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Contents:
- THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
- ‘FEEL SAFE, BE YOURSELF’: PNEERG S.F. GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE TURNS 50
- LGBT SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI BUTS THE ERA OF DIS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
- DO A POIGNANT PHOTO OF GAY MEN'S CHOIR SHOW DEVASTATG IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS?
THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
If San Francis is on your gay travel erary, this gui will tell you everythg you need to know about s famo LGBTQ events and tablishments. * san francisco gay series *
Lnched to fame the early 1970s and fluential electg Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official the cy, the Castro is fully open about s herage.
From gay rights in Harvey Milk’s electn – and vastatg assasatn – through to last year’s regnn of the cy’s gay and leather cultural district, San Fran has always been a vibrant LGBTQ+ haven. 2 Seasons | 18 Episos | TV-MAWATCH NOWHBO MaxMeet Patrick, Agt and Dom: three 30-somethg iends livg San Francis explorg the excg, sometim overwhelmg, optns available to a new generatn of gay men. Gay Softball League turns 50June 22, 2023Updated: June 22, 2023 5:19 p.
‘FEEL SAFE, BE YOURSELF’: PNEERG S.F. GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE TURNS 50
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The teams are part of the San Francis Gay Softball League’s Women’s+ divisn. It’s when the San Francis Gay Softball League, for the past 50 years, has taken over diamonds across the cy, givg generatns of queer athlet a place to make an impact.
“They kd of started the gay sports thg back the day, ” said Sherry Schneir, a board member the SFGSL.
“Now you have gay kickball, gay dodgeball, other sports.
LGBT SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI BUTS THE ERA OF DIS
For 50 years, the San Francis Gay Softball League has taken over diamonds across the cy the sprg, givg generatns of queer athlet a place to play. * san francisco gay series *
Gay softball San Francis was the start of the LGBTQ muny beg able to e out and say, ‘I’m gay, and I n play sports, and I have a safe place to play.
The SFGSL is a foundg member of the North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Associatn. Four years to the league’s existence, at the end of the 1977 season, the New York Ramrod and the San Francis Badland peted the first ever-Gay Softball World Seri, wh San Francis wng the bt-of-five tournament, held San Francis. All month long, Outsports has been revisg key moments gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer sports history as part of LGBTQ history month.
That was not only the year “Saturday Night Fever” ma John Travolta a star and lnched the dis craze, was also when the first Gay Softball World Seri was played, as told by Outsports -founr Jim Buzski on September 23, 2011:. Badlands won and the Gay Softball World Seri was born.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
The Gay Softball World Seri was born 1977, the same year as "Saturday Night Fever." * san francisco gay series *
The followg year, the North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance was formed as more ci joed and softball was tablished as the premier gay sport. For both natnal and ternatnal gay softball, Chuck was not jt a te visnary, but a visnary wh all the drive, motivatn and talent to make a dream to a realy.
Chuck helped take the rather simple ia of two gay softball teams om San Francis and New York Cy playg a tournament and transformed to a larger goal, the goal of havg an ternatnal softball anizatn that would yearly monstrate the bt of the bt gay softball. This goal me to un wh the formatn of the North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA). It also hosts the largt annual gay sportg event the world, the Gay Softball World Seri (GSWS).
It’s hard to overstate the importance of softball and the Gay World Seri to gay sports history. For years, gay softball was about the only game town for gay and lbian jocks.
LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
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In 2011, the Gay Softball World Seri celebrated s 35th anniversary.
If gay sports has s foundg fathers, ’s people like Dima and those who formed the first gay softball leagu and that biastal seri 1977 that turned to a legacy. San Francis Gay Softball League. The birth of gay sponsored softball.
Gay softball gets s start. -based profsnal league to e out as gay. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.
DO A POIGNANT PHOTO OF GAY MEN'S CHOIR SHOW DEVASTATG IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS?
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. * san francisco gay series *
Openg s Goln Gate to a world of diverse culture, viewpots, and sexual 'I'm so glad I did this': Comg out, growg up at San Francis PriWe've been diggg through our archiv and found an amazg seri to give you a glimpse of gay life here late 1976.
It portrays San Francis as the gayt cy the untry. Though the seri foc only gay men, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people were also fightg their own battl for public acceptance. "BAY GAYS" was shockg for s time and is stunng still today for how many of the issu still the vio above for the ABC7 special reports prented as they aired the text om the special reports below:The Queen Cy: San Francis 1977Durg the past six months or so, several of here at Channel 7 have been focg our attentn on the homosexual muny of the Bay Area pecially San Francis, wh the hope of prentg for you a report that would shed some light on the darkns of the gay scene and generally show that people of homosexual persuasn are no different except their sexual preference.
San Francis the Queen Cy of the Wt known to many for the Goln Gate Bridge and the ble rs known to far fewer as a haven for homosexuals. You n look around the cy's many districts and be sure that gays, as many homosexuals prefer to ll themselv, are part of the scene.
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But when work is through one hundreds gather here what many are nvced as the largt and most signifint gay ghetto the Uned Stat if not the entire world. Castro village the name given for roughly 20 square blocks of quat jobs vaguely Victorian stctur cut to livg quarters and more than 15 gay bars.
Otherwise for gays om D Mo or Duluth, a sort of heaven on earth. Walk down the street this crossroad the gay muny and you're likely to meet your neighbor, your doctor, the guy who fixed your televisn set, or perhaps your boss. Look at any crowd San Francis and the odds are that one out of three is gay.
Mart Stoll, a former State Department official and now one of the most rpected lears of the San Francis gay muny, "I thk San Francis is attractive to all people who are particularly those mori and that this has always been known as a place that uld accept people wh different liftyl and certaly the gay liftyle is a different liftyle. Gays are tolerated and will be for a long time.