San Francis has been a progrsive pal for several s, havg been lled The World’s Gay Mec for s progrsive welg of all genrs and liftyl. It’s no surprise, then, that…
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THE LAST GAY BAR THE TENRLO MIGHT CLOSE FOR GOOD THIS SUMMER
Don't miss the first showg ever of the film Gay San Francis, tonight (Thursday) at the Tenrlo Mm. * the tenderloin san francisco gay *
Along wh the eclectic artists and performers me gay and transgenr dividuals, who found solace the non-judgmental streets of the Tenrlo. This was home to some the cy’s first gay bars and clubs, and one of the natn’s origal gay anizatns, known as the Vanguard. Origally found 1987, when was jt one of many LGBTQ stops the cy’s btlg nightlife scene, ’s now the last gay bar the neighborhood, known for old-school drag shows and dis parti wh cked-out participants well to their 70s.
SF’s Olst Gay Bar, The Gangway, Has Closed. The Mm is showg the legendary documentary Gay San Francis, for the first time s entirety.
Created by filmmaker Jonathan Raymond, the full-length, never-before-screened Gay San Francis giv an unabashedly raw wdow to queer life s ago. But Gay San Francis tackl s gay and erotic them wh a rpect and humor that was all but unheard of at the time of s shootg. This footage — along wh scen om San Francis’s thrivg LGBTQ culture, terviews wh gay men and transwomen, and rare piec om a Halloween drag show at the historic On The Levee gay bar — give a shockgly plete pictn of homosexual life San Francis, and more specifilly, the Tenrlo, San Francis’s first queer neighborhood.
GAY SAN FRANCIS: LOST FILM, 1965-1970
Gay San Francis was disvered by filmmakers San Stryker and Victor Silverman durg rearch for their Emmy-wng documentary Screamg Queens: The Rt at Compton’s Cafeteria, which clus footage om Gay San Francis. The origal 8mm film was generoly provid to Stryker and Silverman by Ed Muckerman, cematographer of Gay San Francis. Bryn Hoffman, archivist wh California Revealed, will be speakg followg the screeng of Gay San Francis.
San Francis has been a progrsive pal for several s, havg been lled The World’s Gay Mec for s progrsive welg of all genrs and liftyl. VanguardThe streets of the Tenrlo 1966 were the se of some of the bolst and bravt ial steps of the natnal gay rights movement.
The Vanguard were known for their open protts of discrimatory polici the streets of the cy, and were nsired the first gay liberatn group Ameri.