Harvey Milk was born on and died on November 27, 1978. At the same time, the neighborhood became a lightning rod for America’s growing discomfort with the new openness of gays in their midst.” And its “Mayor” was none other than Harvey Milk. The Castro of the 1970s became, for many gays and lesbians, both a haven from prejudice, and a model for joining the fabric of middle-class American society. For the first time, this long-persecuted minority had the audacity to lay claim to a residential neighborhood as its own - and to begin exercising its own political and economic clout. “What happened in the Castro changed the way Americans viewed gays and lesbians. Castro Street, San Francisco is and always has been a central hub for those in the LGBT movement.
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