San Francisco has maintained its [?] as a center of cultural bohemianism. In [?] years it had drawn [?] from Mark Twain to Jack London, and it became a center for the 1950s [?] generation poets and for the Haight-Ashbury [?] counterculture that peaked with the 1967 “Summer of [?].”

Long a hotbed of environmental, labor and women’s [?] activism, the city gained a reputation for welcoming gays and [?]. Its Castro District was a [?] of the gay rights movement. In the 1980s the city worked to respond to the challenges of chronic [?]ness and the AIDS epidemic.