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.

@josedacosta9847

3 ай бұрын

That’s a place out of my wishing list.

@yesic7196

2 ай бұрын

Can you do one on hispanic/latina culture in Sf bayarea? Thank you

@salvatorericca8353

Ай бұрын

@@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!

@richardbernard6845

Ай бұрын

thank you

@9lavender

Ай бұрын

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

@kqed

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

@hunkhk

2 ай бұрын

And all the amazing heros who shared their stories, very inspiring

@RichardBarron_

Ай бұрын

Unaffordable to live

Thank you so much for uploading this. LGBTQIA History is SO important to share. ❤

I'm so pleased that you uploaded this documentary, which is an important chronicle of San Francisco for posterity.

I would love to see a follow up on the people in this documentary.

@MGinSF

20 күн бұрын

I know that Robert (of Thomas and Robert) passed away in 2014. I think Thomas is living in Palm Springs.

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.

@DaxtonKnight

Ай бұрын

Have you been in the past few years?

It was wonderful to view this again. I saw it when it was first broadcast on KQED. I was living in San Francisco then (1989 to 2021). As I no longer live there it was very nostalgic to watch it and remember the city I called home for so long.

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!

This was my SF and my brother John's .....he is gone now and this place is no longer what it once was....

@MrCabrera111

5 күн бұрын

How has it changed? I'm curious, thx

Só proud to have been a part of It..❤

That was outstanding !!!! Thank you for creating this historical record of merit for us and the world

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.

Beautiful documentary. Thank you for posting.

I remember this documentary. Glad to see it once again. Thanks for posting 😊

Someone needs to make a video documentary on "Where Are They Now"?

@davidkennerly

Ай бұрын

Well, of the people I personally knew in this film, none of them are still alive.

@RichardBarron_

Ай бұрын

Deceased

@MGinSF

20 күн бұрын

Cleve Jones is very much alive and well, living in Guerneville. Thomas Van Etten is living in Palm Springs I believe. His husband Robert passed away in 2014.

@davidkennerly

19 күн бұрын

@@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.

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.

@davidkennerly

Ай бұрын

I'm sure we saw each other since I lived in the Duboce Triangle at the same time. Cheers!

@salvatorericca8353

Ай бұрын

@@davidkennerly :)

Great channel! San Francisco will always be a fantastic city!! ❤❤❤

@charlestaylor1693

Ай бұрын

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.

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.

This sure reminds me of why I loved living in the Castro!

Great documentary very moving and informative!! Press on ! 💜💜💜

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

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.

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.

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.

A powerful documentary. Our young people need to know this history. Thanks! Definitely a 2 hanky film.

Thank you for this video

I'm so glad that HIV is no longer a death sentence

@hunkhk

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for that comment, all those beautiful people who died too young we must always cherish their legacy

@scotabot7826

Ай бұрын

But, there are many, many other death sentences!!!!! Beware of the dark, seek the light!

@sharonrigs7999

Ай бұрын

@@hunkhk Absolutely. Remember all those we lost and be grateful that a single pill a day can (often) keep you undetectable

@avalondreaming1433

Ай бұрын

​@@hunkhkWe must never forget those that were lost...

@olavwilhelm6843

Ай бұрын

people still must take it serious

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

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

@user-ct9nm8lq5v

2 ай бұрын

I went there in 1999 for an AA conference 😀 me a group of my home group friends 😀 beautiful city 🏳️‍🌈

@user-ct9nm8lq5v

2 ай бұрын

& 😳 we had the conference at the Billy Graham Auditorium 😇 buhahaha 👅

@yesic7196

2 ай бұрын

​@@user-ct9nm8lq5vby 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.

@user-ct9nm8lq5v

2 ай бұрын

@yesic7196 no 😀 & I'm still sober today 🙏 the emoji is in reference to where the conference was held 👅

@RaymondHng

2 ай бұрын

@@user-ct9nm8lq5v 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.

Seeing this in 2024 - 27 years later. I'm now in my mid-70's. What is it like today ?!?

@yesic7196

2 ай бұрын

If the streets could talk. ❤

@user-ne3yw2cu6c

Ай бұрын

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.

@LiveTilliDie

Ай бұрын

Capitalism ruined the area. It's too expensive now for any young person to live here who is not rich.

@JimLinger

Ай бұрын

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.

@davidkennerly

Ай бұрын

It's far less exciting, today than it was in the 70s and 80s. It was never the same again after the outbreak.

Great story.

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 ???

Excellent documentary! Thanks KQED!! About love not hate ❤!!😮

such a great documentary

In my opinion, it does not matter who you love. We are humans and children of God.

Such a interesting watch, I can’t wait to visit ❤

@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci

12 күн бұрын

I know it's changed a lot but visit it and enjoy it it's wonderful

The club they show in this documentary is Studio 54 in NY.

I remember this documentary series aired on PBS and it was available on DVD, where can I find the DVD copy of this series?

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!😂

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! 🎉❤🎉

love it i lived there for many years great place

What is the date this was recorded?

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.😉

0:00 Film maker Rick Bacigalupi produced a documentary short _Only in the Castro with Trevor Hailey_

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 ❤

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.

@katyaflippinov9197

2 ай бұрын

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.

@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci

12 күн бұрын

I guess we're more like straight people than we would like to admit right?

Where are these people now? Would love to know.❤

@kinkystud510

2 ай бұрын

Sup wit it, still here! 2024 ❤

@Dimi374

2 ай бұрын

@@kinkystud510 hey! How’s it going? Hope all is well.❤️

@Jessica-ou2fb

17 күн бұрын

Charlie Mackenzie and Harriet

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. 😢

I liked this video. Mainly the nostalgia. I'm straight. But really enjoyed

The Castro depicted in this 1997 documentary is gone, unrecognizable and nothing like she was 27 yers ago. I know becasue I was there.

@salvatorericca8353

Ай бұрын

I agree, I was there at the same time as well.

Where did everyone work and stuff, is there alot of factories around sf

@RaymondHng

2 ай бұрын

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 wish I could afford to live there it looks amazing ❤

We thought the Apocalypse had hit the Castro in the early 80s!

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?

@ron4501

3 ай бұрын

Just like the extreme homophobia in the black community is never acknowledged.

@billpincheon23

Ай бұрын

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.

@misslady5029

27 күн бұрын

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.....

well, there was christopher street, in the '60s...

❤

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

2 ай бұрын

❤ So true!!

@lennyvelez5929

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

@pbc76

Ай бұрын

Fact. Still.

@lilithstribe

Ай бұрын

After a time even Lesbians were edged out and over to Noe Valley.

@Dimi374

Ай бұрын

@@lennyvelez5929 kzread.info/dash/bejne/YmpktKSigpTbgMY.htmlsi=ifTGGg4wxKplrkKF

The shirt on the person at the start of the video tells me all I need to know.

@alexadam353

2 ай бұрын

@polarfamily6222 Male or female. I can't tell. Could be a Toxic T. I don't like it. They should be around anywhere.

Actually the Deaf Community also have to find their family and community

Straight girl misses her Dearest. friend Tom Connelly. He was in the HARVEY MILK GROUP..... ❤

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

Why didn't they mention the Compton's Cafeteria riot in 1966?

@kqed

2 ай бұрын

That was in a different neighborhood. We have a documentary about Compton's on our Arts channel though: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eWGLo7WQace4crg.htmlsi=wN6W64uS9O2VTUsj

@simonfea2

Ай бұрын

Screaming Queens, a fantastic documentary. I have it on DVD.

@hillside21

Ай бұрын

@@kqed Any chance the Harry Hay or Emile Norman documentaries could be put up?

A tad long but potent.

Narrator name?

@shanecasebeer1364

2 ай бұрын

It sounds like Kathleen Turner?

@crazyforitaly2021

2 ай бұрын

@@shanecasebeer1364 I had to dig a little ... it's "Terri Orth-Pallavicini"

Who ever said that Anita Bryant could sign? She sounds tone deaf

@timmiller1954

2 ай бұрын

sing, not sign

@julieann4616

2 ай бұрын

lol!!

@riandraegon556

Ай бұрын

What an awful woman. Boy, she’d fit right in today!!! She’d be in her glory with all the Maga fools.

82-92 Sadly it has all changed for SF.

Gayborhood!😅

Now do one in 2023 showing how it all spiralled out of control.

@DEADYT5000

4 ай бұрын

The Castro is still a good neighborhood. You must not live in the city.

@keithjohnson3199

2 ай бұрын

We know how it was ruined…

@keithjohnson3199

2 ай бұрын

It was the

@ledaswan5990

2 ай бұрын

What happened?

@harperwelch5147

2 ай бұрын

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.

SF is one of the creepiest places I’ve ever been.

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!

No true that Honaunau is an island. It is and was a designated area for refuge and neutrality.

So I married an Axed Murder

It is NOT the geographical center of San Francisco. The geographic center is Mount Olympus located at the end of Upper Terrace Street.

🏳‍🌈

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 🙂

Too bad about what happened to San Fran. Stepping over feces and empty storefronts is a drag.

@julieann4616

2 ай бұрын

I am astounded the amount of empty stores. I don’t get it!!

@argopunk

2 ай бұрын

@@julieann4616 Look at the city's leadership...You'll get it.

@damonmelendez856

Ай бұрын

Blaqque is beautiful 😂

@julieann4616

Ай бұрын

@@damonmelendez856 lol

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.

The heart is not in the center of ur chest its in the left side so saying its the heart cuz its in the center doesn't make sense if u are literally speaking

@briannamay5459

3 ай бұрын

No, the heart is in the center and leans left

@j.richards2346

2 ай бұрын

🙄

@kenster8270

2 ай бұрын

Wait till you hear about heartburn. Or the letter double U. Your OCD is gonna shoot through the roooof! In Minnesota we'd yell: ROOF-DAH!

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?,.,.,

It's a shame that the alphabet identity politics ruined the community and the flag.

it's a shame!

Weh weh weh… Too expensive? Or you’re entitled to be in a place people literally killed themselves to build?

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?

They won't enter God Kingdom so sad but I feel sorry for them most are kind of kind people but in the commandments God said they won't enter God Kingdom

please no

@NoelNunez-li8wk

5 ай бұрын

Homophobic?

@soft_serve_666

4 ай бұрын

Imagine being so miserable in your own life life that you have to SEEK OUT videos about people proudly living theirs and shit on it. How sad is that? What are you even doing here? No one forced you to search this out on KZread and watch it! Seek help, dude.

4 ай бұрын

Too late! It already happened decades ago, long before I was born, probably before your were born as well.

@larriveeman

3 ай бұрын

@@NoelNunez-li8wk are you christianphobic? or conservativephobic?

@NoelNunez-li8wk

3 ай бұрын

@@larriveeman none of

Sad that this is what America is defined by.

@simonfea2

Ай бұрын

Uh?

SF can have these creatures.

haha what? stick to cooking videos

@bretthouston1

2 ай бұрын

Ahle

I grew up in the Castro in the 80s 90s , I couldn’t stand it so cringe!😊

@MJ-qb5ph

2 ай бұрын

Why? In what ways?

@Brian-sh4sm

2 ай бұрын

@@MJ-qb5ph it was no place for a kid to grow up, I saw too much to early!

@salvatorericca8353

Ай бұрын

@@Brian-sh4sm Where about in the neighborhood did you live? I grew up there in the 80's and 90's as well, and I know what you mean in a lot of ways about seeing too much too early. But it still was a good neighborhood, safe, pretty, and relatively clean.

I was in this Documentary. Today in 2024, Gentrifuckcation watered down The Bay. But still here!

@salvatorericca8353

Ай бұрын

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.