San Francis has always had a large gay leather muny. By the late 1970's, they had created ‘Miracle Mile’, a stretch of Folsom street that featured over…
Contents:
- HOW THE GAY STREET FAIR KNOWN AS DORE ALLEY BEME THE WARM-UP FOR FOLSOM
- WHERE HISTORY WAS MA / A TOUR OF 41 POTS OF GAY TERT ALL ACROSS THE CY
- GAY FOLSOM (SACRAMENTO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA)
- RACE BANNON: SAN FRANCIS – A GAY KK DTATN
- GAY HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 23, 1984: THE FIRST FOLSOM STREET FAIR TAK PLACE SAN FRANCIS
- THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS'S OLST GAY BAR, IS CLOSG S DOORS DUE TO THE RONAVIS PANMIC
- SF GAY HISTORY
- THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
HOW THE GAY STREET FAIR KNOWN AS DORE ALLEY BEME THE WARM-UP FOR FOLSOM
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"On Sunday, LGBT folk — though primarily gay men the leather muny — will take over the two blocks of Folsom Street on eher si of Dore Street, as well as the alley self, for an afternoon of drkg, dancg, and open-air sexual viance.
Drawg about 15, 000 people — pared to the 250, 000 or more who attend Folsom — Dore Alley tends to feel like more of a muny affair, and a (mostly) gay-male block party for both fetishists and lol gawkers the two fairs that occur eight weeks apart ed to be two unaffiliated events, though Up Your Alley has always been the smaller and arguably dirtier of the SFist's Joe Kura explaed this brief history a uple years back, the first Up Your Alley Fair wasn't held on Dore Alley at all, and happened on Augt 25, 1985. Leather 1985 Patrick Toner and Jerry Vallaire, who lnched as a fundraiser specifilly for gay anizatns and those addrsg the growg AIDS crisis — the first beneficiari were SF AIDS Fund, the Gay Gam, and Communy Uned Agast Vlence.
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By 1993, Toner would be ad om AIDS, and the precursor anizatn SMMILE (South of Market Merchants and Individuals Liftyle Events) was now charge of both Gayle Rub has done history lectur about the fairs over the years for the LGBT Center and other anizatns, and as she explaed to SFist 2015, even though the fairs were not necsarily the money-makers they are now, the leather muny ntued to fund and support them as a means of keepg the culture alive. "Photo om Up Your Alley 2017 by DragomediaRub is referrg to the often clared ath of the leather muny, which has managed to endure as a gay subculture spe the fact that many of s early proponents are gone.
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Remend HotelsWhere to stay close to all the gay bars. Gay Map of San FrancisWe have divid the map to two areas, the Castro, San Francis’s world famo gay district and SOMA, the are where the Folsom Street Fair tak place each September.
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An earlier precursor to Folsom was the CMC Carnival (California Motorcycle Club Carnival), a gay leather BDSM fair that took place om 1966-1984 and was anised by gay motorcycle clubs, like the Warlocks, San Francis’s first gay biker gang.
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GAY HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 23, 1984: THE FIRST FOLSOM STREET FAIR TAK PLACE SAN FRANCIS
The Castro district as gay mec has been a phenomenon of the past 30 years.
But there has been a gay muny San Francis sce the early 20th century, and probably before that. It started North Beach, moved around to the wateront, then ma the slow migratn up Market Street to the Tenrlo, out Polk Street and fally to the followg map shows 40 pots of tert San Francis gay history.
It was created wh the help of Willie Walker at the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual & Transsexual Historil Society and Jim Van Bkirk and San Stryker, -thors of "Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture the San Francis Bay Area.
THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS'S OLST GAY BAR, IS CLOSG S DOORS DUE TO THE RONAVIS PANMIC
The first gay bar to sprg up after Prohibn.
" Owner Sol Stoumen fought the legaly of closg a bar jt bee served known homosexuals. The law was overturned by the California Supreme Court, but the Department of Alholic Beverage Control and San Francis police retaliated by harassg gay bars until Black Cat closed 1963.
It's not necsarily the one that spired the gay anthem by the Village People, but may as well have been. Opened 1935, was the last of the old gay bars, cludg the College Inn and Pirate's Den, on the island where Market Street meets Turk Street. Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, & Transsexual Historil Society of Northern California: 973 Market St.
SF GAY HISTORY
An archive of gay Bay Area history. The world's first gay muny center, found by the Society for Individual Rights 1966. Many gay support groups started there, cludg the Helpg Hands Center, Vanguard: the first queer youth group: and Conversn Our Goal, the natn's first transsexual peer support group.
1, 1965 to benef the Council on Relign and the Homosexual. CRH lawyers nied police entry whout a warrant and were arrted, startg a mpaign agast gay harassment the cy. Polk Street: In the 1960s and '70s there were 65 gay bars, peep show parlors, baths and hotels on the strip.
Among those still there are the Woon Horse (622 Polk), opened 1977; the Locker Room Book Store (1038), opened 1979; Le Salon (1118), wh s erotic wdow display, opened 1968; Giraffe (1131), opened 1979; Kimo's (1351), opened 1978; N'Touch, (1548), the first gay bar for Asians, opened 1974; and the Cch (1723), wh s woon Indian ont sce 1975. Hormel Gay & Lbian Center: 100 Lark St. Loted the new Ma Library, is the first study center for gay and lbian history a public library.
THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
The natn's first gay-owned bank opened and closed 1983. A gay meet-and-greet place sce 1977, at the tersectn of Noe and Market streets. Opened 1972 as the natn's first ground-floor gay bar wh clear plate-glass wdows vg muters on Market Street to look .
The big neon marquee is an untentnal bean for the gay muny. In December 1981, AIDS poster boy Bobbi Campbell posted the display wdow the first notic scribg the "gay ncer" that was to plague the Castro. After the Whe Night rts, the police me here to rough up gays for burng their squad rs.
Closed 1995, the Elephant Walk is now Harvey's, wh a photo wall back dited to gay superstars like Liberace, Dave Kopay and Marta Navratilova. Harvey Milk's store, now the Sk Zone soap shop, is marked by a plaque the siwalk scribg the life of the cy's first openly gay elected official.