Queer Arts Featured, a bright light in the struggling Castro, enters new chapter

There have been calls for the building at 575 Castro St., where the pioneering gay San Francisco Supervisor also lived, to be made the second National Landmark associated with LGBTQ history after New York City’s Stonewall Inn. But Shand was never interested in creating a shrine or commercializing its history. Instead, he has turned it into an LGBTQ gallery, an artisan boutique, a cabaret and a neighborhood experiment. With its raspberry walls, mix of erotic and whimsical art, and touches of ’70s kitsch and Victoriana, the space is radically different...