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PRESERVING THE TANGIBLE REMAINS OF SAN FRANCISCO'S
LESBIAN COMMUNITY IN NORTH BEACH,
1933 TO 1960
by
Shayne Elizabeth Watson
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Shayne Elizabeth Watson
Object Description
| Title | Preserving the tangible remains of San Francisco's lesbian community in North Beach, 1933 to 1960 |
| Author | Watson, Shayne Elizabeth |
| Author email | sewatson77@yahoo.com; sewatson@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Historic Preservation |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Historic Preservation |
| School | School of Architecture |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-10-30 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-11-23 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Breisch, Kenneth |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sandmeier, Trudi Dubrow, Gail |
| Abstract | Most lesbians living in San Francisco, or those who visit the city as tourists, likely do not know that an extraordinarily broad and cohesive lesbian community existed in the city’s North Beach neighborhood between the 1930s and 1960s. As of 2009, the buildings in San Francisco that once served the country’s largest lesbian community bear no sign of their former lives. Most still extant, the buildings have shed their lesbian skins and are ghostly vestiges of a forgotten history. The former home of Mona’s – the veritable birthplace of the lesbian community in San Francisco – is now a nightclub catering to heterosexuals. The building that housed Tommy’s Place – targeted by police fifty-four years ago in the first raid of a lesbian bar– is a stripper club called the Garden of Eden. To date, none of the buildings associated with the historic lesbian community in San Francisco is designated as a local, state, or national landmark. This is an enormous disparity in light of the contributions lesbians have made to United States history.; This thesis explores the history of the lesbian community in San Francisco’s North Beach, exposes a gap in the designation, commemoration, and interpretation of sites associated with it, and makes suggestions to remedy these substantial oversights. |
| Keyword | lesbian; San Francisco; North Beach; LGBT; GLBT; historic preservation; lesbian bar; historic resource; gay bar |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | North Beach; San Francisco |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1933/1960 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2752 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Watson, Shayne Elizabeth |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Watson-3218 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume56/etd-Watson-3218.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | PRESERVING THE TANGIBLE REMAINS OF SAN FRANCISCO'S LESBIAN COMMUNITY IN NORTH BEACH, 1933 TO 1960 by Shayne Elizabeth Watson A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION December 2009 Copyright 2009 Shayne Elizabeth Watson |
