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Come Out for Castro Valley Celebration, July 12
Now that we’ve celebrated San Francisco Pride, it’s time to strike the road (or hop on BART) and head to one of the most enthusiastic and meaningful Pride celebrations in all of California: Castro Valley Pride. It’s a fabulous Pride celebration in the sometimes-sleepy suburban community of Castro Valley, 30 miles southeast of San Francisco. But things will be anything but sleepy on July
Castro Valley Pride is the brainchild of Castro Valley Lofty School students and Billy Bradford, a seasoned and fearless activist with Marriage Equality USA and GetEqual. A longtime resident of Castro Valley, Billy stands up for what’s right—leading countless rallies all over the Bay Area for marriage equality and for full LGBTQ equality in all 50 states. He also sits down to risk arrest in the confront of injustice, whether protesting Proposition 8, religious intolerance, or the Chick-fil-A owner’s anti-LGBTQ views.
A queer dad himself, Billy’s most important perform perhaps is inspiring and empowering students and other little people in Castro Valley
We put the Castro in Castro Valley
After more than two decades living in the San Francisco suburb Castro Valley, Dale Albright and Bob Miller are packing for good and leaving for Santa Fe.
“We put the Castro in Castro Valley,” quips Dale, who left his employment as managing director of Theater Bay Area to work at Santa Fe’s own Lensic Theater (coincidentally located on San Francisco Street).
The couple had been visiting Santa Fe frequently for about 15 years with an eye to eventually move here. I met them in when they were renting an Airbnb in Eldorado. Appreciate most clients-turned-friends, we associated when they did a Google search for homosexual real estate agents in the area. Over the next few years, Bob and Dale went to a lot of reveal houses. “When people asked if we had a realtor, we’d say ‘Mark,’ and they’d all declare that we were in good hands,” Bob recalls.
A Fast-Tracked Dream
Their dream of an eventual move to Santa Fe took a big step closer to reality about a year ago when Dale received a job offer from The Lensic. He moved here and starting a house hunt, while Bob wrapped up things i
Vibrant and eclectic, the Castro/Upper Market neighborhood is an internationally established symbol of gay freedom, a top tourist destination full of stylish shops and popular amusement spots, and a thriving residential area that thousands of San Franciscans call home.
Its streets are filled with lovingly restored Victorian homes, rainbow pride flags, shops offering one-of-a-kind merchandise, heritage streetcars, lively bars and restaurants, and numerous gay-borhood landmarks including Harvey Milk Plaza, the Castro Theatre, Pink Triangle Park and Memorial, and the large SF Sapphic Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center.
The Castro District, better known as The Castro, is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, which is also known as Eureka Valley.
San Francisco&#;s gay village is most concentrated in the business district that is located on Castro Street from Market Highway to 19th Street. It extends down Market Street toward Church and on both sides of the Castro neighborhood from Church Street to Eureka Street. Although the greater gay community was, and is, conc
Among my army of amazing friends and community, we have a few aesthetic tropes that are common&#;tattoos chief among them. When I was younger and still shedding muggle ideas of normalcy I call to mind being sort of shocked when someone would just get a tattoo on a whim. You didn&#;t plot this for years and meticulously scour for the right artist? You got it off the wall?
Not everyone thinks like a Capricorn with a Virgo rising. I&#;m an Earth sign. Permanency is a big choice. Some people tattoo on whims and some people tattoo with great plans and down payments and sessions. Most folks merge a bit of both.
That&#;s not the tattoo point I wanted to make. There&#;s a pattern in my tattooed friends&#; bodies. They get house state nostalgia tattoos. They come in lots of types, an esoteric homage, a sign, but most common is a guide outline with optional abode city starred.
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Heart where the hometown is. Photo courtesy Amanda Arkansassy. You can check out the livefeed of the exhibit she is co-curating on June 13th, Y&#;all Advance Back Now: Queer Stories