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celebrated throughout June, San Fran-
cisco is on the mind of many gays who
respected the openly gay member of the city's
board of supervisors. More than 30 years later,
SF is still a symbol of gay culture the world over.
A map of the City by the Bay is a catalogue of
familiarly named neighborhoods and pop cul-
ture landmarks: The Castro, Russian Hill, The
Embarcadero, Chinatown, The Presidio. There is
no one San Francisco experience, though cer-
tainly there are touristy things to do, like head-
ng to Fishermen's Wharf. Try to avoid them. Or
don't, but know you're not necessarily in for a
unique experience (the eateries and "boutiques"
on the Wharf are as generic as Iowa.)
Still, even the ordinary can seem extraordi-
nary in SF. For instance, wandering the Haight-
Ashbury District is "touristy," but still worth it.
In what other way can the MUM be trans-
formed into a time machine?
There's plenty of public transport here, but it
can be confusing, with BART (Bay Area Rapid
Transit) and the MUNI (the city-wide bus and
rail system) separate but somewhat parallel sys-
tems that often share the same stations but are
priced differently. Get a Clipper card, which is
accepted at both, and just keep track of what you
need to ride. You'll definitely want to use the
MUM — San Francisco is an impossibly hillv
town that might wear out car-happy flatlanders
like us Texans. And the famed cable cars aren't
all that common, and can be luxuries to ride
with long waits. (Many of the MUM buses look
like cable cars, similar to Dallas' McKinney Av-
enue Trolley system.)
San Fran (which no one here would ever call
it; ditto "Frisco") is dense with restos, so you
can eat 1,000 ways, from Tex-Mex (not bad,
though Dallas has it beat) to Chinese (real, au-
thentic flavors) to almost any other kind of
cuisine you can imagine. It's also a cash-
friendly city, especially at the many mom-and-
pop coffeehouses and neighborhood bodegas
and brunch spots where dropping a credit
card will be met with quizzical looks. They
may be sophisticated, but they keep things off
the books here.
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gay ground zero | The Castro Theater still operates in the famed district that is the center of gay cul-
ture in San Francisco, if not the Western Hemisphere. (Arnold Wayne Jones/Dallas Voice)
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Wright, John. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 2012, newspaper, June 22, 2012; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth308872/m1/46/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.