Oakland photographer Chloe Sherman was part of San Francisco’s boundary-pushing cultural scene, which was largely centered in the Mission District before the dot-com boom.
Oakland photographer Chloe Sherman documented San Francisco’s queer cultural renaissance in the 1990s. Here is her photo, “The Glamorous Juanita More and Mr. David, 1999” Oakland photographer Chloe Sherman’s new book of images immerses viewers in the last time San Francisco might be able to say it lived up to its promise of being an epicenter of American counterculture.
Oakland photographer Chloe Sherman documented San Francisco’s queer cultural renaissance in the 1990s. Here is her photo, “Amita and Sunny, 1998” At the onset of the Mission District’s gentrification, these “renegades” created a “ferociously sex-positive subculture” of “radical feminists, queer punks and gender-variant people,” Anna Joy Springer, an author and former vocalist for the punk rock group Blatz, wrote in the book’s introduction.
Sherman grew up in New York, Chicago and Portland. In 1990, in her early 20s, she drove from Oregon to visit San Francisco for the first time with a friend. At the time, it also was easy to meet people. In a pre-digital age, people had to leave their homes to find entertainment and other diversions, and there was always something going on — a party, a show or a gallery opening — most nights of the week, Sherman said. “You had to go out and get somewhere to find something,” she said.
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