Behold: A Map Of San Francis's Lost Gay Bars: SFist

Contents:

• SAN FRANCIS’S 3 MOST FAB GAY NEIGHBORHOODS
• CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC
• BEHOLD: A MAP OF SAN FRANCIS'S LOST GAY BARS
• UNVERG GAY HISTORY SAN FRANCIS

SAN FRANCIS’S 3 MOST FAB GAY NEIGHBORHOODS

When lookg for some of the bt gay neighborhoods San Francis, some stand out om the rt. For some, is one of the bt gay areas San Francis. Bt gay areas San Francis.

Did you know that San Francis is known to be the “Gay Capal of the World”?

CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC

Now famo for s annual Pri ftival, queer performanc and open gay bars, San Francis is a cy of love and diversy. I dug a ltle to the bottom for plac and events to check out Castro Gay Capal of the WorldThe openns and eedom of the LGBT muny today sure didn’t e easy. Photo cred: Goln Gate Natnal Parks ConservancyDurg WWI, “blue discharg” (a form of admistrative ary discharge) were issued by the US to people who were ught engagg homosexual San Francis beg the last port of ll before war the Pacific, many homosexuals were left behd to form their own muny of “intified gays”.

1977: Harvey MilkPhoto cred: Roger EbertHarvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to public office. At a time of rampant discrimatn, he beme a voice for the LGBT muny wh bold reform agendas that protect gay phed for improvements lol servic and facili Castro, and spoke out on important issu for margalised muni (LGBT people, women, racial mori etc) cred: The Bold ItalicHe also sponsored an anti-discrimatn bill and helped pass a gay rights ordance removg anti-gay discrimatn hog and today, his ntributns are wily regnised wh the muny and paved the way for future ton and gay policians like Gav Newsom and Mark Leno.

BEHOLD: A MAP OF SAN FRANCIS'S LOST GAY BARS

For stance, Bobbi Campbell led tnal projects that helped spread awarens about “Gay Cancer” and s, San Francis remas one of the ontnners AIDS rearch and and Events that scream #PriIf you’re thkg of makg a trip down to the vibrant Castro District, here are some plac and events to check out:Tw Peaks TavernBack the day, gay bars operated only behd closed wdows, hidn om the rt of the neighbourhood.

This was what ma Tw Peaks Tavern so was the first gay bar San Francis to feature full-length open wdows, allowg s LGBT patrons to look out and more importantly, to let others look . It was our first time a gay bar, and we had no ia what to, the bartenr, weled heartily spe the by afternoon and we had a lovely chat wh Cdy, a lady stg the rner. “[World War II] properly marks the begng of the natn’s, and San Francis’s, morn gay history, ” wrote historian John D’E his book “Makg Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Polics, and the Universy.

UNVERG GAY HISTORY SAN FRANCIS

Until 1973, homosexualy was still diagnosed as a mental health disorr when the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn removed om the send edn of s Diagnostic Statistil Manual (also known as DSM 2).

“By uprootg an entire generatn, the war helped channel urban gay life to a particular path of growth—away om stable private works and toward public mercial tablishments, ” wrote lol historian Allan Bébé, his book “Comg Out Unr Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women World War II.

For those still servg the ary, livg as—or beg emed as—a homosexual earned you a discharge, more monly known as a “blue ticket” or “blue discharge. “Ironilly, the creasg harassment of gay men and lbians the armed servic, cludg the e of the notor, unsirable ‘blue’ discharg, helped to build a sense of muny among s victims, ” Bebe wrote “Comg Out Unr Fire. Along wh the eclectic artists and performers me gay and transgenr dividuals, who found solace the non-judgmental streets of the Tenrlo.

This was home to some the cy’s first gay bars and clubs, and one of the natn’s origal gay anizatns, known as the Vanguard. -- The San Francis metropolan area has the hight percentage of the adult populatn who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) of any of the top 50 U. The rults are based on rpons to the qutn, "Do you, personally, intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr?

|SAN FRANCISCO SURVEY FINDS 40% OF SINGLE MEN TO BE HOMOSEXUAL ADVERTISEMENTNov. Ocsnally the digizatn procs troduc transcriptn errors or other problems; we are ntug to work to improve the archived percent of the sgle men San Francis are homosexual, and most of them are well-ted and earng more than $20, 000 a year, acrdg to a profsnal survey by the Rearch and Decisns Corporatn, missned by the cy-fanced San Francis AIDS Foundatn, was signed to produce the first reliable statistics on the cy's San Francis's populatn of 706, 900, the survey said, homosexual men total 69, 690.

The survey, based on 500 half-hour terviews drawn om puter-selected hoeholds, also found that 32 percent of the homosexual men San Francis earned more than $30, 000 a year, and 31 percent earned om $20, 000 to $30, percent graduated om llege, cludg 21 percent who ntued postgraduate tn, the survey Wallace, -chairman of the Lbian-Gay Labor Alliance, qutned the reliabily of the survey, sayg homosexuals ''have a lot of enomic avenu closed off to them bee they're gay. '' However, he also noted that many affluent homosexuals were movg to San Francis.

Other Fdgs of SurveyThe rearchers also reported the fdgs:- Forty-two percent of homosexual men report they are monogamo relatnships. - More than half the homosexual men are profsnal-managerial posns or operate their own bs. '' Only 3 percent said they kept their homosexualy all said they were aware certa sexual activy uld rult AIDS, or acquired immune ficiency syndrome.

Homosexual men are among those most at risk, but about one-third said they ntued to engage high-risk sex even though they were aware of the dangers of ntractg the adly disease. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 16 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: SAN FRANCISCO SURVEY FINDS 40% OF SINGLE MEN TO BE HOMOSEXUAL. The San Francis metropolan area has a higher percentage of adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr than any other cy the untry, a new survey found.