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White t-shirt.
Front: "Elephant Walk"
Back: "9"

Later named for gay activist Harvey Milk, this bar offers drinks, food, trivia & comedy shows.
500 Castro St, San Francisco, CA 94114

Black sweatshirt.
"Gilmore's San Francisco. California & Hyde Street"

Unknown origin. If you have any information regarding this t-shirt, please contact Wearing Gay History.

White t-shirt.
"San Francisco Street Monitor. Castro Street Fair. August 17, 1980."

Black t-shirt.
Front: "Take Back the Night"
Back: "Feminist Perspectives on Pornography. November 17-19, 1978. San Francisco"

Blue t-shirt.
"Dump Diane"

In 1982, San Francisco's gay community start a "Dump Diane" campaign after Mayor Diane Feinstein vetoes domestic partnership bill.

White t-shirt.
"My domestic partner went to the Castro, and all I got was this bloody t-shirt. Night of Resistance. October 6, 1989. San Francisco"

Blue t-shirt.
"No Apologies! May 21st 1979. San Francisco"

Red t-shirt.
"Friend. San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps"

White t-shirt (damaged).
"Gay Vote. San Francisco Gay Democratic Club"

White t-shirt.
"San Francisco. June 17th to 26th. Gay Freedom Celebration."

White t-shirt.
Image of a pink triangle.
"Coalition for Human Rights"

The Coalition for Human Rights (San Francisco) was founded in June of 1977 to serve as an open forum for ideas, and to coordinate the efforts of groups that advocated gay rights.

Black t-shirt.
"City Athletic Club. San Francisco"

Blue t-shirt.
"All American Boy. San Francisco."

Description
Light gray t-shirt.

"All American Boy: San Francisco"

Popular clothing store in Castro district of San Francisco, CA.
Tim Oviatt owned All American Boy on for 32 years before closure in 2008. All American Boy t-shirts often connected with "Castro Clone" look.

463 Castro St
San Francisco, CA 94114

Orange t-shirt.
"Cock-A-Doodle-Do. Chicken and Ribs, too! San Francisco. The Only Taste of It's [sic] Kind"


18th St & Collingwood St, San Francisco, CA 94114

Red t-shirt.
"All American Boy"

Popular clothing store in Castro district of San Francisco, CA.
Tim Oviatt owned All American Boy on for 32 years before closure in 2008. All American Boy t-shirts often connected with "Castro Clone" look.

463 Castro St
San Francisco, CA 94114

White t-shirt.
Image of an apple.
"Ammiano for Board of Ed."

Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941) is an American politician and LGBT rights activist from San Francisco, California. Ammiano, a member of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus, served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2008 to November 30, 2014.

Tan t-shirt.
"Stop Briggs. No On 6. Bay Area Committee Against the Briggs Initiative. 2049 Market Street, San Francisco 94114. 415/626-9482" with a drawing of a triangle.
Printed in brown on tan. (short-sleeved)

White t-shirt.
Front: "Re-Elect Supervisor Tom Ammiano"

Back: "Tom Ammiano. An Independent Voice"
Image of a man with a "rubber stamp" crossed out.

Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941) is an American politician and LGBT rights activist from San Francisco, California. Ammiano, a member of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus, served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2008 to November 30, 2014.

Black t-shirt.
"Street Patrol San Francisco"

White t-shirt.
"Coits, San Francisco"

Early San Francisco gay organizaion.

GAPA.
Front: "Gay Asian Pacific Alliance"
Back: "Lavender Godzilla"

Based in the San Francisco bay area, the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) Foundation is dedicated to exploring critical issues that affect the Asian/Pacific Islander LGBTQ community and supporting innovative programs and individuals seeking solutions to those issues.

White t-shirt.
"Great Outdoor Adventures. San Francisco"

White t-shirt.
"Alice B. Toklas. Lesbian/Gay Democratic Club"

2370 Market St #407
San Francisco, CA 94114

Black t-shirt.
"Perpetual Indulgence"

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), also called Order of Perpetual Indulgence (OPI) is a charity, protest, and street performance organization that uses drag and religious imagery to call attention to sexual intolerance and satirize issues of gender and morality. At their inception in 1979, a small group of gay men in San Francisco began wearing the attire of nuns in visible situations using high camp to draw attention to social conflicts and problems in the Castro District.

White t-shirt.
"The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence"

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), also called Order of Perpetual Indulgence (OPI) is a charity, protest, and street performance organization that uses drag and religious imagery to call attention to sexual intolerance and satirize issues of gender and morality. At their inception in 1979, a small group of gay men in San Francisco began wearing the attire of nuns in visible situations using high camp to draw attention to social conflicts and problems in the Castro District.

White t-shirt.
"G.M.N. Gay Male Nudists of San Francisco"

White t-shirt.
"DAGGER: Dykes and Gay Guys Emergency Response. New World Disorder"

Activist group formed in fall of 1990 to oppose U.S. militarism.
3543 18th St, San Francisco CA

White t-shirt.
Front: "NCLR. National Center for Lesbian Rights"
Back: "We've Got You Covered! www.NCLRights.org"

The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has been advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education since it was founded in 1977.

870 Market Street
Suite 370
San Francisco, CA 94102

Black t-shirt.
Front: "The Lesbian Avengers. San Francisco. It's Time For A Fierce Lesbian Movement. We Recruit."
Back: "We are not waiting for the rapture, we are the apocalypse. We will be your dream and their nightmare.""

White t-shirt.
"De Ambiente Gente Latina. Primer Aniversario. 1991. GELAAM. San Francisco Bay"

GELAAM is a community-based Latino/a organization dedicated to the well-being, education,development and empowerment of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning(LGBTQ) Latinos, their families and friends in San Mateo County.

419 Burlingame Ave, Suite N
Burlingame, CA

Blue t-shirt.
"Gay Fathers San Francisco"

White t-shirt.
"Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club. 'I can be killed with ease but I cannot be silenced: I am too many, I am all of us.'"

San Francisco based democratic club focusing on equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.