Photographs from Out in the Castro
Desire, Promise, Activism
Edited by Winston Leyland
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l to r: Harvey Milk, writer Frank Robinson, and Broadway play director,
Tom O'Horgan in Harvey Milk's Castro camera shop, ca. 1977, the year
before Harvey's assassination.
Photo: Scot Smith. © Collection Frank M. Robinson.
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"Shirley MacLaine and the Dog Boy"
Shirley MacLaine judges a contestant at the Annual Castro Dog Show,
a fundraiser for AIDS charities, on Castro Street, San Francisco, 1982.
Photo © Greg Day
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Two sexy boys at
Castro and 18th Streets talk to the driver of a classic car,
Sunday, August 21, 1977. Note the banner
at top left indicating a sports
game between the gay softball league and the police.
Would that all relationships between the two had been so rosy!
Photo ©Crawford Barton
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ISSAN DORSEY ROSHI in
the garden of Hartford St. Zen Center (Castro), 5/1/1990, the
year he died of AIDS. He was a Soto Zen monk and profound teacher
in the tradition of Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi, and first Abbot of Issanji
Temple in the Castro, as well as founder of Maitri Hospice. See
work on him and by him in Queer
Dharma, Voices of Gay Buddhists,
v. 1, ed. by Winston Leyland, Gay Sunshine Press, 1997.
Photo: ©Rick
Gerharter
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Repairing a quilt panel at the Castro District office
of the Names project, 2/18/1990.
Photo: ©Rick Gerharter |
Chinese ink and color on paper, 2000,
©Freddie Niem
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"Hold on to your husbands, girls. The Casanova
of Castro Street has arrived."
Cartoon © Gerard Donelan 1983
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