Rints of San Francis’s historilly gay Castro district are worried that the gay scene is changg, and tradnal LGBT stutns are rapidly disappearg
Contents:
- THE LAST GAY BAR THE TENRLO MIGHT CLOSE FOR GOOD THIS SUMMER
- GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
- SAN FRANCIS'S TECH BROS TOLD: QU CHANGG THE GAYBORHOOD
- BEFORE THE CASTRO, POLK GULCH WAS SAN FRANCIS'S GAYBORHOOD
THE LAST GAY BAR THE TENRLO MIGHT CLOSE FOR GOOD THIS SUMMER
Don't miss the first showg ever of the film Gay San Francis, tonight (Thursday) at the Tenrlo Mm. * tenderloin gay *
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. Origally found 1987, when was jt one of many LGBTQ stops the cy’s btlg nightlife scene, ’s now the last gay bar the neighborhood, known for old-school drag shows and dis parti wh cked-out participants well to their 70s.
SF’s Olst Gay Bar, The Gangway, Has Closed.
The Mm is showg the legendary documentary Gay San Francis, for the first time s entirety.
GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
* tenderloin gay *
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.
SAN FRANCIS'S TECH BROS TOLD: QU CHANGG THE GAYBORHOOD
Bryn Hoffman, archivist wh California Revealed, will be speakg followg the screeng of Gay San Francis. When the 30-year-old bathhoe and sna Eros left ’s old home on Market Street near the Castro December 2021, the cy's only remag gay sex club said they had a new home led up.
In the 1960s and '70s, the Tenrlo was a haven for gay and lbian San Francisns.
Many untri around the world have their own versn of queer slang, om Brish gay slang rived om the rhymg slang Polari to beki – the Philipp’ queer language that borrows om a slew of sourc, cludg pop culture, Japane, Spanish, and the untry’s lol languag. While the gay slang terms and languag serve jt as much attentn, one article wouldn’t be enough to ver everythg.
BEFORE THE CASTRO, POLK GULCH WAS SAN FRANCIS'S GAYBORHOOD
Related: Watch: Short film explor lost gay slang Brs ed to avoid arrt. Lguists believe that’s how gay slang started, too. In the Victorian era, male homosexualy wasn’t jt nsired taboo – was illegal.