San Francisco's LGBT culture has its roots in the city's own origin as a frontier town, what San Francisco State University professor Alamilla Boyd characterizes as 'San Francisco’s history of sexual permissiveness and its function as a wide-open town - a town where anything goes'. 2 Organizations and community institutions.1.3 After 2000 - same-sex marriage and trans awareness.1.2.5 1980s and 1990s - the AIDS crisis and response, and bi activism.1.2.4 1970s - Gay liberation, The Castro comes out.1.2.3 1960s - SF as gay capital, first struggles for recognition.
1.2.2 1950s - the Beats, and first organizations.
