This created gay neighborhoods where they could live their lifestyles freely and open successful businesses. As the article on FoundSF points out, gay men and women congregated together for safety in numbers. I chose to look a set of businesses like the gay community’s because their locations reveals a similar spacial confinement experienced by other minority groups in San Francisco.
“Other”, indicated by red circles, refers to spaces like cinemas and bookstores. The map on I posted on Twitter from FoundSF used Carto and was able to better visually communicate its data as a result. Blue and green circles on that map refer to the locations of bathhouses and sex clubs and purple circles show gay bars and clubs. Unless you zoom in, there is no clear way of telling where points lie. This version looks like a poor example of a map, like the select few we viewed in class. I was hoping to use Carto’s more advanced features to visualize this map differently.