San Francisco LGBTQ Walking Tour with Local Guide

Overview

Cruisin' the Castro Walking tours celebrates 30 years of Pride and as San Francisco's first and ONLY Legacy Business Tour Company! This prestigious award recognizes Cruisin' the Castro as a longstanding, community-servicing business and a valuable cultural asset to the City & County of San Francisco.

Tours are fun, fascinating and offers twice as many tour stops that not only include the colorful sites of the largest LGBTQ community in the world, but explores the spectrum of sexual and gender diversity and the struggle with achieving equal rights in America. No other tour offer this rare and educational opportunity!

Tours are conducted by a local resident, professional tour guide and a civil rights activist.

City: San Francisco

Sat 09 Nov

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Starting at $30.96

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Sat 09 Nov

Starting at $30.96

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What's Included

Local guide

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Tours operate rain or shine
Minimum numbers apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there is not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund

What To Expect

The Castro

Come cruise the Castro on this fun and comprehensive 2-hour tour! Celebrating 30 years of walking with PRIDE, Cruisin' the Castro Walking Tour is San Francisco's premier tour company! Learn about LGBTQ culture, diversity and the lack of civil rights in America. Explore the many historical sights that has shaped a community as well as, a world wide culture. No other tour offers over 20 historical sites that span from the Gold Rush, World War II, civil rights leader, Harvey Milk, the AIDS epidemic, the Rainbow Honor Walk and beyond! Cruisin' the Castro Walking Tours is conducted by a long time local resident, historian and community activist. Recognized as a TripAdvisor "Hall of Fame" member since 2011!

Harvey Milk Plaza

Learn how Harvey Milk arrived and became the 1st openly gay male politician to serve public office in United States and a Civil Rights Activist. Find out how the rainbow flag was created!

Cancellation Policy

All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.

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Reviews (552)

JUDITHbristol

Jun 2010

My partner and I had such a great time on this tour. Kathy the guide showed us all around the Castro and shared a great deal about the history and modern life of the area. The tour was informative and talked about the history of San Francisco in general, of the LGBT community, the Harvey Milk era, and modern day politics and life in the Castro. We can away educated and with a massive smile on our faces - Kathy really demonstrated what life was like in the Castro both in the past and present. Gay, straight or somewhere inbetween I can't reccomend this tour highly enough. It was awesome, and one of our highlights from San Francisco.

djh2601

Jun 2010

what a fantastic few hours I spent cruisin the castro with Kathy, she is both funny, factual and entirely entertaining. I left the tour feeling that I was a local. Cannot reccomend this tour more. Look forward to seeing Kathy again to do the Harvey Milk next time !!

michpia

Jun 2010

I have a horrible case of ADD and you will probably never find me outside between the hours of 8am and noon during "June Gloom" (no one should be subjected to my class 5 humidity inspired "curls"). It also takes something pretty intriguing and special to drag me out of my bed on my day off ... with that being said, I would like to say that Kathy could inspire me to brave a hailstorm to go on a nature walk at 4am if she were there to narrate it. I am passionate about the GLBT movement and even more so about Harvey Milk. I remember reading about him in high school and have been on a quest to learn more about him ever since, that being said, I was very much looking forward to the tour. and of course it was spritzing outside. I met up with my friend and a lovely family from Washington and their daughter who lived in the city. The dynamic of the group was fantastic. I met Kathy, our fearless tourguide and made an instant connection (may be the fact she is from the East coast as well...). She gave us a very insightful history on not only Harvey Milk, but of the Castro (a neighbourhood I know quite well......considering my life is very "Will and Grace" and if being a "wingwoman" were an Olympic sport...) I digress. After a muni train ride (which is NOT the subway, people!) We then made our way to City Hall. From the moment I walked into the building, I had a lump in my throat. Her in depth narration of the events that occured on that fateful November day were so powerful that I had to fight back tears (I didn't even cry during Bambi)... Just when I thought I was about to start crying and cause a scene, she would lighten up the mood with her amazing sense of humor. As we walked from the Mayor's Office down the hall to the Supervisor's Pffice (the same path Dan White took on his alleged "twinkie induced" rage) I realized that Kathy did the impossible, she managed to hold my attention for 2 and a half hours! Long story short, I would HIGHLY reccomend this tour to ANYBODY. It does not matter if you're gay or straight...you will have a good time and feel as though Harvey Milk was a long lost friend of yours...and I dare you not to be friends with Kathy afterwards (impossible!). I think the most refreshing thing about the tour would be the group of people I shared it with. The fact that this lovely couple (who were a little older than my parents) could talk so openly and freely about things that surely would make my parents blush, made me realize that even in this close-minded, crazy world we live in, that there is hope. Harvey Milk who once said "if a bullet shall enter my brain, let it shatter ever closet door." Kathy's tour is doing just that.