The sunny side of Castro Street : a diary of sorts
- Title
- The sunny side of Castro Street : a diary of sorts
- Description
- A detailed, first-person account of bars, cruising and bathhouses in 1970s San Francisco by Dan Vojir (1947-). It also includes an extended memoir of growing up gay in a second-generation Czech immigrant family in Berwyn, Illinois, before Vojir moved to San Francisco’s Castro neighbourhood in 1974. “It’s a charmer”, proclaimed one contemporary reviewer. Vojir was a writer for the ‘Castro Times’ newspaper and worked in publishing as well as hosting a radio talk show, ‘Strictly Books’. ‘The Sunny Side of Castro Street’ is illustrated by Ku Fu-Sheng in a distinctive style which combines pencil and pen-and-ink sketches with photographic collage.
- Creator
- Dan Vojir (1947-)
- Location
- San Francisco (Calif)
- Publisher
- Strawberry Hill Press
- Date
- 1982
- Tags
- Castro Street (San Francisco)
- Cruising (LGBTQ+ Culture)
- Diaries
- Fu-Sheng Ku (1935-2017)
- Gay Autobiographies
- Gay Bars
- Gay Men
- Gay Saunas
- LGBTQ+ Autobiographies
- San Francisco (Calif)
- Rights
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