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Lift the United States, San Francisco, many Chinese would think it beautiful Bay and strange urban landscape, but in the eyes of many Westerners, San Francisco is famous for its open.

Here, there was a man named Castro's streets, it is far from San Francisco's most prosperous Street, but it's maverick in local no one does not know, because Castro Street has a rather provocative Jena mdash mdash mdash;;; the gay capital of the world.

The street was full of Rainbow flag

From San Francisco's downtown Union Square, jump on a tram, shake shaky 20 minutes to the San Francisco suburb of Castro Street.

Just to Castro Street, I felt it like no different than other districts of San Francisco, not to a km of streets flanked Nordic architecture style of shops, restaurants and cafes. But look carefully, you can look out some clues. We arrived on that day happens to be the United States national day, Castro Street styling not many United States flag, but hung up in the red, Orange, yellow, green, blue, violet six colors of the Rainbow flag, this is a sign of homosexuality. At the street entrance, a six-story architectural Spire, end a huge Rainbow flag, United States flag can only in its side when the foil, the houses on both sides of the street and shops, there are generally straight out of the wind, a little dancing in the Rainbow flag.

Follow the Rainbow flag, you can see the streets, many designed for gay and lesbian service features shops, from the book illustrated to clothes, completely subverting the heterosexual world outside, the scale of 1 to let people find it difficult to accept.

The shop has many manners intimate homosexuals in each selected commodities, some people still came from European countries. The streets are home to Castro Theatre, it is said that there are more than 70 years old, fame, inside you can see a movie about homosexuality, such as the "Brokeback Mountain", etc.

In fact, in many large cities in the world, have heard various identified homosexuals methods such as earrings to wear method, on the location of the handkerchief, and so on.

But in the Castro Street, and you don't bother to tell, in this street walk, many are holding hands or wear the same clothes of same-sex couples, they radiate calm, also occasionally laugh out loud, even when Kiss. Some people also wore black leather jacket, covered with nails, it is said that this is gay men recognized uniforms. If you would like to make contact with a homosexual groups, to the bar to drink a cup should be a good choice, Harvey bar is this street fame greatest bars, sit half is a middle-aged man, they labored hard to drink and chat, polite, for our visitors, they also don't exclude talk to you on a few words, as long as you don't hastily put up cameras.

A shop owner told reporters that the free and open is Castro Street, unique attitude towards life, you set foot in here, you enjoy unlimited tolerance.

Only in the Castro, homosexuals can live so frankly, so fair to automotive daubed striking Gay flag can have their own bars, restaurants and shops. Because of this, Castro Street is called the gay capital of the world, not only attracted United States homosexuals, other countries in the world of homosexuals have come.