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Why is San Francisco So Gay?

Posted November 24, 2008 to photo album "Why is San Francisco So Gay?"

Slide 1: How gay is San Francisco?
Slide 2: Sodomy by the Bay
Slide 3: Queerness Sewn into the City's Social Fabric
Slide 4: When it Started
Slide 5: The Really Wild West
Slide 6: A City out of Control
Slide 7: Vice Cracks Down
Slide 8: Heaven or Hell?
Slide 9: Gays in the Golden Gate
Slide 10: A
Slide 11: That Lady is a Dude!
Slide 12: Wickedest Town on the Continent
Slide 13: Open Arms Policy
Slide 14: The Black Cat
Slide 15: Greatest Gay Bar in America
Slide 16: Telling the Story
Slide 17: The City in Fiction
Slide 18: Why So Queer?
Slide 19: The Gay Bar as Center
Slide 20: Out of the Bars, into the Streets
Slide 21: Lowering the Bar
Slide 22: Complete Haven for Undesirables
Slide 23: After the War
Slide 24: Men Everywhere
Slide 25: Making it Public
Slide 26: Time to Move to San Francisco
Slide 27: Everyone Went There
Slide 28: The Crime is Getting Caught
Slide 29: God Save the Queen
Slide 30: Can't Arrest Us All
Slide 31: Very Bold Queens
Slide 32: Gays Fight Back
Slide 33: Religion and the Homosexual
Slide 34: Gays March On
Slide 35: Taking the City Back
Slide 28: The Crime is Getting Caught

Slide 28: The Crime is Getting Caught

The bar was famous as the venue for José Sarria, a wildly popular drag performer who sang parodies of popular torch songs. Sarria was known for his wit: "There's nothing wrong with being gay—the crime is getting caught," and "United we stand, divided they catch us one by one."