| Caldron | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Sex club |
| Address | 953 Natoma Street, San Francisco, California |
| Opened | 1980 |
| Closed | 1984 |
| Owner | Hal Slate, Stephen Gilman |
The Caldron (often misspelled Cauldron) was a sex club for gay men[1] located at 953 Natoma Street in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood.[2][3] It opened in 1980 and closed in 1984.[1] It was called "the epitome of the uninhibited, abandoned, 'sleazy' sex club."[4]
- ^ a b Gayle S. Rubin, "Elegy for the Valley of the Kings: AIDS and the Leather Community in San Francisco, 1981-1996", in In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS, University of Chicago Press, 1997, ISBN 0226278573, pp. 101-144, at page 116.
- ^ "San Francisco Board of Supervisors Resolution 141-21". San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
- ^ Schmidt, Robert A.; Voss, Barbara L. (2005). "Chapter 3: Sites, settlements, and urban sex: archaeology and the study of gay leathermen in San Francisco, 1955–1995". Archaeologies of Sexuality (PDF). Chapter by Gayle Rubin. Routledge.
- ^ Jennifer Brier, Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2009, ISBN 0807833142, p. 40.