For a brief period in the mid-1960s, when the city’s LGBTQ community was beginning to find its voice, “San Francisco’s Finest Female Impersonators” performed at the Casa Blanca Lounge in Glen Park.
Evelyn Rose of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project shares how the story of the Casa Blanca not only reveals the rich Italian heritage of the 2900 block of Diamond Street but also sheds light on a time when the expression of an individual’s authentic self in San Francisco was an arrestable offense.
The presentation is at the Glen Park Branch Library on Wednesday, June 7 at 6:00 pm.