Castro Street Fair

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Castro Street Fair
2008 Castro Street Fair artwork noting the 35th anniversary of the event founded by gay activist and politician Harvey Milk portraying him in iconic Superman style.
Genre	Local, LGBT, Arts, Entertainment
Frequency	First Sunday of October
Location(s)	The Castro, San Francisco
Years active	50
Inaugurated	1974
Attendance	300,000 (2007)
Website	CastroStreetFair.org

The Castro Street Fair is a San Francisco LGBT street festival and fair usually held on the first Sunday in October in the Castro neighborhood, the main gay neighborhood and social center in the city. The fair features multiples stages with live entertainment, DJs, food vendors, community-group stalls as well as a curated artisan alley with dozens of Northern California artists. Due to community pressure the fair restructured the organization and partnered with local charities to collect gate donations and partner with groups at the beverages booths to raise money for those charities.

The Castro Street Fair was founded by Harvey Milk, and the group he led, the Castro Valley Association, in 1974.^[1] It attracted over 5,000 people.^[1] The event's popularity grew quickly and by 1977, the attendance reached 70,000.^[2] The influx of visitors helped promote the Castro district's growing tourist industry.

Castro Street Fair is one of San Francisco's many street fairs, including the North Beach Festival, Union Street Festival and Haight Street Fair. These fairs run throughout the summer, from spring to fall. The Castro Street fair takes place on the afternoon of the first Sunday in October. The large turn-out makes it one of the largest of the annual street events in San Francisco, behind San Francisco Pride in Civic Center, Folsom Street Fair south of Market Street, Pink Saturday in the Castro, and the Union Street Festival.

The fair went on hiatus in 2020 (due to the COVID19-pandemic) and returned in 2021.

References

^ ^a ^b Shilts, Randy (1988). The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk. Macmillan. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-0-312-01900-6. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
^ Boyd, Nan Alamilla (2011-09-01). "San Francisco's Castro district: from gay liberation to tourist destination". Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 9 (3): 237–248. doi:10.1080/14766825.2011.620122. ISSN 1476-6825. S2CID 143916613.

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Career	George W. Hewlett High School USS Kittiwake Bache & Company Castro Street Fair Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club Castro Camera 1977 Board of Supervisors election (District 5)
Associates	Cleve Jones Anne Kronenberg George Moscone Daniel Nicoletta Dick Pabich Jim Rivaldo Frank M. Robinson Scott Smith
Assassination	Moscone–Milk assassinations Dan White Jim Jones Twinkie defense White Night riots
Media and legacy	The Mayor of Castro Street (1982) The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) Milk (2008) Harvey Milk Day Harvey Milk Foundation Harvey Milk High School Harvey Milk Plaza SW Harvey Milk Street (Portland, Oregon) USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206)
See also	Castro District, San Francisco LGBT firsts by year Stuart Milk Peoples Temple

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