Since the Castro Biscuit was born out of Roy's fertile imagination over beers and laughs with pals in the waning quarter of this year we've attempted to inform, entertain and pique your interest with posts relative to the Castro and how it effects those who call it home.
'Home' is a funny word for many whose connotation are dependent on the user and can be applied in a multiple of ways. Whether you live or have lived within the confines of the neighborhood, look to the district as the cultural and historical epicenter of the LGBT movement's ancestral home, or it just 'feels' like home when you're here playing, partying or shopping at one of the Castro's 270 businesses.
A myriad of issues have dominated the local political landscape: the nudity debate, homelessness, and protests around the raising of flags, benches, condoms, HIV med prices, the new Archbishop, and bank foreclosures and boycotts of Israeli products. Buildings have come down, new build rising and business have come and gone.
We've been happy to cover it all, but, amidst it there were a few posts we liked that we wanted to offer up one more time. To peek back at the short time we've been here trying to serve as town criers, observers and haphazard reporters.
Enjoy and we look forward to 2013 and being part of the the fabric that keeps this neighborhood alive, growing, changing and adapting to it's times. Click the links to read these posts.
Remembering Jack Fertig, aka Sister Boom Boom, and a life well lived.
An unusual and one of a kind view of the Castro.
Time machine look at the Castro in 1976, the 3rd year of the Castro Street Fair.
