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- 00:12, 2 April 2009 diff hist +9 Market Street and Union Square Sex Work Economies
- 00:10, 2 April 2009 diff hist +83 Market Street and Union Square Sex Work Economies
- 00:01, 2 April 2009 diff hist +74 N Anthony Cabello New page: frame|none|Anthony Cabello. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:59, 1 April 2009 diff hist +67 N Coy New page: frame|none|Coy Ellison. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:59, 1 April 2009 diff hist +73 N Cecilia Chung New page: frame|none|Cecilia Chung. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:58, 1 April 2009 diff hist +74 N Kevin "Kiko" Lobo New page: frame|none|Kevin "Kiko" Lobo. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:57, 1 April 2009 diff hist +76 N Shane "Yoyo" Gibson New page: frame|none|Shane "Yoyo" Gibson. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:57, 1 April 2009 diff hist +73 N Alexis Miranda New page: frame|none|Alexis Miranda. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:56, 1 April 2009 diff hist +72 N Myles O'Reilly New page: frame|none|Myles O'Reilly. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:56, 1 April 2009 diff hist +75 N Wilfried and Ken New page: frame|none|Wilfried Glabach. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:55, 1 April 2009 diff hist +64 N Ron Case New page: frame|none|Ron Case. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:54, 1 April 2009 diff hist +85 N James Beales and David Kapp New page: frame|none|James Beales and David Kapp. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:54, 1 April 2009 diff hist +74 N Corey Longseeker New page: frame|none|Corey Longseeker. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:53, 1 April 2009 diff hist +98 N Dan Diez New page: frame|none|Dan Diez, Corey, and Megan Rohrer. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:51, 1 April 2009 diff hist +72 N Donna Saffiati New page: frame|none|Donna Saffiati. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:51, 1 April 2009 diff hist +70 N Megan Rohrer New page: frame|none|Megan Rohrer. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:48, 1 April 2009 diff hist +70 N Bill Campbell New page: frame|none|Bill Campbell. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:47, 1 April 2009 diff hist +68 N River Sims New page: frame|none|River Sims. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun
- 23:46, 1 April 2009 diff hist +60 Blue-collar Heterosexual Taverns and Restaurants “Turn Gay”
- 23:29, 1 April 2009 diff hist -69 "Mom and Pop" to Gay Mecca
- 23:16, 1 April 2009 diff hist +69 "Mom and Pop" to Gay Mecca
- 22:56, 1 April 2009 diff hist +4,659 N Vestiges of Economy: Polk Street Homelessness New page: The vestiges of the drug/sex work Polk Street economy include street youth who have aged into the general homeless population and now perceive themselves to be targets of “cleanup” eff...
- 22:55, 1 April 2009 diff hist +6,503 N “Bottom feeder” Bars to Upscale “Metrosexual” Bars New page: The imagined queer, working-class utopia did not emerge. Undermining the bar economy in particular were the skyrocketing commercial rents during the dot.com boom, the erosion of the cooper...
- 22:54, 1 April 2009 diff hist +2,517 N Dot.com Boom New page: By the dot.com boom of the late 1990s, the street’s sex work/drug economy had largely collapsed, while a citywide building boom and skyrocketing rents in the central city pushed and pull...
- 22:54, 1 April 2009 diff hist +3,194 N Polk Street Homelessness New page: Drug addiction also led to increasing homelessness. In a 1992 field note, ethnographer Toby Marotta wrote about a “network of men, straight and bisexual as well as gay, who were in the d...
- 22:53, 1 April 2009 diff hist +4,495 N Dynamics of Polk Street Sex Work Change New page: A 1981 government-funded study had characterized male hustling as an opportunity for self-discovery that was part of an upwardly mobile entrance into the gay world. “Many adolescent male...
- 22:52, 1 April 2009 diff hist -1 Sex Work Economy Breaks Down
- 22:51, 1 April 2009 diff hist +4,010 N Sex Work Economy Breaks Down New page: The economic basis for the Polk Street “family” of bartenders, street youth, and bar patrons began to disintegrate towards the end of the of the 1980s, and had all but ended by the mid...
- 22:51, 1 April 2009 diff hist +10,118 N A Polk Street Sex Work Economy New page: By the late 1970s, Polk Street had replaced the Tenderloin as the center of a runaway youth and sex work scene. Many of them escaping abusive homes and discrimination, youth migrated from ...
- 22:50, 1 April 2009 diff hist +4,970 N Gay Bars Go “Turn Hustler” New page: Part of the profit-driven process that “turned” heterosexual bars and restaurants gay in the early 1960s, Polk Street bars increasingly relied on sex work to generate revenue as gay ma...
- 22:49, 1 April 2009 diff hist +2,496 Police sweeps to social service
- 22:48, 1 April 2009 diff hist +4,265 N Polk Street Gay Commercial Health Undermined New page: This experiment in institutionalized gay upward mobility was cut short by the mid-1980s, when a number of factors combined to undermine the economic health of the gay Polk Street business ...
- 22:47, 1 April 2009 diff hist +4,265 N Police sweeps to social service New page: This experiment in institutionalized gay upward mobility was cut short by the mid-1980s, when a number of factors combined to undermine the economic health of the gay Polk Street business ...
- 22:46, 1 April 2009 diff hist +10,835 N Polk Street Merchants Push Back New page: Polk Gulch merchants viewed this influx with alarm. While intergenerational and commercial sex had long been a part of the culture, and merchants hired attractive youth to bartend and wait...
- 22:45, 1 April 2009 diff hist +2,860 N “Trade” Sex Work Moves to Polk Street New page: Polk Street merchants and residents would soon be able to answer. “More and more speedfreaks are abounding on the Street [Polk],” the Gay Crusader reported in 1974. “[C]um to think o...
- 22:44, 1 April 2009 diff hist +4,864 N Redevelopment Displaces Sex Work Economies New page: These economies would be uprooted and displaced by the late 1960s and early 1970s, as the City worked to convert downtown San Francisco into an administrative and financial headquarters by...
- 22:43, 1 April 2009 diff hist +3,950 N Market Street and Union Square Sex Work Economies New page: Redevelopment in the central city would dramatically impact the Polk Street in the 1970s. The Polk Gulch district sat on the western fringe of the Tenderloin. The area housed the city’s ...
- 22:42, 1 April 2009 diff hist +5,220 N Economic Power to Political Power New page: In developing a vibrant gay commercial district, an emerging gay political center was also flexing its political muscle. Through parades, fairs, and fundraising events, they nurtured a coo...
- 22:40, 1 April 2009 diff hist +4,837 N Commercialized Sex and Economic Uplift New page: A community borne out of “urban renewal” displacement and attendant police harassment had an intimate knowledge of the ways in which social stigma translated to economic weakness, disp...
- 22:39, 1 April 2009 diff hist +3,119 N The Tavern Guild and Imperial Court New page: The gay commerce and bar-based activity that began in 1961 with the League for Civil Education crystallized in the Polk Gulch commercial corridor. In 1962, Polk Street gay bars provided fe...
- 22:39, 1 April 2009 diff hist +2,203 N Blue-collar Heterosexual Taverns and Restaurants “Turn Gay” New page: Polk Street, well known as a “cruisy” gay male corridor and bordered by middle-class gay male rooming houses, was poised to serve as this space. Bars, taverns, and bathhouses also popu...
- 22:38, 1 April 2009 diff hist +3,184 N A Citywide Blue-collar Economy Evaporates New page: The emergence of the commercial haven was not an inevitable step forward for gay men, instead the result of citywide economic and cultural shifts. Polk Street was originally created in t...
- 21:30, 1 April 2009 diff hist -1 "Mom and Pop" to Gay Mecca
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- 21:05, 1 April 2009 diff hist +646 Polk Street
- 20:39, 1 April 2009 diff hist +995 Polk Street
- 12:17, 6 March 2009 diff hist +52 N Polk Street New page: Exhibit under construction. To debut April 1st 2009.
