Photos: With Capacity Limits Lifted, the Castro Comes Alive Again
With fifteen months of COVID-19 restrictions behind us, the Castro’s bars and restaurants were bumping Tuesday night with San Franciscans celebrating the end of social-distancing rules.
San Francisco’s gayborhood roared back to life Tuesday night in a way that would’ve been completely inconceivable just a few months ago. Like the thousands who filled staple bars and go-to eateries in the hood, I, as well, saw it only fit to celebrate the city’s reopening by clinking glasses at watering holes crowded with people comfortably bumping shoulders with strangers and asking for libations without muffling requests through a piece of cloth.
By John Chen–
Softball is back! After a full year of hiatus due to the pandemic, arguably the most popular LGBT sport has been given the thumbs up to resume play. This is indeed good news, and especially for the San Francisco Gay Softball League (SFGSL) and the Alameda Women’s Softball League (AWSL).
LGBT softball over the last 50 years has provided a safe haven for players, support for a fringe community, camaraderie for teammates, and family for those who lost theirs. For thousands of LGBT athletes in the Bay Area, softball has been, and is, a way of life.
A two-hour town hall about a proposal to place 125 security cameras in San Francisco s Castro district yielded no clear consensus April 27 — except, that is, that there will be more discussions going forward.
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Neighborhood merchants are reeling from the effects of lockdowns such as an ongoing spate of window-breaking and other vandalism even while the Castro joins the rest of San Francisco in moving into the less restrictive red tier of COVID-19 reopenings.
That and updates from gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and bisexual Assistant District Attorney Matt Donahue, his office s liaison to the neighborhood, were the focus of the virtual Thursday meeting of the Castro Merchants.
Dave Karraker, a gay man who is a spokesperson for, and board member of, Castro Merchants, told the B.A.R. late last week that the association is launching the Castro Window Recovery Initiative.