Sorry, Mark Twain, you were wrong. The city is actually blessed with year-round moderate climate that’s perfect for strolling and taking in the rays. Even better: Summer in San Francisco means Pride, festivals, and thousands of eager fellow travelers overflowing our borders.
There is so much to explore in the city’s 7×7 miles, and we’ve got some fun and funky tours to take you through the City By The Bay as a visitor or as a local.
Uncover San Francisco’s gay, gay history
Learn about the history gay culture in San Francisco from the Gold Rush times to the present. One of the more popular tours, Cruisin’ The Castro, takes you through all the ins and outs of America’s gayborhood. Another option for the strong of heart is Foot Tours. This is a “two-hour romp that winds its way through the city’s most famous district—mostly because it can’t go straight.” Wild SF Walking Tours takes you off the beat track for surprising and amazing discoveries.
Tourist your way through the city
See several of San Francisco’s iconic monuments and landmarks. From Wine Country to Alcatraz to the Golden Gate Bridge, Extranomical Tours will take you on foot, bike, or bus to see anything “San Francisco” that your heart desires. It might be touristy, but all of these sites are popular for good reason.
See what’s behind the funky architecture with Rick Evans
Follow architectural historian Rick Evans into the secret gardens and hidden public spaces of the Financial District. You’ll learn about San Francisco’s most important architect, get a bird’s eye view of the city’s next great building boom, and discuss hidden treasures that most people miss. This designer’s dream tour can be found at Detour.
See Castro through the eyes of a Harvey Milk ally and Detour
Cleve Jones leads guests along the gorgeous side streets and up and down the Castro’s main drag, with its underwear shops and neighborhood bars. Along every twist and turn, Cleve will show how his own story as an activist is interwoven with a movement that changed the world. This unique historically Castro tour can be found at Detour.
Detour would like to offer Queerty and GayCities readers a chance to take the Cleve Jones tour for free.
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Get a local take, or 50
Explore San Francisco offers over 50 personalized and unique tours, from culinary excursions to running tours to neighborhood walkabouts. These personalized expeditions are not just for visitors, but are also great for SF-dwellers who want to discover more about their own beloved place.
Blaze your own path
They’re always the old-fashioned methods of exploring, getting lost, or choosing what you want and just doing it. Use the GayCities San Francisco Guide to discover what users like you have to say about popular shops, restaurants, bars, public and notable places throughout the city.
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beautiful weather today.
Finrod
“The city is actually blessed with year-round moderate climate that’s perfect for strolling and taking in the rays.” — Clearly, you’ve never been to the Outer Sunset. The eastern half of the city is fine; the western half is blessed with six months of non-stop overcast.
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Finrod, the only alternative you have is to stay home on your laptop and, “make $73.00 dollars hourly for just a few hours per day like Caroline’s co-worker’s Step-sister.”
Glücklich
Since when is the Wine Country considered San Francisco? Is that one of our new real estate-speak ‘hoods? Like Mount Upper Lower Outer Inner Diamond-side Terrace View Forest-adjacent?
I wish they’d chosen a better shot for the architecture, too. That Hilton just assaults anyone unfortunate enough to have to pass through Portsmouth Square. It and the toxic Fox Plaza ought to be knocked down as crimes against aesthetics.
Bauhaus
As a runner, I’m in my element in San Francisco. It doesn’t get much better for runners. When not running, anything in the War Memorial Opera House. The San Francisco Ballet is one of the best in the world, a company with an incredibly varied repertoire.
Glücklich
@Bauhaus:
Not much of a runner here. I need to save my knees for, you know, kneeling.
1EqualityUSA
Fort Funston is amazing too, for off-leash dog walking. There’s a whole community out there. Sometimes, around the watering pans, there are dozens of dogs and humans milling about. No fights, pleasant people, happening Ravens, and the Ocean with sweeping views that are priceless. Widow-maker mountain is immense. Widow-maker is a sand ladder that goes up and up. Just when you’re thinking that you can’t take another step, the signs appear showing a stick figure running away from a hang-glider, the impetus to keep moving. It burns the dogs out for the rest of the day. Comas.
Bauhaus
@Glücklich:
Lifelong runner here. I learned a long time ago, I CAN run away from my problems. All kidding aside, I do think about the ol’ knees.
notevenwrong
The assignment was probably for a fluff advertisement, but what a complete sweeping under the carpet of the very serious problems of S.F. it is. You’re no Rebecca Solnit, that’s for sure.
1EqualityUSA
Jay Brannan, covering Joni Mitchell’s, “California.” Enjoy, boys. He has a confident style of singing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8EJOhQR0eo&index=24&list=RDOFPlOQy4p9w
1EqualityUSA
Scroll down the playlist to that adorable he-babe singing “California”
1EqualityUSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8EJOhQR0eo&list=RDOFPlOQy4p9w&index=24
I’ll try again. Gots to go. enjoy