Deliciously Invisible: Being a Straight Woman in a Gay Neighborhood

San Francisco’s Castro District in the Early 1990s

Photo by Leighann Renee on Unsplash

In 1991, my marriage ended and I lived alone for the first time in my life.

I rented a studio apartment in a lovely building at the corner of 18th Street and Collingwood, in the heart of the Castro in San Francisco. It was a big studio — an…