In SF's gay rights history, a long road led to victory for LGBTQ pri over old fears

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

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Chronicle Graphic</span></span></figptn></figure><figure role="group" aria-hidn="te" aria-label="Frame 3 of 3" class="rel m0 fdc top tdl300 td300 ttfe abs o0 vh f x100"><div class="ar3-2 f aic bg-whe i15tu57v"><div><div id="taboola-terstial-gallery-thumbnails-8a93fd5f-a3f5-4bf6-96ce-afb5cdaff634"></div></div></div><div class="bgt rel vv o100 y32px"></div><figptn class="f fdc g2 rel ff-fontG fw-fontG fs-fontG lh12 ps1 fs14 px20 sm:px0 y136px o100"></figptn></figure></div></sectn><div class="re6bgoq d1uy5mhj ff-fontJ fw-fontJ fs-fontJ lh18 ps32 fs18" data-block-type="text" data-dropp="false"><p><b>CLARIFICATION: 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. The article also should have reported that his Fay Rearch Instute was named a hate group 2006 by the Southern Poverty Law Center. </b></p></div><div class="mb32"><img src=" alt="" class="x1px y1px vh abs" aria-hidn="te" width="1" height="1"/><div id="30b0aaf4-cc13-4972-9cf9-ad9a05e5e62d"></div></div><div class="re6bgoq d1uy5mhj ff-fontJ fw-fontJ fs-fontJ lh18 ps32 fs18" data-block-type="text" data-dropp="false"><p>Wrgs by Cameron, who spl wh Foc on the Fay many years ago, are still relied on by many nservative Christians.</p></div><div class="re6bgoq d1uy5mhj ff-fontJ fw-fontJ fs-fontJ lh18 ps32 fs18" data-block-type="text" data-dropp="false"><p>Go VanGundy lived more than 20 foster hom 14 years as a child. 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