Fifteen granite pylons arranged in a triangular shape rise from this site, marking the first permanent memorial in the United States dedicated to LGBTQ people persecuted during the Holocaust. You can identify the space by these angled…
Castro Queer Liberation History
This walk guides you through the historic heart of the Castro to see where the modern LGBTQ+ civil rights movement took shape, from Harvey Milk's political headquarters to poignant memorials and pioneering community spaces.
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1. Pink Triangle Memorial
2. Harvey Milk Plaza
Harvey Milk Plaza sits at the intersection of Market and Castro streets, marked by a prominent flagpole flying the rainbow flag. This space occupies the area above the Castro Muni Metro station, which opened in nineteen eighty. The plaza…
3. Jane Warner Plaza
Jane Warner Plaza sits at the busy convergence of Castro, Market, and Seventeenth Streets. It is a paved pedestrian space defined by colorful movable café chairs, planters filled with palms and succulents, and the constant, rhythmic…
4. Twin Peaks Tavern
Twin Peaks Tavern is marked by its expansive, full-length plate glass windows that open the interior to the intersection of Castro and Market Streets. Housed in a building first constructed in eighteen eighty-three with a nineteen…
5. The Castro Theatre
The Castro Theatre is easily recognized by its towering, ornate blade sign that rises high above the sidewalk, glowing with neon lights that have defined this corner for nearly a century. Built in nineteen twenty-two, this movie palace was…
6. GLBT Historical Society Museum
The GLBT Historical Society Museum occupies a compact storefront at four thousand one hundred twenty-seven Eighteenth Street. This sixteen hundred square foot space, which opened in January two thousand eleven, functions as the first…
7. Castro Camera
Castro Camera at five seventy-five Castro Street began in nineteen seventy-two when Harvey Milk and his partner, Scott Smith, invested their final one thousand dollars to open a shop. While the business sold cameras and film, it functioned…