A tender, joyous portrait of the thriving queer subculture in ‘90s San Francisco

RENEGADES: SAN FRANCISCO, THE 1990s

In the 1990s, queer youth, outcasts, and artists flocked to San Francisco to experiment with art, self-expression, style and gender and to find community. Rent was affordable, paving the way for queer bars, clubs, tattoo shops, galleries, cafes, bookstores and women-owned businesses to emerge. A new wave of feminism embraced gender fluidity, and butch/femme culture flourished. The Mission district was the center of this queer cultural renaissance, and the feeling of community there was palpable.