Halloween in the Castro (2005)

Valencia Rose and Josie’s Cabaret & Juice Joint

Michael Flanagan has a lovely piece in the BAR remembering the Valencia Rose, a gay stand-up comedy and performance venue from 1982 to 1985, which was then resurrected as Josie’s Cabaret and Juice Joint from 1989 to 1999. (Bay Area Reporter)

San Francisco’s Gay Halloween History

Revisit our four-part history of San Francisco’s gay traditions, from the masked balls in the late 1800s, early gay traditions in North Beach and then the Polk, to more traditions – and tragedy – in the Castro. (SF Gay History)

Reigning Queens: Roz Joseph’s Lost Photos

Now showing at the GLBT Historical Society Museum (4127 18th Street near Badlands): a photographic exhibit of drag queens in the 1970s from photos donated by Roz Joseph, who was born in 1926 in the Bronx and moved to San Francisco in 1970. (GLBT History Museum)

Gay Portrait Exhibit

Rick Gerharter and Jane Philomen Cleland, two local photographers who have documented LGBT life in San Francisco for decades, are opening an exhibit of their work on November 1 at the Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. The exhibit will remain on display through January 3. (Bay Area Reporter)

Rink’s Photos on Exhibit in NYC

Famed local photographer Rink, whose photos regularly appear in the San Francisco Bay Times and other local gay papers, just finished being part of an exhibition at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City. (SF Bay Times)

SF Chronicle’s Castro Halloween Retrospective

The San Francisco Chronicle has their own photographic retrospective of the history of the Castro’s Halloween celebrations. (SFGate.com)