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Get Local Color at Jane Warner Plaza
Across Castro St by the F-train terminus is Jane Warner Plaza , a collection of soci-
able cafe tables named for the Castro's trailblazing lesbian police officer. Whenever
temperatures nudge above 70°F (21°C), the neighborhood converges here for sun and
local color - including gold-lamé thongs. Public nudity was banned in SF in 2012,
after full-frontal tanning here surprised too many passing motorists; now exhibition-
ists get creative with coverage.
Toast at Twin Peaks Tavern
Somewhere over the giant neon rainbow is Twin Peaks ( 415-864-9470;
www.twinpeakstavern.com ; 401 Castro St; noon-2am Mon-Fri, from 8am Sat & Sun; Castro) , the
world's first gay bar with windows open to the street. Raise a toast to freedom, watch
the gay world go by, and join the inevitable sing-along whenever an '80s anthem hits
the jukebox.
Cheer at Castro Theatre
At the deco-fabulous Castro Theatre ( 415-621-6120; www.thecastrotheatre.com ; 429 Castro
St; adult/child $11/8.50; Tue-Sun; Castro) , show tunes on a Wurlitzer are overtures to
independent cinema, silver-screen gems and cult classics. Everyone cheers as the or-
ganist plays the anthem from the 1936 film San Francisco (sing along, now): 'San
Francisco, open your Golden Gate/You let no stranger wait outside your door…'
Look Back at GLBT History Museum
America's first gay-history museum, GLBT History Museum (
415-777-5455;
www.glbthistory.org/museum ; 4127 18th St; admission $5; 11am-7pm Mon-Sat, noon-5pm Sun; Castro)
captures proud moments and historic challenges: Harvey Milk's campaign literature,
interviews with trailblazing bisexual author Gore Vidal, matchbooks from long-gone
bathhouses and 1950s penal codes banning homosexuality.
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