It's worth remembering that up until 20 years ago, the unusual sexual activities in San Francisco was the main thing that San Francisco was known for. It was, f

It's worth remembering that up until 20 years ago, the unusual sexual activities in San Francisco was the main thing that San Francisco was known for. It was, for a long time, the epicenter of LGBQ activism, and especially AIDS activism. During the years from 1956 (when Allen Ginsberg published The Howl) to the start of the Internet boom in the 1990s, San Francisco made national headlines mostly because of the types of sex that was happening there. San Francisco's national reputation had changed dramatically over the last 20 years, and especially over the last 10 years. (I'm not implying that any of this is good or bad, I'm just stating a bit of history.)