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Title: KQED 'The Castro' videotapes
Dates: 1996
Collection Number: 2000-63
Creator/Collector:
KQED, Inc.
Extent: 6 cartons (6 linear feet)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection contains 40 B-rolls from the KQED documentary "The Castro", the third episode in KQED’s series “Neighborhoods:
The Hidden Cities of San Francisco”.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research. Funding for processing this collection was provided by a grant from the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Managing
Archivist at the GLBT Historical Society. Permission to publish is given on behalf of the Historical Society as the owner
of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be
obtained from the copyright owner.
[Identification of item]. KQED 'The Castro' videotapes. Collection Number: 2000-63. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of KQED, Inc. in October 2000.
Biography/Administrative History
The documentary “The Castro” is the third episode in KQED’s series Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco. Produced
by Peter L. Stein and David Condon, “The Castro” examines the history of the San Francisco neighborhood once known more commonly
as Eureka Valley, from its early days as an Irish-Catholic working class neighborhood into one of the nation’s most prominent
gay neighborhoods. Highlighting subjects such as the Council on Religion and the Homosexual (CRH) police raid in 1965, the
assassinations of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Mascone in 1978, and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s,
“The Castro” integrates interviews with residents of the neighborhood to document the varied experiences of former Irish residents,
gay men, lesbians, and queer youth. Filming for the documentary took place over the summer of 1996, and the film debuted in
1998. For more information about the making of the film, please see: http://www.kqed.org/w/hood/castro/makingcastro.html.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains 40 one inch reels from KQED’s documentary on the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco. Reels contain
interviews with longtime Castro residents and more recent (including LGBTQ) residents, such as members of Eureka Valley Alumni
Association, Dorr Jones, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, Cleve Jones, Phyllis Burke, Allan Berube, Marga Gomez, Brian Freeman,
and Felicia Park-Rogers. Reels are arranged chronologically by bump reel number, which was originally assigned by the collection
creators (KQED, Inc.) prior to donation. Transcripts of many of the interviews are available in collection administrative
files in the GLBTHS archives. For more information about the contents of the reels and transcripts from many of the interviews,
please contact the managing archivist. Not all the reels listed in the administrative file appear in the cartons. GSSO linked
terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_002861; http://semanticscience.org/resource/SIO_000297; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000521
Homophobia
Motion pictures
AIDS (disease)
KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
Castro Street (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History.
Film/Video