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#FIRST GAY PRIDE PARADE IN THE COUNTRY POLK STREET PORTABLE#
Wallace and his partner socialized with other gay men at Aquatic Park “every weekend” while sunbathing, cruising, and listen to Tallulah Bankhead on a portable radio.īelow Aquatic Park, Polk Street ran down to Civic Center. In San Francisco, marchers took to Polk Street in 1970 and in 1972, the event became a parade, with an estimated 2,000 marchers and 15,000 spectators, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
He lived in the centrally located Nob Hill area, bordered by the “cruisy” Huntington and Layfayette Parks and within walking distance of the Opera House and many of the city’s scattered gay bars. “San Francisco was considered a very permissive city,” he explained. Randall Wallace moved to San Francisco in the early 1950s from Seattle.