Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when
queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a police raid on a drag ball changed the
course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant milieu that fueled this era, Nan
Alamilla Boyd examines the culture that developed around the bar scene and homophile activism. She argues that
the communities forged inside bars and taverns functioned politically and ultimately offered practical and ideological
responses to the policing of San Francisco's queer and transgender communities. Using police and court records,
oral histories, tourist literature, and manuscript collections from local and state archives, Boyd explains the
phenomenal growth of San Francisco as a "wide-open town" - a town where anything goes. She also relates
the early history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement that took place in San Francisco before 1965.
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