inglorious wanderer

San Francisco has been known for its gayness: its state of being lighthearted and carefree. Said to be ruled by love and celebration of diversity, the city by the bay is also known to be the world's gay mecca where Harvey Milk rose and died to prominence, for being gay.  The rainbow flag was  also designed in the city by bay by Gilbert Baker, another gay. Tens of thousands of rainbows in every shape, form and orientation lined the Market Street  of San Francisco and  I was just as ecstatic as everyone. The effect of this spectacular phenomenon  caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in a drizzly morning, resulting to a multicolored circular arc, has dragged me all the way to San Francisco to see more of the world renowned San Francisco Pride Parade. I have always wanted to see for myself the fabulously famous queer parade and I finally did it, and seen all it's nakedness. The parade is also known as the San Francisco LGBTQIA  ...

Richmond, a city northeast of San Francisco, was already a bustling industrial town before the break of the 2nd World War. The city's harbor which had been dredged, filled and expanded and the vast shipping port terminals had already enticed substantial industries from wineries, canneries and automotive assembly plants to relocate in the area. The onset of World War II further gave rise to the shipbuilding industry in Richmond. Kaiser Shipyards, one of the biggest shipbuilding operations in the West Coast moved their operations to the city's south shoreline and Richmond emerged as a boom town for wartime industries. The wartime industries also gave rise to migration of job seekers into booming industrial towns like Richmond for good paying wartime industries. The enlistment of men of working age opened opportunities for women who would later be referred to as Rosie based upon a song popularized in 1943. The widely held fixed and oversimplified image of wom...