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12 years ago. A man was killed when he was struck by a street car here at this stop in Dolores Park right next to a community known as Eureka Valley earlier in the evening? The man had been beaten up by four young people who later admitted

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that they were out queer hunting somehow or another. The man stumbled onto the tracks when he was struck by the streetcar. Nevertheless, the four young men were convicted of first degree murder. two of those young people were remembers of Eureka Valley feelings and attitudes may not

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have changed much since then. Gays are still taunted and attacked in the street. But the Eureka Valley community has gone through a radical change in recent years. Residents have discovered that almost overnight their neighborhood has become san Francisco's new gay mecca? It's

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only in my opinion. All right, yes. Mhm. You make it? I don't believe you. Mm hmm. Kendra. Mm hmm, 1934. And they said the Castle Street was going to be the gay capital of

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San Francisco and it is, it is the gay capital of San Francisco. That's how you feel. Do you resent that? Because do you think it's good or bad or what they take they go their way and we go our way. Castro isn't what it used to

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be. How was it? How did anybody, why, why should you object quite a homey neighborhood like it used to be? How do you feel, sir? We don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm, bars that have that have popped up in the past three

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years? Has that had any sort of effect on the relations between the straights and the gays. Do they resent it or anything like that? Straight people, Straight people. I don't think so. I don't think it bothers them because especially it's not 1950 for anymore. It's 1973

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and and boys go to bed with boys and girls go to bed with girls and some people go to bed with both so nobody really cares what they do when they close the bedroom door. So I think, how many kids do you have television in the

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gay community? I would, you know, I wouldn't, I would feel, I would feel hemmed in if the community flopped flip flopped completely and became 100% gay. Just like I would feel that way if, if it were all straight. I like, I like this diverse people, the

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the more middle middle middle class and then maybe the more middle aged store owners and merchants probably, I just don't know what to make of it. Or probably a hostile to some of these very far out gay things. For example, attention maybe it's because of the

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kind of people that I go with that really accept different lifestyles. Um, but I do know that there are some people have mentioned to me that they are uncomfortable, but usually they classify the gay people with the, uh, more unconventional type people the way they dress

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and that sort of thing. And they more bars, we just have enough On Castro Street and 18th. I like the faculty is geared towards sexual cruising, which causes a sort of a lack of community feeling is, it's mostly involved with sexuality. I used to live in

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old people. I think it's mostly the kids of high school age that sometimes come down and they harass people that yell cases of friends of mine being beaten up. Yeah, different times. I've seen it out the window harassment. Some of my friends have been chased that.

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Mhm. Thanks for talking to us. Thanks for putting up with our in this area out here. And I don't think any, any one of them will classify them just as a tavern. That's all, That's all we classify ourselves as just a tavern. Everybody's welcome that wants

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to come in the door. That's why it's been, that's where it's going to be. How we identified this as a gay restaurant. I mean we have no sign saying this is a gay restaurant. It isn't a gay restaurant. Do with gay or straight. That's the answer

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to the second part. The recent influx of gay establishments into the Castro, They don't bother anybody. Now we can move. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Okay. Yeah. Like diversity of lifestyle. I wouldn't want the community to become totally gay. One of

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the nightclubs asked for a license to have go go, but it's a great place to live. Learning to live and let live in the valley Police and church leaders believe that there is still a great potential for violence between gays and straights and Eureka Valley. Some

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local church leaders and police blame the church here in this valley for this friction. They they say that the church has consistently refused to cooperate in police and local residents efforts to bring these two groups together. Unfortunately, no one at the Most Holy Redeemer Church would

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talk to us about this. Then again, others blame parents who still harbor old prejudices towards the gays. They say that kids are led to believe that they're protecting their community from perverts. When they harassed the gaze, One church leader seemed to sum up the whole charged

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climate in this neighborhood by saying that the next time a gay is beaten up, the gay community is not going to wait around to find out who did it before they take to the streets. Mm hmm.