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block in one city, right?

We start there and then we'll

take over the neighborhood.

Maybe.

I'm coming in.

Okay,

you can come in now.

Finally.

This better be good.

Oh!

Happy birthday!

I had to do it! I had to do it!

I had to do it!

Sanctuary, sanctuary!

- Harvey Milk!

Sanctuary!

And Castro became

destination number one.

Hundreds of gay men were coming

every week from all over the world.

It was our area.

Our own neighborhood.

The police hated us.

And we hated them right back.

They would come in and

attack us and beat us just for fun.

But that wouldn't stop us.

I made a list of shops that were

friendly to us and shops that weren't.

Those shops that

worked with us thrived.

Those that didn't,

went out of business.

Closed their doors.

Excuse me,

ladies and gentlemen.

Mr. McConnely, I just came by

to see how business was doing.

Just fine, Harvey.

You don't mind having all

these homosexuals in here?

Kidding, everybody.

He loves our kind. Spend away.

Tell your wife I said hello.

But people started

hanging around our store.

Not customers.

Activists, kids,

young people who were looking

for a home away from home.

There was Danny Nicoletta,

cute art student that I picked up at

Toad Hall, who worked in the shop.

Harvey, come on. Opera is so pass.

You're not understanding

the spectacle of it,

the bigger

than life emotions.

The bigger

than life emotions?

Jim Rivaldo, a great mind.

Harvard graduate, which nobody cared

about in those days in the Castro.

Including himself.

And somewhere along the line,

Jim picked up a protg,

a cute political kid from Wisconsin,

Dick Pabich.

And of course,

there was Dennis Peron,

who ran a very successful

business with the young kids.

And it wasn't only the gays

who noticed what was happening.

Also the straight people.

There were some

very unexpected ones.

Teamster leader Allan Baird

walked right into my shop

and asked me if I could get my

people to help boycott Coors beer.

And the Coors beer boycott

had not been too successful.

But I got my people to get all the

Coors beer out of all the gay bars,

and immediately Coors fell

from number one and they caved.

A week later, the Teamsters

union, for the very first time,

hired openly gay drivers.

We weren't just a bunch

of pansies anymore.

We had had our

first taste of power.

And it was about that time

that someone first called me

the Mayor of Castro Street, or I

may have invented the term myself.

The f***ing cops, man.

Cops are pulling

people out of Toad Hall.

Why?

What did they do?

They're sweeping the streets.

It's happening right now.

Come on.

- Come on.

Through the door there,

the front door there,

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