Talk:Castro District, San Francisco

message: Someone Vandalized this page from my computer it needs reverting. I tried to do it but there was an edit conflict. I hope this means someone else is already on it 65.125.163.221 07:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs Revert

message: i have just removed two conflicting attributions, one to Joaquin Ysidro Castro and the other to José Castro. my brief googling was not able to ascertain which is correct. i assume the district was named for the street and the street for one of these historical figures. still, attention from someone with better sources would be appreciated. Aaronbrick 02:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: origin of name

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Does anybody know what flag held by the guy on bike is, the blue-black-white one with a heart? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mongol (talk • contribs) 22:54, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does anyone know what flag that is? 

message: The body of the article states that Castro has a 'gay majority', and yet the demographic section states that gay people account for 41% of the population. Which is true? The information contradicts itself as it stands. Leoniceno (talk) 22:01, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: Firefox stopped me from visiting it, saying it had been marked as a philsing/malware site.--Occono (talk) 23:11, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The second external link 

message: Are either of these links (Project Scum and the 49 Mile Scenic Drive) really relevant to this page? SCUM is pretty minor and the drive barely even goes through the neighborhood. Emhawkins (talk) 05:43, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  See Also Contents? 

message: If there is any definition of "white flight," it certainly applies to the exodus of Nordic-ancestry people from the aging Victorian flats of Eureka Valley in the 1960s to 1970s. Therefore I have re-characterized their action from the colorless "moved" to "fled."
173.228.44.72 (talk) 04:58, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  re: History 

message: Most significant maybe, but largest? How about Chelsea, NYC. Not sure, but it won't hurt to check. Norcalal (talk) 09:13, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest Gay neighborhood? 

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:40, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
Should we move this article to simply Castro District? I'm not sure the disambiguation is necessary. ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:23, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: A sentence in the introduction claims that the Castro "is widely considered America's first gay neighborhood, and is currently the largest and best-known." That it is the largest is well documented, and that it is at least one of the best known is undeniable, but that it is the first is almost certainly not true. Both Provincetown and Greenwich Village were well-known for their gay populations long before the Castro emerged as identifiably gay (according to this article) in the 1960s, and even before gays began moving to the Castro after World War II.
This article itself even contradicts that claim, when it says, "Many San Francisco gays also moved there after about 1970 from what had been the formerly most prominent gay neighborhood, Polk Gulch [...]." If Polk Gulch was formerly the most prominent gay neighborhood in San Francisco, then how can the Castro be the first gay neighborhood in America? "... is widely considered ..." is weasel-talk anyway and strongly suggests that the statement is at least partially some editor's personal opinion.
I searched back through several revisions looking for the source of this statement, and in doing so I encountered so many interim revisions (most notably changing "the world's first" to just "America's first") that I gave up trying to find the claim's original appearance.
Since the "first" part of that grandiose claim is highly debatable, and "best-known" is neither incontestably true (on the East Coast at least, Provincetown, Key West and Chelsea are gay meccas at least as well known currently as the Castro) nor documented here with reliable references, I am going to amend that statement to the following:
:The Castro is one of America's first and best-known gay neighborhoods, and it is currently its largest.
--Jim10701 (talk) 16:15, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  America's first gay neighborhood? 

message: I reverted an edit that asserted that Castro ends at 30th Street. There's a small and little-known section between Chenery and Bemis in Glen Park: See https://maps.google.com/maps?q=castro+and+chenery,+san+francisco&hl=en&ll=37.734069,-122.431297&spn=0.008909,0.018475&sll=40.365277,-82.669252&sspn=4.39424,9.459229&hnear=Castro+St+%26+Chenery+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94131&t=m&z=16 for proof. --tgeller (talk) 19:32, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: 'castro street' extends over the hill into noe valley and up into diamond heights, but the 'castro district' does not. this point is not clearly covered in the article. --emerson7 01:17, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small section of Castro at Chenery 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Apparently there has been controversy in this locality over humans going about their daily lives in their natural state, opponents seeking to criminalise it on the basis that it makes insecure observers uncomfortable:
* https://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-is-nudity-illegal-2012-11
* https://www.businessinsider.com.au/nudists-suing-san-francisco-2012-11
This seems salient to include in this article somewhere, but none of the sections extant now seem related. I realise some people would consider possession of a naked body a sexually-related matter and lump it together under the LGBTIQA+ banner, but naturism is unrelated to MOGAI or SOGI. 49.195.122.225 (talk) 04:38, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naturism