It was a time before the rabow flag, before the Whe Night rts and before HIV and AIDS vastated a muny. This ABC7 special report, shown s entirety, giv a glimpse to what gay life was like San Francis 1976.
Contents:
- THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT
- PHOTOS: 1988 GAY PRI THE CASTRO
- LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
- CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT
As early as the Barbary Coast days, the cy has also been known to be famoly gay. This inty would be neher as strong nor as powerful were not for the Castro neighborhood. * gay pride castro san francisco *
Where else the Uned Stat n one celebrate Pri wh a drk one the untry’s foundatnal gay, queer, and lbian ci?
The Castro District was home to the untry’s first openly gay elected official, whereas Polk Gulch is the se of one of the Uned Stat’s first Pri paras. Pl, the olst gay bar the natn is Oakland: the Whe Horse.
PHOTOS: 1988 GAY PRI THE CASTRO
The Castro's Rabow Honor Walk is a permanent remr of the sense of pri San Francis. The siwalks of one of the world's most proment gayborhoods are lerally paved wh a tribute to LGBTQ lears om around the world. * gay pride castro san francisco *
Wr large, there are plenty of queer and gay bars both San Francis and Oakland.
LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
Gay Pri is a fun and wild celebratn we've been celebratg San Francis sce the 1970's. * gay pride castro san francisco *
As early as the Barbary Coast days, the cy has also been known to be famoly gay.
Operated by Harvey Milk om 1972 to 1978, the store beme the center of the neighborhood's growg gay muny.
Nurse and early AIDS activist Bobbi Campbell ed the ont wdow of this pharmacy to post a flyer 1981 warng the muny of "Gay Cancer”—bee neher the lol nor natnal ernment would sound the alarm—showg photos of lns ed by Kaposi sara (the rare ncer was found to be a rult of HIV's toll on the immune system). This famo bar was a regular for gay men of lor who didn't feel wele at other predomately whe clubs.
CONTENT WARNG: IMAG OM THIS WEEKEND’S GAY PRI PARAS
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The baret ran for a om 1988 to 1998 as a platform for ic voic, drag shows, and activist baret the gay muny. The bar was a favore of Harvey Milk, who praised as “a place where the gay muny uld meet and feel safe and secure. Rough, sual, and sparsely rated, the first gay bar the Castro opened pre-Stonewall way back 1963.
Over the next few s, approximately 30 more gay bars and shops opened around the Mule.
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Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office, and fought tirelsly for the rights of mori San Francis and beyond. This powerful memorial honors the thoands of persecuted homosexuals Nazi Germany durg the Holot. It was the first gay bar the neighborhood to allow same-sex dancg—at least up until the police noticed they didn’t have the required dance perm.
Matlovich, a Vietnam veteran and recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star, challenged the ban on gays the ary when he me out on the ver of the 1975 TIME Magaze unr the headle “I am a homosexual”. G., the Dghters of Bilis and the Mattache Society) were jt begng, homosexualy was still registered as a pathology by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn.
The Castro Merchants a letter to the cy released Wednday revealed that the Board of the Castro Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer Cultural District, or CQCD, held a vote optg to replace the inic Gilbert Baker-signed Rabow Pri Flag wh the Progrs Flag. San Francis has bee synonymo wh gay culture. The Castro, which has been the cy's center of LGBTQ activism and culture, the heart of the gay muny arguably one of the Francis has bee synonymo wh gay culture.
As early as the Barbary Coast days, the cy has also been known to be famoly gay. This inty would be neher as strong nor as powerful were not for the Castro neighborhood. * gay pride castro san francisco *
The Castro, which has been the cy's center of LGBTQ activism and culture, the heart of the gay muny arguably one of the iendlit ci the USA, is an unual, yet unmissable experience. At the entry to this gay area fli a huge rabow flag on Harvey Milk Plaza. As you will walk through the neighborhood, you will notice bronze siwalk plaqu: this walk of fame lled the Rabow Honor Walk honors Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer dividuals who have ma a signifint difference to society.
Walkg around the Castro, you'll enunter many lorful characters, and get a real feel for the special ambiance San Francis's gay area offers. Beg San Francis's gay district, The Castro is full of exclively gay shops, such as Do Your Mother Know (4141 18th Street), and lots of queer clothg stor.
Once you’ve regaed your strength, make way to some of the bt gay bars and clubs San Francis, where there's somethg for everyone.