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(Above: A scene om The Tool Box picted a Life magaze story lled "Homosexualy Ameri. ")We don't give gay bars the rpect they serve. After several proment bars San Francis started shutterg -- victims of Manhunt and Grdr and time -- I started mappg a cy's worth of shuttered gay bars.

Cheers, Dash (1908), 547 Pacific:San Francis may have had gay bars before the The Dash, but none were as notor.

Focch's (1936), 506 Broadway:The drag show at Focch's was more of a tourist draw than an hont-to-goodns gay club, but helped brg gay culture -- and drag culture -- to the mastream spotlight. )The Black Cat (1951), 710 Montgomery:"There's nothg wrong wh beg gay -- the crime is gettg ught! I951, after two years of police harassment, owner Sol Stouman took the police to the California Supreme Court, and argued that a bar uld not be shut down jt bee gay men ngregated there.

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He prevailed, providg stenance to the growg homophile Handle Bar (1960), California and Hy:Until 1960, most gay bars were expected to pay brib to police officers for 'protectn' om raids.

But 1960, the "gay-ola" sndal exposg such brib beme a media sensatn, and began a discsn about the rights of gays to equal protectns unr the Q (1962), Polk St.

:In rponse to police harassment, San Francis bar owners formed the Tavern Guild -- the first gay bs associatn the Uned Stat -- at the Suzy-Q bar on Polk Street.

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Members set up a phone-tree to warn each other of impendg raids, set up relief funds and raised money for homophile groups like the Dghters of Bilis, the Mattache Society and the Not?

:In 1964, Life magaze featured a special report lled "Homosexualy Ameri. One of the first mastream discsns of S&M, the article tablished San Francis the mds of middle Ameri (and lns of gay men) as a place of sexual diversy and tolerance. :The Stud helped cubate San Francis's gay hippie movement -- even Janis Jopl would e when she was town -- and provid an alternative to sweater queens and htlers.

Wdows were smashed, police were fought off for hours and a muny showed s strength, providg a flashpot for gay and trans anizg on the Wt Coast: In 's wake a work of social, polil and LGBT-centric medil groups Hall (1971), 482 Castro:The origal Toad Hall -- a bar of the same name recently opened a nearby space -- is often creded wh lnchg the Castro as a gay district. One of the first bars to chew a jebox favor of a DJ, Toad Hall ma the sleepy Eureka Valley a statn for gay men on the weekends, and soon bs owners and homebuyers saw the potential for a real neighborhood where gays uld live Peaks Tavern (1972), 401 Castro:Prr to Tw Peaks, gay bars were secretive affairs wh eher black-out wdows or no wdows at all. After not beg accepted the mostly whe and affluent gay muny of the Castro, gay Latos the 1970s cid to form their own social and polil group to advote for their and create a muny.

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This group, the Gay Lato Alliance (GALA) was a short-lived group centered Missn, which succsfully anized gay Latos until s mise via the openg of the Esta Noche Lat gay bar and creasg tensns wh the group. ”: Negotiatg Racial, Sexual, and Genr Polics San Francis’s Gay Lato Alliance, 1975-1983. Over the urse of the 1970s, the crowds at the Lbian and Gay Freedom Day paras San Francis swelled to the hundreds of thoands and appeared that the gay and lbian movement was now unified and diverse.

Yet, the movement that was growg the Castro was creasgly a “whe middle-class gay polil project” (Armstrong, 2002, p. This excln was pecially te for gay and lbian people of lor (Armstrong, 2002, p. For many the Latx gay and lbian muni, seemed that they were often faced wh a choice of livg a mostly whe gay muny wh racism or livg a muny that rejected their sexual orientatn.

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And even if they cid to jo the gay muny they often felt as if they had to leave part of themselv behd (Armstrong, 2002, pp.

Particularly the domant culturally-nservative Catholic Lato culture, homosexualy was not seen a posive light.

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Some activists this space went so far as to say that "homosexualy is patible wh Lat cultur" (Contreras, 2019, pp. Enter the Gay Lato Alliance, otherwise known as GALA. Started via a magaze ad, the Gay Lato Alliance was formed November 1975 (Rey, 1981) and served as one of the first gay Lato associatns to ga visibily the US (Cabello, 2019).

In 1971, Rodrigo Rey, a Lato gay male, moved om Texas to San Francis and attempted to jo the whe gay nightlife the Castro (Cabello, 2019, p. There he found that he was discrimated agast, sometim beg asked for two forms of intifitn to get to a gay nightclub, while whe mal weren’t even asked for one.

Rodrigo started longg for a Lat gay muny, but wasn’t until 1975 when he cid to take actn.

A iend took Rodrigo to a Lat gay bar Los Angel, and the bar was “full of nothg but Chinos and Mexins” (Roque Ramírez, 2003, p. Rodrigo me back and published an ad the Bay Area Reporter—a lol gay newspaper—searchg for “Gay Chino[s]” to form a muny group tailored specifilly to their needs.

The goal was origally to “fe strategi to clu a Lato float the upg San Francis gay para”, but as more people me the discsn shifted to the racial and social polics of San Francis and the 15 people cid to form a group to rec for their e. Soon, the first meetg of the then-unnamed anizatn was held at the Society of Individual Rights, where the name “Gay Latos Unidos” was pched, but eventually, the group settled on Gay Lato Alliance or GALA bee of the pronunciatn “Gay-la” (Cabello, 2019, p. At the first meetg, there were a few lbian Latas prent, such as Diane Felix, who like many others had never participated gay anizg before (Rey, 1981, p.

Officially, the group founrs changed the name to the Gay Lato/Lata alliance, but the group lloquially ntued to go by the Gay Lato Alliance (Roque Ramírez, 2003, p.