WOOFS ATLANTA | ATLANTA'S GAY SPORTS BAR

Contents:

• ATLANTA'S ONLY GAY SPORTS BAR
• SAN DIEGO’S GAY BAR HISTORY: REFLECTNS ON COMMUNY HISTORY AND THE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROCS

ATLANTA'S ONLY GAY SPORTS BAR

Woofs sponsors several lol gay sports teams and anizatns and also supports a variety of non-prof anizatns and programs. Gay men's leather bar - Hosts popular Backroom Night Pl and Beer-Bts for "San Diego Bulldogs" and Bears SD. gay men.

Taverns This Is It, Our Olst Gay Bar. Opened 1968, across om Cathedral Square, the no-ills jot is the state's olst ntuoly-operated gay bar.

There’s a shirtls, mtached blond on roller skat ont of a 1965 red Plymouth Barracuda; the posn of the Giant Dipper roller aster and street signage the background tablish the photo was taken the vicy of the Apartment, a women’s gay bar that opened Missn Beach 1974. A third snapshot: a ftive lp of Halloween-stumed nttants—a drag versn of Tippi Hedren (a stuffed crow entangled her stylish platum updo), a garish clown, and a butch female wboy—all vyg for priz award long ago an unintified San Diego gay bar. The imag I’m marvelg at offer ndid glimps of San Diego gay bar culture om different epochs morn gay history.

SAN DIEGO’S GAY BAR HISTORY: REFLECTNS ON COMMUNY HISTORY AND THE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROCS

From 2017 to mid-2018, I sorted through a multu of photographs, gay perdils, and ephemera the procs of producg San Diego’s Gay Bar History, a documentary that was ially broadst June 2018 on KPBS, San Diego’s public televisn statn, and had s premiere at FilmOut 2018, San Diego’s LGBTQ Film Ftival. San Diego’s LGBTQ history, viewed through the lens of s postwar gay bars and nightclubs (and through the voic of wns who lived through this history) many ways parallels the velopment of the morn LGBTQ muny other large ci throughout North Ameri, and giv the documentary, while regnal s foc, a wir relevance. A ma this of the documentary poss that gay bars have been a foundatnal part of the LGBTQ experience, not only as safe plac for socializg and formg terpersonal relatnships, but also as cultural stutns that have played important rol the formatn of muny over generatns.

The film am San Diego gay bar history wh three major epochs bound by a mon theme.

From the opprsive secrecy of the postwar era to Stonewall; the birth of the morn gay rights movement through the eewheelg 1970s; and om the horrific AIDS crisis the 1980s, which cimated an entire generatn, gay bars have been more than jt social drkg spots. I found rerds for at least 135 gay bars that have operated San Diego sce the late 1940s. San Diego, already a major ary port cy even before the war, beme a new home for thoands of gay men and women who were then able to disver others of their own kd.