[Rastus]

Some may be interested in reading his How America Went Gay, from which the following is taken:

A little off-topic, but when did San Francisco go gay? Was that another development of the late-'60s Haight-Ashbury days?

[Racehorse]

Actually, without thinking, I took the thread off topic with that link to Socraides' article. Don't know when San Francisco went gay, if it did. Would be interesting social history to read when and how gays gained such political clout in a major city.