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I wasn't expecting the first 2/3s of the page to be mostly about Finnish diplomatic and naval relations with Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries. I find this pretty strange and off topic for a page about "The Castro District", especially since a lot of it appears to be copy/pasted from other articles where the text is barely on topic for *that* article. (Looking at you, Kalevala.) I understand that there's a lot of Nordic and Scandinavian pride around here, but the focus of this one group to the exclusion of the many others who lived here during the times discussed is jarring and ahistorical. I would humbly ask the other folks interested in this page to help edit to keep it on topic. -- ContextSans ( talk) 05:03, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Someone Vandalized this page from my computer it needs reverting. I tried to do it but there was an edit conflict. I hope this means someone else is already on it 65.125.163.221 07:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
i have just removed two conflicting attributions, one to Joaquin Ysidro Castro and the other to José Castro. my brief googling was not able to ascertain which is correct. i assume the district was named for the street and the street for one of these historical figures. still, attention from someone with better sources would be appreciated. Aaronbrick 02:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
I have a concern regarding the emphasis placed, in this article, on real estate agent Paul Langley. As a historian who specializes in urban and LGBTQ history and who is involved in an ongoing research project about the Castro, I can safely say that the historical interpretation advanced here - that Langley's "active promotion of the neighborhood as a gay center and his many community activities in support of building a gay community there contributed greatly to its success as a gay neighborhood" - is not a viewpoint that can be found in any of the sundry published academic studies that are devoted, in whole or in part, to explaining the origins of the Castro district. Certainly real estate agents played a role in the area's transformation, and a role that deserves to be given proper weight and an accurate rendering. But Langley was not the only such real estate agent. In fact, to suggest that he was sufficiently more important than the others so as to warrant being mentioned by name, seems to me a highly tendentious interpretation, i.e., one that does not belong in a reference work. I invite replies and further discussion. --
SRisk1979 — Preceding
undated comment added 06:46, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
I moved to San Franciso in 1980 and what historical information I have was taught me by a mentor friend of mine who moved to the Castro around 1960. Broadly, there was a Beatnik movement in the in the 1950's in the Northbeach neighborhood. Thereafter in the 60's the Hippie movement began, which was centered in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood, and was typified by "free love" which in turn spawned the gay movement. As the Gay Movement split as a separate culture, gays began to move into the Castro neighborhood in the 60's, just over the Buena Vista hill. Prior to that time the area to the north of Castro Street was predominately Irish, and to the south was Scandinavian. The area was a run-down neighborhood with dilapidated houses and metal bars on the shop windows of the Castro. The gays began to purchase the old Victorian homes and restored them which kicked off the Victorian "Painted Lady" restoration movement. A new gay identity emerged which brought people out of the closet and normalized gay behavior. There is an interesting documentary, The Cockettes, which shows original footage of the period of San Francisco and Gay culture, and features Divine, John Waters, Peter Mintun, and others. Other notable benchmarks in gay history in and around the Castro are the Death of Harvey Milk, and although a New York action, Stonewall had a major impact on the culture in San Francisco. Sexual freedom reigned until the late 80's when AIDS came to town. At that point Gay Pride redefined itself and gay neighborhoods spread throughout the major cities in the US. It was no longer necessary to come to San Francisco (or New York) to be gay, and The Castro neighborhood blended into the multi-cultural/ multi-ethnic tapestry which makes San Francisco one of the best cities on the planet.
Mokiach 06:39, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
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Does anybody know what flag held by the guy on bike is, the blue-black-white one with a heart? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mongol ( talk • contribs) 22:54, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
That's the Leather Pride flag. it mean's he has leather pride, as well as interest in a leather fetish. you can see those all over my home town of San Francisco. Stevo D — Preceding undated comment added 06:40, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
The body of the article states that Castro has a 'gay majority', and yet the demographic section states that gay people account for 41% of the population. Which is true? The information contradicts itself as it stands. Leoniceno ( talk) 22:01, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Firefox stopped me from visiting it, saying it had been marked as a philsing/malware site.-- Occono ( talk) 23:11, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to go ahead and remove it-- Occono ( talk) 17:40, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Are either of these links (Project Scum and the 49 Mile Scenic Drive) really relevant to this page? SCUM is pretty minor and the drive barely even goes through the neighborhood. Emhawkins ( talk) 05:43, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
OK, I'll remove this. Thanks. Emhawkins ( talk) 02:38, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
If there is any definition of "white flight," it certainly applies to the exodus of Nordic-ancestry people from the aging Victorian flats of Eureka Valley in the 1960s to 1970s. Therefore I have re-characterized their action from the colorless "moved" to "fled." 173.228.44.72 ( talk) 04:58, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Most significant maybe, but largest? How about Chelsea, NYC. Not sure, but it won't hurt to check. Norcalal ( talk) 09:13, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
No consensus to move. Vegaswikian ( talk) 19:40, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
The Castro, San Francisco → The Castro — No reason to DAB CTJF83 04:14, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Should we move this article to simply Castro District? I'm not sure the disambiguation is necessary. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:23, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
A sentence in the introduction claims that the Castro "is widely considered America's first gay neighborhood, and is currently the largest and best-known." That it is the largest is well documented, and that it is at least one of the best known is undeniable, but that it is the first is almost certainly not true. Both Provincetown and Greenwich Village were well-known for their gay populations long before the Castro emerged as identifiably gay (according to this article) in the 1960s, and even before gays began moving to the Castro after World War II.
This article itself even contradicts that claim, when it says, "Many San Francisco gays also moved there after about 1970 from what had been the formerly most prominent gay neighborhood, Polk Gulch [...]." If Polk Gulch was formerly the most prominent gay neighborhood in San Francisco, then how can the Castro be the first gay neighborhood in America? "... is widely considered ..." is weasel-talk anyway and strongly suggests that the statement is at least partially some editor's personal opinion.
I searched back through several revisions looking for the source of this statement, and in doing so I encountered so many interim revisions (most notably changing "the world's first" to just "America's first") that I gave up trying to find the claim's original appearance.
Since the "first" part of that grandiose claim is highly debatable, and "best-known" is neither incontestably true (on the East Coast at least, Provincetown, Key West and Chelsea are gay meccas at least as well known currently as the Castro) nor documented here with reliable references, I am going to amend that statement to the following:
-- Jim10701 ( talk) 16:15, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
I reverted an edit that asserted that Castro ends at 30th Street. There's a small and little-known section between Chenery and Bemis in Glen Park: See https://maps.google.com/maps?q=castro+and+chenery,+san+francisco&hl=en&ll=37.734069,-122.431297&spn=0.008909,0.018475&sll=40.365277,-82.669252&sspn=4.39424,9.459229&hnear=Castro+St+%26+Chenery+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94131&t=m&z=16 for proof. -- tgeller ( talk) 19:32, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
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Apparently there has been controversy in this locality over humans going about their daily lives in their natural state, opponents seeking to criminalise it on the basis that it makes insecure observers uncomfortable:
This seems salient to include in this article somewhere, but none of the sections extant now seem related. I realise some people would consider possession of a naked body a sexually-related matter and lump it together under the LGBTIQA+ banner, but naturism is unrelated to MOGAI or SOGI. 49.195.122.225 ( talk) 04:38, 20 July 2020 (UTC)