Castro Street got a major makeover in 2014, when the city doubled the width of the sidewalks, painted rainbow crosswalks at 18th St, and laid into the concrete 20, three-foot-square plaques honoring GLBT heroes – diverse as Oscar Wilde and Sylvester, Gertrude Stein and Keith Haring – whose portraits are acid-etched in bronze, captioned with illuminating text. They look particularly fab at night, when new LED lights, mounted on streetlamps above, cast changing colors onto the sidewalk.
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