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History: West Coast's Stonewall and how SF became a gay Mecca

Looking back at San Francisco's queer past
Collage: David Boyer
Looking back at San Francisco's queer past

This week, we’re digging into San Francisco's queer history Out in the Bay talks with Nan Boyd, historian and author of Wide Open Town about how the city became a gay Mecca. Then, Making Gay History revisits a pivotal confrontation between San Francisco’s police and the city’s gay community in 1965 — four years before Stonewall.