Drugs in the Tenderloin

A rare screening of the 1966 KQED documentary Drugs in the Tenderloin should provide some insight into exactly how the city’s seediest neighborhood has evolved over the years. As the true locus of San Francisco’s lauded counterculture movement and drug culture, the Tenderloin was also home in the mid-sixties to a burgeoning gay rights movement. The film captures all the grit of the era from a man-on-the-ground point of view. Dig a little deeper with a Q&A session with director Robert Zagone after the film.