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Twin Peaks Tavern

1935 establishments in CaliforniaAC with 0 elementsCastro District, San FranciscoDrinking establishments in the San Francisco Bay AreaIMDb template with invalid id set
LGBT culture in the San Francisco Bay AreaLGBT drinking establishments in CaliforniaSan Francisco Designated Landmarks
San Francisco Eureka Valley 9 Twin Peaks Tavern
San Francisco Eureka Valley 9 Twin Peaks Tavern

Twin Peaks Tavern is an American historic gay bar. It first opened in 1935 and is located at 401 Castro Street in the Castro District in San Francisco, California. It is one of the most famous bar in the Castro and features prominent oversized windows that were unveiled in 1972, something uncommonly seen in older gay bars. It is located across the street from the Castro Station for Muni Metro, and near the F Market heritage streetcar line. The tavern received San Francisco Designated Landmark status in February 6, 2013.

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Twin Peaks Tavern
Market Street, San Francisco

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N 37.763076 ° E -122.434955 °
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Market Street 2390
94114 San Francisco
California, United States
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Pink Triangle Park
Pink Triangle Park

The Pink Triangle Park is a triangle-shaped mini-park located in the Castro District of San Francisco, California. The park is less than 4,000 square feet (370 m2) and faces Market Street with 17th Street to its back. The park sits directly above the Castro Street Station of Muni Metro, across from Harvey Milk Plaza. It is the first permanent, free-standing memorial in America dedicated to the thousands of persecuted homosexuals in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust of World War II. Fifteen triangular granite "pylons", or columns, are dedicated to the thousands of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender victims that were killed during Hitler's Nazi regime. In the center of the park is a loose rock-filled triangle that includes rose crystals. Visitors are encouraged to take a crystal as part of the memorial experience. The triangle theme recalls the Nazis forcing homosexual men to wear pink triangles sewn to their clothes as an identifier and badge of shame. The Pink Triangle Park was dedicated on the United Nations Human Rights Day, December 10, 2001, by the Eureka Valley Promotion Association. According to the non-profit that maintains the space, the Pink Triangle Park serves as "a physical reminder of how the persecution of any individual or single group of people damages all humanity." The Castro serves as an LGBT neighborhood for the San Francisco and Bay Areas communities, as well as a tourist destination for its part in modern LGBT history.