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. 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.

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.

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

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

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

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. 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.

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO 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. 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. One natnal lumnist om New York wrote 1968 that a gay “cure” was on the way.

“The next qutn is, ” Harriet Van Horne wrote, “do the gay people want to be cured? The Chronicle July 1970 wrote an edorial tled “A New Look at Homosexual Marriage, ” which seemed to support gay weddgs. “Dear Abby: Is homosexualy a disease?

GAY ADOPTN OF BLACK CHILDREN RAIS CONCERNS

“I do not regard the homosexual as ‘sick, ’” she wrote. Wh more voic supportg gay rights, the policians arrived. Homosexuals’ Polil Mache” touted the fluence of two gay anizatns, the Society for Individual Rights and the Tavern Guild, while quotg Dianne Feste — then a cy supervisor and a ndidate for mayor — and future Sheriff Richard Hongisto, who were openly urtg the gay vote.

“A gay weddg was picted on the Society for Individual Rights float, the groom throwg flowers to the crowd, ” The Chronicle’s Larry Liebert wrote a next-day article headled “S. ’s Lively Gay Para. Six years later, the Pri para had grown more than tenfold, wh r and rolute para marchers led by Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was battlg the Briggs Iniative, an unsuccsful 1978 statewi measure that would have banned gays and lbians om teachg public schools.

The Chronicle 1981 hired Randy Shilts, s first beat wrer to ver gay issu. “You have some (gay) people who are at risk and don’t seem to know , and some (straight) people who aren’t at risk and are hysteril, ” Krs told The Chronicle’s Liebert.

CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY COUPLE ADOPTN

Toklas Democratic Club and Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, which have fought to make San Francis one of the most forward-thkg ci the world when to gay rights.

San Francis was at the center of the gay marriage legal battle, allowg same-sex upl to marry 2004 — then marryg them aga 2008 when the Supreme Court affirmed our thkg.

(Christa Koci Hernanz/The Chronicle) CHRONICLE Photos by Christa Koci HernanzChrista Koci Hernanz/CHRONICCLARIFICATION: In an article that ran on Page 1 on Monday about San Francis's mpaign to get more gays and lbians to adopt foster children -- as well as an opposg evangelil mpaign led by Foc on the Fay to get more Christian fai to adopt -- the Chronicle quoted Pl Cameron, director of the Fay Rearch Instute. The article should have noted that Cameron, who believ gays make unf parents and self-published dozens of articl he said were based on his rearch, was expelled om the Amerin Psychologil Associatn 1983 when he refed to subject his work to peer review.