At the Intersection of Valencia & Sandino Plaza: A Walking Tour

​A walking tour on the history of lesbian Valencia Street and its intersections with the Nicaraguan Revolution, led by artist and poet Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta. We will meet at the corner of 16th Street & Rondell Place (in front of Mother), and serpentine our way along and around Valencia, Mission, and 24th Streets, eventually ending at Bernal Heights Park. With the exception of a 13% grade at the end, the majority of the tour is flat. Please bring water, snacks, and layers!

​This walking tour is part of an experiment in public learning while researching a novel about lesbians in the Central American solidarity movement, and their lives on and around 1970s Valencia Street; and is generously funded in part by an artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. For more information, email [email protected]

​Event image is of the GALA [Gay Latino Alliance] float in the 1976 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

​Source: Roque Ramírez, H. N., Reyes, R., & Garza, L. A. de la. (2003). “That’s My Place!”: Negotiating Racial, Sexual, and Gender Politics in San Francisco’s Gay Latino Alliance, 1975-1983. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 12(2), 241. Retrieved from JSTOR.