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Bailey Nakano of San Diego enjoyed listening to the band Spearhead from the shoulders of Daynin Gordon of Oakland at the Power to the Peaceful concert on Sept. 11, 2010.
Nov. 4, 2008 -- A section of Divisadero Street was closed of so that a crowd of several hundred people could celebrate the victory of Barak Hussein Obama, the first black president of the United States of America.
Oct. 31, 2009 -- In front of the Castro Theatre singing "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" along with the music from a boom box.
Oct. 31, 2005 -- Temptation on Castro street.
March 18, 2006 -- The fifth annual San Francisco Fetish Ball was held at the Regency Grand Ballroom. Fetish fashion models (l to r) Baby Jill, Miss Conduct, Satine Phoenix.
March 18, 2006, San Francisco Fetish Ball -- (l to r) fetish fashion model Ivy Red, designer Nigel Walker of Libidex, fetish fashion model Kumimonster.
March 18, 2006 -- The fifth annual San Francisco Fetish Ball was held at the Regency Grand Ballroom. Fashion design houses presenting included Madame S, HW Designs, Libidex, Fierce Couture, Puimond and Lust Designs.
Circa fall, 1994, San Francisco: Deon Hauser ran a Gothic dance club in North Beach called A Winter Gone By, with her partners William O'Brien (rear) and Robert Benning (right).
"Shame on you! You're going to hell! You're not a Christian! You're going to hell!" this woman yelled outside the state courthouse at a Proposition 8 supporter, immediately after the California Supreme Court ruled it constitutional by a 6-1 margin. Prop. 8 is a voter initiative that was passed on Nov. 4, 2008, which reserved the legal term of marriage for opposite-sex couples, though the state Supreme Court's ruling did not make previous same-sex marriages invalid.
Oct. 25, 2009 -- Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: All aboard the Love Bus! On the 40th anniversary of the year that the festival Woodstock made music history, though not exactly on the same dates, a few thousand people gathered in Speedway Meadows to be hippies. They called it West Fest.
Jan. 14, 2009, Oakland CA -- Shot at the protest against the killing of Oscar Grant III by a BART police officer. There wasn't much going on at this point, the cops had backed off a bit. There was a group of born-again Christians trying to preach to the crowd of protesters and in their boredom some of the more spirited demonstrators began making fun of the Christians. So here they were imitating a soul either going up to heaven or down to hell, I'm not sure which.
Michael Gillespie, 1960 - 2004, San Francisco -- In 1996 Gillespie was sweeping the streets of the North Beach district for spare change and living in a friend’s station wagon. Here he rolls a former ice-cream cart donated by the North Beach Chamber of Commerce down Columbus Ave.
Circa spring, 1994, San Francisco -- “Patrice” used to be called Patrick. But that was another life, in another country.
Birds Of A Feather, Homeless Together -- Circa fall, 1993, SAN FRANCISCO -- Homeless man Al Freeman adopted this pigeon after finding it had fallen out of its nest in Golden Gate Park. He was feeding it a mixture of bird seed and peanut butter in this photograph. To keep it warm he carried it around in a fanny pack. At the time, the pigeon was in the middle of its first molt and Freeman was trying to teach it to fly.
Circa spring, 1994, SAN FRANCISCO -- A man approached a transgender prostitute in the Tenderloin district, at the intersection of Hemlock and Larkin Streets.
After a brief conversation, they appeared to be getting along quite well.
It seems, however, that things didn't really work out.
Circa spring, 1994, San Francisco: Tracy Jones, Deacon at City of Refuge, an interdenominational Christian church.
Circa 2000. High school dance somewhere in Contra Costa county, California.