San Francisco is the city ruled by love and celebration of diversity. Here are nine ways San Francisco became the world’s gay mecca.

San Francisco has been nominated for six categories in GayCities "Best Of 2019". Show your love for the City by the Bay by voting early and often. You can vote once per day until Dec. 9, 2019.

There are 15 total categories in this year's GayCities "Best Of 2019". These are the six that San Francisco is nominated for:

"Best City"

"Monument to Our History" - Harvey Milk Statue

On Sept. 24, Folsom Street in San Francisco between Eighth and 13th streets will close down to car traffic and welcome more than 400,000 people to the largest kink and leather event of its kind. If you’ve never attended a Folsom Street Fair, you’ve surely seen photos. But how did we get here?

Fire dancer Liam Ocean tells us about his favorite only-in-San Francisco places.

Most people might assume that the Castro has always been San Francisco’s main gayborhood, but that wasn’t always the case. Before the 1970s, San Francisco’s gay community hung out on in the Polk Gulch district, and to this day Polk Street is home to the oldest operating gay bar in the city.