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Written by jay
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:27 |
 While we were of two minds about the major protest march up Market Street last Friday in SF--we were impressed by the size and the enthusiasm of it but on the fence about all the Nazi-ish, and semi-misinformed anti-Mormon and vitriol--we are fully in support of Anna Conda's planned march this Friday to "Take Back the Polk."
As some of you might know, back in the 60s and early 70s, Polk Gulch in San Francisco was a gay neighborhood--kind of what the Castro is today, except chock full of hustlers and trannies and devoid of fancy underwear stores.
The Tender-Polk, as one adjacent neighborhood is called, still has its share of tranny hookers, and there are still a handful of gay establishments on Polk Street or a block or two away. But if you're in SF and want to join in being aggressive, in-your-face fags on Friday amongst the recently fratty and sorority kids who gather drunkenly to smoke outside the Hemlock and Red Devil Lounge, come join Anna in her protest--which is as much about saying "No to H8" as it is about saying no to straight people gentrifying formerly dirty and sleazy gay havens.
There'll be 2-4-1 cocktails from 10-11PM at The Cinch (1723 Polk), and then the march will leave from there at 11 and travel down to Geary Street, at which point everyone will turn around and drunkenly stumble back to the Cinch for the midnight drag show. The theme this week is "Assassins" in honor of Dan White, the former SF Supervisor who killed Harvey Milk.
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11PM Take Back the Polk March / Assasins (Facebook)
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