Arguments within the Salsa Soul Sisters resulted in the disbanding of Salsa Soul sister into two groups, Las Buenas Amigas (Good Friends) made for Latinas, and African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change made for African-diaspora lesbians. [1]
"While most of San Francisco’s reputable citizens publicly bemoaned the inequities of the Barbary Coast and performed lip-service to the many campaigns designed to eliminate its more objectionable features, secretly they were, for the most part, enormously proud of their city’s reputation as the Paris of America and the wickedest town on the continent."
-Herbert Asbury, Barbary Coast, 1933
After the tragic 1906 earthquake that struck San Francisco, Dash, one of the first transgender welcoming bars in the city (1908,) featured female impersonators entertaining guests, as well as the buying and selling of homosexual sex.
- ^ Rodríguez, Juana María (2003). Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces. New York: NYU Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-8147-7550-9.