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Store. Below decks, kids be writing tall tales for dark nights asea, and ye can study making
video games and magazines and suchlike, if that be yer dastardly inclination…arrrr!

Mission Dolores CHURCH
(Misión San Francisco de Asís; MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 415-621-8203; www.missiondolores.org ; 3321

16th St; adult/child $5/3; 9am-4pm Nov-Apr, to 4:30pm May-Oct; 22, 33, 16th St Mission,

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The city's oldest building was founded in 1776 and rebuilt in 1782 with conscripted
Ohlone and Miwok labor - a graveyard memorial hut commemorates 5000 Native laborers
who died of hardship and measles epidemics. Today the original adobe is overshadowed
by the ornate 1913 Churrigueresque basilica, featuring stained-glass windows of Califor-
nia's 21 missions.

GLBT History Museum MUSEUM
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 415-621-1107; www.glbthistory.org/museum ; 4127 18th St; admission $5,
1st Wed of month free; 11am-7pm Mon, Wed-Sat, noon-5pm Sun; Castro)
America's first gay-history museum captures proud moments and historic challenges: Har-
vey Milk's campaign literature, interviews with trailblazing bisexual author Gore Vidal,
matchbooks from long-gone bathhouses and 1950s penal codes banning homosexuality.

Harvey Milk & Jane Warner Plazas SQUARE
(Market & Castro Sts; Castro)
A huge rainbow flag welcomes arrivals to Harvey Milk Plaza ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 24,
33, F, Castro St) , where a display honors the Castro camera-store owner who was assassin-
ated not long after becoming America's first out gay official - but who remains an icon of
civil rights and civic pride. By the F-train terminus is Jane Warner Plaza ( MAP
GOOGLE MAP ) , named for the Castro's trailblazing lesbian police officer. The community
converges here for sun and local color - including thong-clad protestors of SF's 2013 nud-
ity ban.

Human Rights Campaign Action Center HISTORIC SITE