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Castro GUYS & DOLLS

n the corner of 19th and Castro, my guide, Nick Large, points upwards. In the window above us is a display of Barbie and Ken dolls. Only these aren’t your average specimens. One holds a sign saying ‘Keep the Castro Queer’; ‘Dyke Pride’, says another. There are also dolls in fetish gear, ‘Impeach Trump now’ dolls, and dolls with the kind of enormous physical attributes that definitely wouldn’t come

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