Don't miss the first showg ever of the film Gay San Francis, tonight (Thursday) at the Tenrlo Mm.
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GAY SAN FRANCIS: LOST FILM, 1965-1970
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The Mm is showg the legendary documentary Gay San Francis, for the first time s entirety. Created by filmmaker Jonathan Raymond, the full-length, never-before-screened Gay San Francis giv an unabashedly raw wdow to queer life s ago.
But Gay San Francis tackl s gay and erotic them wh a rpect and humor that was all but unheard of at the time of s shootg.
This footage — along wh scen om San Francis’s thrivg LGBTQ culture, terviews wh gay men and transwomen, and rare piec om a Halloween drag show at the historic On The Levee gay bar — give a shockgly plete pictn of homosexual life San Francis, and more specifilly, the Tenrlo, San Francis’s first queer neighborhood. Gay San Francis was disvered by filmmakers San Stryker and Victor Silverman durg rearch for their Emmy-wng documentary Screamg Queens: The Rt at Compton’s Cafeteria, which clus footage om Gay San Francis. The origal 8mm film was generoly provid to Stryker and Silverman by Ed Muckerman, cematographer of Gay San Francis.
TENRLO GAY BARS
Bryn Hoffman, archivist wh California Revealed, will be speakg followg the screeng of Gay San Francis.
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. On December 1, the Tenrlo Mm will screen a piece of redisvered history: Gay San Francis by Jonathan Raymond, a prevly lost documentary pictg queer life San Francis five s ago.
TENRLO GAY CLUBS
Shot between 1965-1970, Gay San Francis featur a llectn of credible footage of San Francis’s thrivg LGBTQ culture, wh a foc on the Tenrlo, San Francis’s first queer neighborhood. Scen om gay bars are tercut wh fascatg terviews featurg gay men, lbians, and trans women discsg issu om harassment to sex to job secury.
The film also clus a not-to-be missed Halloween drag show at On The Levee, one of SF’s many historic gay bars that closed ’s doors long ago. Filmmakers San Stryker and Victor Silverman unearthed this film while rearchg their Emmy-wng documentary Screamg Queens: The Rt at Compton's Cafeteria, which clud footage om Gay San Francis. Rare photos of backstage drsg rooms, streetsp, legendary clubs, and daily hangouts together form a kaleispic view, showsg the diversy and energy that the neighborhood is still known for Tenrlo is where San Francis keeps s secrets – home to unrground gay bars, illic nightclubs, and the re of the vice dtry.