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'''California Hall at 625 Polk in the mid-1990s.'''
'''California Hall at 625 Polk in the mid-1990s.'''<br>''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
 
''Photo: Chris Carlsson''


'''Das Deutsches Haus, a.k.a. California Hall, 625 Polk Street.''' In the early 1980's, this prime example of German Renaissance-style architecture was the scene of a notorious sex party celebrating the graduation of new San Francisco Police Department cadets. In one particularly celebrated incident, the cops handcuffed a cadet to a chair and forced him to submit to oral copulation by a female prostitute. The cadet, who was gay, felt humiliated, and the event became one of the landmark scandals of the Feinstein administration.
'''Das Deutsches Haus, a.k.a. California Hall, 625 Polk Street.''' In the early 1980's, this prime example of German Renaissance-style architecture was the scene of a notorious sex party celebrating the graduation of new San Francisco Police Department cadets. In one particularly celebrated incident, the cops handcuffed a cadet to a chair and forced him to submit to oral copulation by a female prostitute. The cadet, who was gay, felt humiliated, and the event became one of the landmark scandals of the Feinstein administration.


This building also hosted a [[Society for Individual Rights (SIR)| New Years Eve party]] thrown by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in 1964, which led to a serious police scandal and helped shift gay-police relations in San Francisco.
This building also hosted a [[New Year's Eve Jan. 1 1965: A Night for Gay Rights| New Years Eve party]] thrown by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in 1964, which led to a serious police scandal and helped shift gay-police relations in San Francisco.




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Latest revision as of 14:41, 16 October 2018

Unfinished History

Tendrnob$california-hall.jpg

California Hall at 625 Polk in the mid-1990s.
Photo: Chris Carlsson

Das Deutsches Haus, a.k.a. California Hall, 625 Polk Street. In the early 1980's, this prime example of German Renaissance-style architecture was the scene of a notorious sex party celebrating the graduation of new San Francisco Police Department cadets. In one particularly celebrated incident, the cops handcuffed a cadet to a chair and forced him to submit to oral copulation by a female prostitute. The cadet, who was gay, felt humiliated, and the event became one of the landmark scandals of the Feinstein administration.

This building also hosted a New Years Eve party thrown by the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in 1964, which led to a serious police scandal and helped shift gay-police relations in San Francisco.


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