List of LGBTQ people from San Francisco

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The Castro, the center of LGBT culture in San Francisco

The LGBTQ community in San Francisco is one of the largest and most prominent LGBT communities in the United States. In the 1970s, the city's gay male population rose from 30,000 at the beginning of the decade to 100,000 in a city of 660,000 at the end of the decade. [1] In 1993 Stephen O. Murray, in "Components of Gay Community in San Francisco," wrote that most LGBT residents of San Francisco had originated from other cities and had "come out" in other cities. [2]

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A 2015 Gallup poll found that 6.2% of San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward inhabitants identified as LGBT, the highest of any metropolitan area in the United States. [3] In the city of San Francisco itself, a 2006 survey found that 15.4% of its inhabitants identified as LGBT. In U.S. Congressional District 8, which consists of San Franciscans of voting age, 16.6% of adults identify as LGBT. [4]

This list includes people born or raised in the San Francisco metropolitan area, as well as those who originated their careers there.

Activists

Art

Actors

Comedians

Crafters

Dancers

Drag

Fashion

Filmmakers

Illustrators

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Painters

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Singers

Athletes

Figure skating

Wrestlers

Businesspeople

Chefs

Lawyers

Politics

Pornography

Religion

Writers

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