As a mom in San Jose, San Francisco is a very difficult place to visit with kids. There are wonderful places there, but you have to go through lots of awful places too.
My kids have not been through Castro, but we have driven past the strip joints on Broadway. I pretty much make jokes about it.
My kids like parts of SF, and can’t stand other parts. We always get our fill after a day up there.
Hey San Francisco, you stinking liberal hypocrites, when are you going to raise a memorial to the gays murdered by Islam?
Next question?
In fact, this question applies to ALL U.S. CITIES, where leftist politics dominate! If the left succeeds in eliminating the Electoral College, then it will be the U.S. cities that will determine who all future POTUS will be, forever!
Were any of the kids taken on the Castro tour without parental permission?
Taking kids into that city is nothing short of child abuse.
I’m sure daring to question this trip will, under Obama’s civility rules, get the person called names and claims they hate gays and are no different than Hitler.
Castro is totally inappropriate for kids.
Just as letting walk past sex shops would be.
It is certainly appropriate for young ‘gay’ kids.
No Homos!
I dunno, this IS SanFran afterall. Who’s to say that none of these boys has a gay parent? I can tell you that place is not appropriate for anyone in MY family, gay or straight, young or old.
A friend of mine grew up in the Castro district. She said that by the time she was 12, she still had no idea how men and women had sex, but she had witnessed a dozen ways that men and men did it.
The comments underneath are all pro the trip and how bigotted everyone must be.
What the libs try hard to ignore, is that for all these rabid progressives screaming at you how biased you must be, people with children simply are leaving SF.
They are doing everything to attract families and it’s not happening. SF is giving all kinds of money and insurance to children, but it’s not working. It’s causing all kinds of problems there, and they just can’t seem to convince folk they are kid friendly.
If you do take them there just remember to make sure that
they don’t look back when they leave. They may turn into a
pillar of salt.
when I was young and naive, I vacationed in SF & decided to walk into the Castro district to see how bad it was. A convertible full of homosexuals drove past me & they whistled at me and said a variety of things to me that I(thankfully) didn’t understand at that time. It was absolutely terrifying and I left immediately. This was decades ago and I haven’t been back, but if it’s anything at all like that these days then it’s definitely not a place for young boys in particular, or any children for that matter.
the gay community, as a whole, is an ageing community with far less converts today than 20 years ago. There was a story not long ago about West Hollywood gays lamenting the enroachment of hetero yummie couples on ‘their’ town. The drive to indoctrinate the young in an effort to preserve the gay culture beyond its natural lifespan pushes the age envelope ever lower.
Castro and the Tenderloin are no places for impressionable children, much less most normal adults.
Never been there, never will in the future either. I imagine it would be like taking your family to the Southern Decadence festival in the New Orleans French Quarter.
I think the question should be “Is San Francisco appropriate for young kids?
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