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Explore San Francisco’s lesbian-feminist Mission history through bookstores, bars, activism, nightlife, and women-owned businesses. Briefly About the Tour: Step into the vibrant lesbian-feminist history of San Francisco’s Mission District on a walking tour uncovering the activists, entrepreneurs, artists, performers, sex educators, nonprofit leaders, and community builders who helped shape queer women’s culture in the city. Part of the San Francisco Queer Women’s History Tour Series, this experience explores how bookstores, cafés, bathhouses, bars, theaters, nonprofits, and women-owned businesses became the foundation of a thriving queer feminist cultural ecosystem in the Mission from the 1970s through today. From the Dyke March and feminist legal activism to lesbian nightlife, comedy, performance art, and sex-positive liberation movements, this tour reveals the people and places that transformed Valencia Street and the surrounding Mission into one of the country’s most influential centers of lesbian-feminist life.

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