SD Confintial: Insi a Lost Gay Past of ‘Fairy Div,’ Raids and a Fallen Admiral | Voice of San Diego

Contents:

• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• MOVG TO LGBT SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020
• SD CONFINTIAL: INSI A LOST GAY PAST OF ‘FAIRY DIV,’ RAIDS AND A FALLEN ADMIRAL
• THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
• UCLA STUDY SHOWS DECREASE IN SAN DIEGO GAY POPULATN

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

The variants are more clive of all dividuals who are non-heterosexual and non-cisgenr stead of exclively applyg to people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

For example, one set of qutns may seek self-reported data on same-sex sexual experienc, while another set may seek data surroundg personal intifitn as lbian, gay, or bisexual. Other stat wh LGBTQ+ protectns, such as Massachetts and Colorado, also have higher timated populatns of gay, lbian, bisexual, and otherwise non-heterosexual dividuals. Yet spe dranian laws that threatened to sweep up anyone hapls enough to be ught a homosexual act, same-sex love flourished San Diego, even the cy’s hight social circl.

MOVG TO LGBT SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Protected by their soc-enomic stat om dishonor and prosecutn, upper class upl such as Lee and Teats or Shepard and Tonner did not suffer om stigma or the punishg laws wh which ls fortunate homosexuals of their day had to ntend. Gay historian Allan Bébé has famoly suggted that Ameri’s war effort also served to brg together many gays and lbians who had hherto been isolated small towns and ci all across Ameri, and a signifint subculture was th on s way to beg formed. For stance, gay bars such as Bradley’s and Blue Jacket the Gaslamp District proliferated durg the war years; locker clubs such as the Seven Seas Locker Club and Jack’s Steam and Locker Club beme not only facili where ary men uld change to civvi before a night on the town but also cisg grounds where those who were gay found sexual opportuni.

Many gays and lbians who had been troduced to port ci such as San Diego durg the war chose to settle them after the war bee they had learned they uld feel eer there than they had back home. ” Lee and Mortimer tend their fulmatns to shock and tillate, but surely a llateral effect was to rm even more gay people of San Diego’s thrivg gay life and to draw them to the cy. The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) was rmed too—and bee homosexuals were prumptive crimals unr state and lol laws, the SDPD went to great lengths to hunt gay men down, even stakg out the streets where gays were known to cise.

The SDPD felt jtified crimalizg them bee an era when no distctn was ma between sexual orientatn and genr inty, was assumed that all trans people, ipso facto, mted illegal homosexual sex acts. Ed Hansen, a closeted mister at San Diego’s Chollas View Methodist Church, who had recently pleted an ternship at San Francis’s ultra-liberal Gli Memorial Methodist Church, started San Diego’s first anized gay group, “Dghters and Sons of Society. ” The group offered much-need emotnal support to the muny, but as s ntral name suggts, members sentially kept who they were a secret, which meant that they uld have ltle impact fightg discrimatory laws and homophobic prejudice.

GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020

But at the start of that summer, an event at a gay bar New York triggered a transformatn the way gay people everywhere would view themselv and their right to eedom and equaly. But stead of gog quietly to the paddy wagon as gay people had almost always done when arrted police raids, the patrons, fluenced by the many dramatic protts of that , fought back and sparked four nights of rts. ” A week after the rts, a group of young radils New York found the Gay Liberatn Front, named to evoke the munist Natnal Liberatn Front of Vietnam, an anizatn admired by many young Amerin leftists.

) In the sprg of 1971, thanks to promotn by the GLF, the San Diego State Experimental College—tablished to perm stunts to explore non-nventnal studi–offered one of the first gay studi urs the untry, “The Homosexual and Society. Word of GLF reached Chancellor Glenn Dumke, the head of the California State College system, who rmed San Diego State’s print, Mallm Love, that no group lled “Gay” may be associated wh a California State College mp. Print Love, not unsympathetic to GLF, told the group’s learship that he would ntue to approve their stat as a mp anizatn if they would only excise the word “Gay” om their name.

On November 28, 1971, they staged San Diego’s first gay prott: about fifteen GLF members marched ont of the San Diego Police Headquarters rryg signs that mand an end to harassment and mockgly clared “10% of You Are US” (a reference to the Ksey statistic that revealed that one-tenth of Amerins were practicg homosexuals at any given time). GLF activist Js Jsop announced to all the lol news media that would listen (KOGO TV, KFMB, and The San Diego Unn were there), “We are standg together to meet this problem [of police harassment] and will ntue to do so ever creasg numbers until all policemen learn that gay people are no longer easy targets for their sadism. Simply beg openly gay was radil and therefore reason for the FBI to keep an eye on GLF, but the FBI had a further exce too: their vtigatn of Gay Liberatn Front groups, cludg the one San Diego, was tensified bee the FBI feared that gay radils would dispt the 1972 Democratic Natnal Conventn Miami by vadg the nventn hall and mandg civil rights for homosexuals.

SD CONFINTIAL: INSI A LOST GAY PAST OF ‘FAIRY DIV,’ RAIDS AND A FALLEN ADMIRAL

Among the arrted were several who were married and did not intify as gay, cludg Gaylord Parkson, an El Cajon gynelogist and proment Republin strategist who had been Richard Nixon’s mpaign director. The next month, on October 5, rryg signs that read “SDPD Watch While You Pee” and “I Prefer Gay Company to the May Company, ” the Gay Liberatn Front staged a march om the May Company to The San Diego Unn parkg lot, where members held a rally.

Bt uld ntemplate makg a ser n for elected office as an openly gay man 1979 part bee gay anizatns big ci across the untry had been makg signifint roads towards changg stutns and public perceptns. In 1973, thanks to gay protts, bat, and appeals, members of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn voted to take “homosexualy” per se out of the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, the psychiatrists’ bible that fed who was emotnally sick. The Uned Stat Civil Service Commissn had kept gay people out of ernment employment sce 1950 wh the jtifitn that gays were so repellent to society that they uld be blackmailed to divulgg state secrets.

THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS

But 1973, the Civil Service Commissn clared that an dividual may no longer be emed “unsuable for feral employment merely bee that person is a homosexual or has engaged homosexual acts. In 1973, members of GLF opened the Gay Center for Social Servic not only to support gay people crisis and to help them fd employment and hog, but also to be a place where the gay muny uld gather for social events. The granst statement of muny, San Diego’s annual Pri Para, began mostly 1974, when a small group of gays and lbians parad whout a perm—marchg on the siwalks and stoppg for red lights to avoid nontatn wh the SDPD.

Nile Murray-Ramirez rells that when he and activists Js Jsop and Tom Homann had gone to SDPD headquarters to requt a perm the sergeant charge told them, “There will never be a homosexual pri march this cy, and you guys are viants and you’re queers and if you don’t get out of here we will arrt you. In earlier s, when the muny was small and homophobia was rife, San Diego gays and lbians, like their unterparts elsewhere, often formed iendships based on shared terts, genue affectn, and a mon enemy.

When necsary, they would “ont” for one another—passg themselv off as heterosexual upl at office parti, fay dners, or anywhere that their homosexualy would have created problems.

UCLA STUDY SHOWS DECREASE IN SAN DIEGO GAY POPULATN

In the 1970s, as hostily towards homosexuals lsened, beme ls necsary to pretend to be straight—which meant that lbians and gay men were no longer ccial “beards” to one another. Wearg hazmat sus to make their hysteril pot that you uld tch AIDS if the fected so much as breathed on you, they posned themselv the way of heavy gay foot traffic and displayed plards clarg AIDS to be a sign of God’s displeasure wh homosexualy.

” Right-wg Senator Jse Helms (North Carola), who had troduced the amendment, admonished his fellow senators about homosexuals: “We’ve got to ll a spa a spa and a perverted human beg a perverted human beg. Sce gay men were prohibed om givg blood while the plague raged, San Diego lbians formed Blood Sisters and gave their own blood which uld be ed for transfns if need by their gay brothers wh AIDS. In the 1970s, the San Diego gay movement had seemed to be primarily, the words of a leadg activist of the day Js Jsop, “a whe middle class movement, wh whe male privilege.

” But the 1980s wnsed a diversifitn of the San Diego movement: Latos found the Gay and Lbian Lato Organizatn; Ain Amerins found Lbians and Gays of Ain Dcent Uned; Native Amerins found Natns of the Four Directns; Asian Amerins found Gay/Lbian Asian-Pacific Islanrs Social Support; transgenr people found Ntral Corner.