The Castro Street Fair began in 1974 as a small neighborhood gathering organized by merchants and residents of San Francisco’s emerging gay Castro district, quickly growing into one of the city’s signature annual street celebrations. Jack Fritscher documented the Fair’s evolution over the following decades, from his eyewitness account “Castro Street Blues 1978” to his and Mark Hemry’s Palm Drive Video documentary Circus of Sex, capturing both the Fair’s community roots and its transformation into a major cultural event.

“Castro Street Blues 1978:
or, Even Blue Boys Get the Cows”

The First Castro Street Fair – 1974

Videos Documentary on Castro Street Fair:
Circus of Sex

Palm Drive Video: Jack Fritscher and Mark Hemry Production