and my brother John's
.....he is gone now and this place is no longer what it once was....
How has it changed? I'm curious, thx
The city has become almost unrecognizable...but that is what the city is all about. Always changing and evolving...
The Castro was both the most welcoming place I've ever been and the least welcoming. It's weird. As long as you're around the right people, you were embraced and loved and treated better than you will ever be treated by anyone anywhere else in the world. But if you didn't have those safe people around you so not only are you not welcome there if you're not lgbtq, but you also better look the part or they are going to treat you as if you aren't one of them. It really sucks. It's both one of the most meaningful and also vapid places I've ever experienced in my life and I have many many years of experience being in this area and with this community
Só proud to have been a part of It..❤
Frank Butterfield has done books about life in The Castro beginning around 1947, it was so glamorous like a pre Mad Men. In one of his Books Nick Williams and his Husband Carter Jones bought a House in Eureka Valley.
Great channel! San Francisco will always be a fantastic city!! ❤❤❤
Unfortunately not. Have you seen it recently? If so, then you have witnessed its catastrophic decline. A once great city, beautiful inside and out, is now a decaying shell of its former glory. Tragically sad.
Viewing this almost mid-way through 2024, I cried - smiled, was so moved. Time - the human heart, we are all the same species. Evolution and generational change is unpredictable, dynamic but constant - nothing stays the same. Except LOVE.
Great documentary! I still haven't made it to San Francisco yet, but I bet nobody can afford to live in this neighborhood anymore lol
I went there in 1999 for an AA conference 😀 me a group of my home group friends 😀 beautiful city 🏳️🌈
& 😳 we had the conference at the Billy Graham Auditorium 😇 buhahaha 👅
@@harryjones-haroldineby your tongue emoji I bet there was a party. I didn't realize people were getting sober however still abusing people. I've heard of brutal attacks from the fellowship with no accountability, talking about AA in the courts. Lots of parties and abuse inside and outside the rooms.
@yesic7196 no 😀 & I'm still sober today 🙏 the emoji is in reference to where the conference was held 👅
@@harryjones-haroldine It's the *Bill Graham Civic Auditorium* , not the "Billy Graham". Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 - October 25, 1991) was a German-American impresario and rock concert promoter. In the early 1960s, Graham moved to San Francisco, and in 1965, began to manage the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He had teamed up with local Haight Ashbury promoter Chet Helms to organize a benefit concert, then promoted several free concerts. This eventually turned into a profitable full-time career and he assembled a talented staff. Graham had a profound influence around the world, sponsoring the musical renaissance of the 1960s from its epicenter in San Francisco. Chet Helms and then Graham made famous the Fillmore and Winterland Ballroom; these turned out to be a proving grounds for rock bands and acts of the San Francisco Bay area including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, who were first managed, and in some cases developed, by Helms.
This is a wonderful and necessary documentary - thanks for posting it! I've stayed in The Castro five times in the past 14 months and love it. It's my home when I travel to the city to visit family.
What is it like now
@@nikicarrie4071 I haven't been there since late April. It's always a busy area, and I've found it very safe to walk around in even late at night. I've seen a lot of families with young kids walking down Castro, although one might need to be careful about letting kids see some of the locals (they're not always fully dressed). All in all a great neighborhood, though, with fun venues and restaurants.
I'm so glad that HIV is no longer a death sentence
Thanks for that comment, all those beautiful people who died too young we must always cherish their legacy
But, there are many, many other death sentences!!!!! Beware of the dark, seek the light!
@@hunkhk Absolutely.
Remember all those we lost and be grateful that a single pill a day can (often) keep you undetectable
@@hunkhkWe must never forget those that were lost...
people still must take it serious
Seeing this in 2024 - 27 years later. I'm now in my mid-70's. What is it like today ?!?
If the streets could talk. ❤
Most likely it's boring... I lived in SF 1977-1980, nothing compares to the Golden Years. I'm 71 now and live on my farm in rural Virginia growing weed for the masses.
Capitalism ruined the area. It's too expensive now for any young person to live here who is not rich.
I live here now in 2024. Eleven years in the city. It’s home. Problems exist, but this city is resilient. It’s already coming out of a recent doom loop. I’ll never give up on this beautiful city. It continues to be magical.
It's far less exciting, today than it was in the 70s and 80s. It was never the same again after the outbreak.
A powerful documentary. Our young people need to know this history. Thanks! Definitely a 2 hanky film.
I have personally lived this history. I was born in San Francisco in 1955. I personally knew Harvey Milk and many other people interviewed in this video. 🌈
what was Harvey like ?
@@tygertone Harvey Milk was a rarity in politics: Totally straight forward and principled. He was willing to stand up to an entrenched Democratic Party Machine which just sought gay votes but delivered only tokens to us. Because of this, he was respected and even endorsed by conservative Supervisor Quentin Kopp.
Thank you for this video
It’s still so devastating to remember the aids epidemic that took the lives of so many amazing people😭Especially in the beginning when no one knew the exact cause so many died horrific deaths ALONE….. how terrifying
Great documentary. I visited the Castro in the 80s because of its notoriety as a gay pilgrimage destination. As highlighted in this documentary, I noticed immediately that it was an all White tribe within a tribe. Asians hung out up on Polk Street, which is actually more hip and less cliquey, even more so today.
Excellent documentary! Thanks KQED!! About love not hate ❤!!😮
I liked this video. Mainly the nostalgia. I'm straight. But really enjoyed
The club they show in this documentary is Studio 54 in NY.
0:00 Film maker Rick Bacigalupi produced a documentary short _Only in the Castro with Trevor Hailey_
Excellent! This doc covers the history and every valid detail about The Castro.
You were 16 in 1968, you come out of the movie and there are a dozen cars circling Castro from 18th to 19th. Cruisers. looking for rough trade. Teenage boys from the local gang, the Valley Boys would lure them into the baseball diamond and six or seven guys would jump out of the bushes and beat them with axe handles. The cops would tell the perpetrators to scram, even when it was a case of serious injury, mayhem. I saw things I wish I could forget. Those Irish Catholic boys could be sadistic.
You mean straight men would chase you and gays would beat them up?
such a great documentary
IT WOULD BE AMAZING TO SEE WHO OF THESE MEN AND WOMAN, TAKING PART IN THIS DOCUMENTARY, IS STILL WITH US IN 2024 ??? ANY SUGGESTIONS OUT THERE ???
The male couple in the beginning recently passed away
Great documentary very moving and informative!! Press on ! 💜💜💜
46:28 i don’t why if the white lgbtq people can feel liberated by the civil rights movement, how come they never acknowledged the racism that took place in that same neighborhood?
Just like the extreme homophobia in the black community is never acknowledged.
Agree, you'd think that if white lgbt were so inspired, they would be studied...but it would take decades to really bring blk same sex experiences to the fore! Racism figures, and to a lesser extent conceptionalizations of gender, but ignorance of black same sex experiences in white supremist society is key.
If the black community has a problem with homosexuality, it's because of the dl men who won't come out the closet and be who they want to be! The lesbians don't seem to have that problem.....
I remember this documentary series aired on PBS and it was available on DVD, where can I find the DVD copy of this series?
Where are these people now? Would love to know.❤
Sup wit it, still here! 2024 ❤
Charlie Mackenzie and Harriet
I lived on the edge of the Castro in the 70's in a basement apt ...but then I moved to Project Artaud in the mission ..Artists warehouse lofts ....strangely I wanted to move to Europe so bad I joined the US Army to get stationed there haha ..lots of gays in Europe
The other thing i wanted to comment on is this whole marriage thing. So far I have had 4 of my friends get "married" cause its so amazing and now we can do it...well, all 4 have divorced. let that sink in for a second.
Did ya think you were all that different from straight people? At least, your divorced friends weren't murdered by their spouse for their property, other possessions and for their Life Insurance. Welcome to our world. "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here." Just kidding.
I guess we're more like straight people than we would like to admit right?
The Castro depicted in this 1997 documentary is gone, unrecognizable and nothing like she was 27 yers ago. I know becasue I was there.
I agree, I was there at the same time as well.
Yes that's true and I blame Silicon Valley they flipped it, they flipped the whole city.
@@salvatorericca8353me too I was there when the Aids quilt was made .
What changed
In the 80s the Castro looked like a War camp :( so many had AIDS.
A very sad place back then .
Such a interesting watch, I can’t wait to visit ❤
I know it's changed a lot but visit it and enjoy it it's wonderful
tHE only thing they left out of this documentary is that when black and brown people came to the home land of the Castro they were met with racism ...an only whites were rented apartments and sold homes. The blacks went to oakland or other parts of SF. How do I know cause i am latino and i went there when i was 22 and i was not able to rent an apartment anywhere near castro...then one of my white friends came and he was able to get a two bedroom on market.
❤ So true!!
@@Dimi374 hi, yeh it was kinda a soft racism very friendly, but there. i was surprised when none of the 6 apartments i saw called me back. then I went to Daly City an the first apt i saw was offered to me by this little old lady mother of the owner. Then my friend came from New york few months later and he got an apt on Market in one afternoon! btw both students..both from middle class families.
Fact. Still.
After a time even Lesbians were edged out and over to Noe Valley.
@@lennyvelez5929 ua-cam.com/video/060RBiR1uPc/v-deo.htmlsi=ifTGGg4wxKplrkKF
In my opinion, it does not matter who you love. We are humans and children of God.
Most people don’t share your views unfortunately
Not much has changed, some may say otherwise.
@@ralex3697 Oh, so you did a survey of 8 billion people and more than 50% of them disagree with me. I would like to see this survey.
Didn't live in Castro but want there couple times a week, 70s-80s... Many great times. Friends lived there and had businesses. Made new "friends" even if it was only for a night or two.😉
This sure reminds me of why I loved living in the Castro!
I noticed
When something was wrong I remember coming out of😢 Studio 54 &. Everything I took was to make me feel good little. Did I know the black? Cloud that was around the corner coming towards us full speed The year was 1980. That's when I said at least I don't know anybody that died of aids I most have said too soon because the following week. The first one 🧣 dropped in it came up to the 98 of my friends. That I missed them terribly. 😢
Where did everyone work and stuff, is there alot of factories around sf
No. The largest employers in San Francisco is the City and Country of San Francisco and the University of California, San Francisco.
The city has a diversified service economy, with employment spread across a wide range of professional services, including tourism, financial services, and (increasingly) high technology. In 2016, approximately 27% of workers were employed in professional business services; 14% in leisure and hospitality; 13% in government services; 12% in education and health care; 11% in trade, transportation, and utilities; and 8% in financial activities. The legacy of the California gold rush turned San Francisco into the principal banking and finance center of the West Coast in the early twentieth century. Montgomery Street in the Financial District became known as the "Wall Street of the West," home to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the site of the now-defunct Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. Bank of America, a pioneer in making banking services accessible to the middle class, was founded in San Francisco.
I was just too young to be aware of what was going on and we didn't talk about the political stuff or anything that had to do with the world around us in my household. I wasn't raised in a closed-minded household we were just in a household it was because my mom was and still is very ignorant without being conservative. I lived about 15 minutes from the Castro and I would have been 7:00 or 8 years old when the epidemic began, and knew nothing about it and it was happening in my neck of the woods.
Actually, I live at the epicenter of S.F. …The corner of Castro and Market Streets are not far away; about 10 blocks away. But, that’s OK we can share the concept and the actual reality which is Baker and Fulton streets!😂
love it i lived there for many years great place
I was in this Documentary. Today in 2024, Gentrifuckcation watered down The Bay. But still here!
Just curious, where are you in the documentary? Would love to know and see who you were back in 1996. I was born and raised in the Castro, have many great memories there as a child and growing up. I do miss those days so much.
Every few years I find myself in the Castro's in the 70s 80s and 90s and every time I went it was changed a little bit I haven't been there in quite a few years and it seems like it's really going on I don't know and I lived in New York in the village in the same thing happened in The villages all yuppies now and fancy shops there's no more village of poor people and artists and I think the same thing is probably happened in the Castro
I remember watching this back in either 2000 or 2001
What is the date this was recorded?
'97
UA-cam has been supporting 60p for ten years. This presentation is neither at 60p nor 24p, but 30p - why? Also, UA-cam does not have rigid broadcast TV requirements for HD to use 16:9 frame, which begs the question - why have you pillarboxed 4:3 content into a 16:9 frame instead of using 4:3 frame? The way you've done it reduces the image size when watching on a phone in vertical orientation. KQED should learn how UA-cam operates. I hope you either have the original tape in the vault, or you have a proper 60p digital copy.
The Castro, just like ALL of San Francisco has become an out of control s**t show... It's been that way for the last 10 years.
Does anyone else remember the first "Just Desserts" shop in the 70's Castro ...the greatest bakery
I know this one will be very interesting story about Castro years & the beginning i remember we use too go there every Halloween it definitely was the place to be they party & the people were so beautiful ❤
Great story.
Hawaiian history is alive and strong. She got a bit confused. The concept is called Na'au and it is a place of refuge. Every island has one. On Maui where I live it is Oluwalu. A beautiful tiny tiny area where you pass thru on the way to Lahaina. Some will recognize it as where the big trees hang over the hwy. She erroneously spoke of it as an island. Most importantly she missed the entire reverence for Mahu. Healers that are both male and female. Asexual. Healers. Consider that! There's a n animated film on the Mahu on You Tube. Kapaemahu. Go watch it and then go see the stones on Oahu. Aloha my friends! 🎉❤🎉
Are they only for lgbt?
82-92 Sadly it has all changed for SF.
I lived in SF for 30 years, from 1969 to 1999, and finally left the city after retirement because it had become too expensive. I am appalled at how the criminal-favoring Democratic politicians have ruined the city, driving out the middle class, and turning Market Street into a haven for drug addicts. No wonder so many businesses are closing!
Actually the Deaf Community also have to find their family and community
Why didn't they mention the Compton's Cafeteria riot in 1966?
That was in a different neighborhood. We have a documentary about Compton's on our Arts channel though: ua-cam.com/video/G-WASW9dRBU/v-deo.htmlsi=wN6W64uS9O2VTUsj
Screaming Queens, a fantastic documentary. I have it on DVD.
@@kqed Any chance the Harry Hay or Emile Norman documentaries could be put up?
We thought the Apocalypse had hit the Castro in the early 80s!
SF is one of the creepiest places I’ve ever been.
How so?
@@tygertone rundown old wood buildings and public transit infrastructure. Not to mention of course the street zombies. Just an eerie vibe all around.
@@damonmelendez856 Understood. But, I'm from S. Diego / LA, and from my perspective, you have the BEST transit in the country!
Narrator name?
It sounds like Kathleen Turner?
@@shanecasebeer1364 I had to dig a little ... it's "Terri Orth-Pallavicini"
Me realizing this came out in 1997.. Wow! Still very much relevant today! I would have guessed it came out this year lol. I lived in the Castro around 2016. Somehow it was before I realized I was trans and a lesbian. I guess we all end up drawn to the Castro somehow and I was just slow to figure myself out lol. The gentrification was getting worse FAST back then due to tech and I bet it still is, so to see that the cost of living and gentrification was mentioned in a 1997 documentary is interesting. I was living in a typical SF style house with like 10 other people (cause that was how to afford living there), all of whom afaik were straight. I sure hope the neighborhood doesn't get destroyed by gentrification, as that would be a huge loss of this gem..
The shirt on the person at the start of the video tells me all I need to know.
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Male or female. I can't tell. Could be a Toxic T. I don't like it. They should be around anywhere.
So this is the place that got Disney World jealous.
Who ever said that Anita Bryant could sign? She sounds tone deaf
sing, not sign
lol!!
What an awful woman. Boy, she’d fit right in today!!! She’d be in her glory with all the Maga fools.
well, there was christopher street, in the '60s...
I wish I could afford to live there it looks amazing ❤
Now do one in 2023 showing how it all spiralled out of control.
The Castro is still a good neighborhood. You must not live in the city.
We know how it was ruined…
It was the
What happened?
Many neighborhoods in many cities “spiraled out of control” due to the urban effects of Covid and cost of living resulting in homelessness. It’s not unique to SF.
Straight girl misses her Dearest. friend Tom Connelly.
He was in the HARVEY MILK
GROUP..... ❤
Why are there so few views in 7 months?????
Where are all the “trans” viewers, who are in angst and seeking medicalization and surgical interventions????
They need to watch this. To take a breath. To take time to grow up in order to accept who they are 🙂
Everyone in the Castro calls it a Gayborhood
No true that Honaunau is an island. It is and was a designated area for refuge and neutrality.
Zombies, got cash for to do drugs? Got poo latrines? Got free support for using drugs? So san Francisco CA, a place to be, a go to area to be zombies?
Hmm.,.,
So why not advertise to the world? "Zombies, be on San Francisco CA" to have all the free goodies, free stuffs and all tax free & paid?,.,.,
Dustin Hoffman and not Sean Penn should have played Harvey because Dustin looks just like Harvey
A tad long but potent.
It's a shame that the alphabet identity politics ruined the community and the flag.
My Uncle and his partner left Minneapolis for SF the LA my Uncle died of AIDS he was a real hunk
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PALM SPRINGS IS THE BIG MECCA !
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Funny, went to toad Hall from 2010 to 2011 when I was still hanging out in that area, and it is the most cliche textbook young hot hot gays that went there. The exact opposite of a counterculture movement or hippie movement
It is NOT the geographical center of San Francisco. The geographic center is Mount Olympus located at the end of Upper Terrace Street.
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Too bad about what happened to San Fran. Stepping over feces and empty storefronts is a drag.
I am astounded the amount of empty stores. I don’t get it!!
@@julieann4616 Look at the city's leadership...You'll get it.
Blaqque is beautiful 😂
@@damonmelendez856 lol
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So I married an Axed Murder