Shelton has led a walking tour of Chinatown and the Barbary Coast, San Francisco’s former red-light district, for the last 12 years. But his tour is not like the rest.
Fully ensconced in his drag-queen alter ego, Shelton greets tourists and passersby as one of San Francisco’s iconic historical characters: Countess Lola Montez, a notorious dancer who landed in San Francisco in 1853.
On a recent Friday morning, Shelton was idling at the Goddess of Democracy statue at Portsmouth Square, where the Gold Rush began. Chinatown became what it is today because the news of gold spread from Europe to Asia, and Chinese immigrants landed in The City. They came in trickles at first following the Gold Rush announcement, but a major crop failure in China in 1852 led to a surge in immigration, according to reporting by PBS.As men arrived in droves in search of fortune, sex trafficking took off in full force.
Ex // Top Stories Barbara Lee's push to codify abortion rights rests on GOP's 'backbone' The effort faces an uphill climb against Republicans' House majority This eastern-style facade was a deliberate choice made by not just the owners of this business but a lot of the merchants in Chinatown following the 1906 earthquake.
During World War II, hordes of young men arrived in San Francisco, some leaving home for the first time as they prepared to fight in the Pacific. One of these boys was Issan Dorsey. Born Tommy Dorsey in 1933, he was kicked out of the United States Navy for being gay in the 1950s, and he and his lover wound up in North Beach.
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