Abstract
Abstract To wander among the dense, winding cypress groves of Golden Gate Park during the sexual revolution was to enter a world of virtually limitless sexual possibility. So dense in places as to be almost impassible, the thicket easily shrouded anonymous gay and straight trysts. At the “wasteland”—as locals described the western end of the park at Ocean Beach—the decrepit Beach Chalet building and defunct windmills were given over to sex-hunters, squatters, vandals, and raccoons. For those San Franciscans who had seen the park in better times, its demise was a shocking symbol of a city run amok. Indeed, no public space in the city was as thoroughly transformed by the sexual revolution as was Golden Gate Park in the 1960s and 1970s.
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