This week’s Bay Area Reporter has some fascinating excerpts from Mark Abramson’s new autobiography, Sex, Drugs & Disco: San Francisco Diaries from the Pre-AIDS Era….
1998Gay businessman Mark Leno is sworn in as San Francisco's newest Supervisor. He was appointed by Mayor Willie Brown to replace Susan Leal, who resigned to become Treasurer of SF.
1999Alan Selby, the Mayor of Folsom Street and founder of Mr. S Leather, becomes a U.S. citizen twenty years after moving to San Francisco from London in 1979.
2014The SF Board of Supervisors votes to rename the block of Turk Street where Aunt Charlie's Lounge is located after legendary trans performer Vicki Marlane.
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