The Gay Traveler’s Gui To San Francis - Gayety

Contents:

• IN SF'S GAY RIGHTS HISTORY, A LONG ROAD LED TO VICTORY FOR LGBTQ PRI OVER OLD FEARS
• LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS SAN FRANCIS, CA
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• GAY ADOPTN OF BLACK CHILDREN RAIS CONCERNS
• CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY COUPLE ADOPTN

IN SF'S GAY RIGHTS HISTORY, A LONG ROAD LED TO VICTORY FOR LGBTQ PRI OVER OLD FEARS

After years of harassment om lol police and state officials, the owners and patrons of San Francis’s gay bar scene crowd to a hotel nference room 1960, to hear tail what a puzzlg Vonnegut-que nightmare the law had store for them.

Gay bars, by themselv, were not illegal. But an Alhol Beverage Control partment official was on hand to expla that private tablishments uld be shut down if the patrons offend public moraly, and would be “the people — the majory of the people, ” who would terme if gays were offensive.

Buried at the end of the May 29, 1960, Chronicle story was the impassned speech of Morris Lowenthal, an Attic Fch-like figure who had been fendg the gay bars kangaroo urts for years.

LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS SAN FRANCIS, CA

“There is no law agast homosexualy.

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

And there is no law here that says a homosexual n’t go to a bar, ” Lowenthal said.

San Francis Pri weekend 2015 is a few days away, and wh will e the celebratn of a few well-known gay lears and ton.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

In the pag of The Chronicle, there was very ltle mentn of gay liftyl the first half of the 20th century — homosexualy the newspaper was at bt a cursy and at worst a cheap punch le.

The word “gay” had other meangs. (Search for the word “gay bar” The Chronicle archiv, and the first match is the Gay Bar Ranch — an apparently straight 1940s mpg area Napa. Gay liftyl were creasgly viewed as a threat.

The lbian thors and activists were the first gay uple married San Francis 2004 and Albers/The Chronicle.

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

The Black Cat bar had won a legal fight to stay open wh homosexual clientele, but owners and patrons were still beg harassed.

Dpe some ttimony that gay bars were safer than straight bars, the early 1960s the ABC listed 15 out of 30 known gay bars the cy as troublome, and possible targets for closure. There were many watershed moments and hero durg this difficult time for gay, lbian and transgenr San Francisns.

The 1960 Chronicle article by Ron Fimre, which reported the teractns between ABC officials, attorney Lowenthal and “homophile” activists at the nventn, was an early newspaper story that took a nuanced look at gay rights issu om both sis.

GAY ADOPTN OF BLACK CHILDREN RAIS CONCERNS

An outwardly objective piece, Fimre’s article repeatedly poted out the absurdy of the gay bar patrons’ suatn. By the mid-1960s, officials were timatg that there were 60, 000 to 90, 000 gay and lbian cizens San Francis.

June 26, 1977: A mother march wh her gay sons durg the 1977 Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis. Chronicle articl 1969 and 1970 wh tl such as “How Lbians Live” and “Choosg the Gay Way of Life” were sensatnal and simplistic, but the activists of the time pound home a uple of key pots for heterosexuals to ntemplate: Our liv aren’t that much different than yours, and we’re not gog away.

CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY COUPLE ADOPTN

In 1969, an attorney for the San Francis Board of Edutn told The Chronicle that the school district’s policy was to termate any known homosexuals the public school system.