The example of long-established working-class communities being priced out of their own neighborhoods by middle- and upper-class newcomers is the classic model of gentrification, and on the surface this was what occurred in the Castro the replacement of a racially diverse, largely heterosexual working-class population by a largely white gay middle and professional class one, and much of the tension arose because of the cultural distance between these two communities. People don’t realize how much San Francisco was Mecca at that time.” 1 Against the backdrop of this cathartic and liberating pilgrimage, concern was growing both within and without over the perceived racism and classism of the new San Francisco transplants. As DJ Steve Fabus recalls, “So many people were coming here from everywhere and it was like a calling or something. Throughout the 1970s, gay people poured into San Francisco. Keywords: gentrification, Michael Maletta, Rod Roderick, David Bandy, Gary Roverana, megaparties, disco, Trocadero Transfer, I-Beam, Castro The next generation of "high-energy" parties began with David Bandy and Gary Roverana’s “Salute to the Men of San Francisco,” at the Galleria Design Center, formalizing and ritualizing dancing to the emerging San Francisco sound. Finally, a history of gay house parties, describes the shift to Rod Roderick’s large, expensive San Francisco house parties and then Michael Maletta’s New York-style megaparties in the Bay, especially “Night Flight” in 1977. Two nightclubs that opened in 1977-the I-Beam and Trocadero Transfer-were at the center of clone culture, and both were hubs of the sound. Black clones tell their story of this time, and other criticisms of clone culture within gay activist circles are explored. This chapter discusses gentrification in the Castro, which particularly affected the relationship between people of color and the largely white clones.