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• GAY AND LBIAN TIM PUBLISHER COMMS SUICI
• GAY NIGHTLIFE SAN DIEGO: BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• GAY SAN DIEGO
• GAY SAN DIEGO TRAVEL GUI
• SAN DIEGO GAY AND LBIAN NEWS, AGAST GAY AND LBIAN TIM
• FORMER SAN DIEGO ‘GAY & LBIAN TIM’ STAFFERS AIM TO REVIVE THE LGBT PUBLITN
• THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY& MENTAL HEALTH BEG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, NONBARY, AND/OR QUEER IS AN HERENT AND NATURAL PART OF A PERSON’S INTY FED BY ONE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR EXPRSN. BEG LGBTQ+ IS NOT A MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGE. STIGMA AND PREJUDICE AS WELL AS TRMAS LIKE HARASSMENT, FAY REJECTN, AND WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN, HOWEVER, N PRENT UNIQUE MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG TO THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. YOU ARE NOT ALONE, AND EVERYONE SERV A SAFE SPACE TO BE THEIR TE SELV. IT’S UP TO US HAS ROURC THAT N HELP. SCROLL FOR MORE. 28"> 5.6% OF AMERINS, OVER 11 LN PEOPLE, INTIFY AS LGBTQ+.28 29"> LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG, OFTEN DUE TO POLIL, SOCIAL, AND ENOMIC DISCRIMATN.29 30"> TRANSGENR ADULTS ARE NEARLY FOUR TIM AS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE A MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGE, DUE TO STRSORS SUCH AS DISCRIMATN, TRMATIC EXPERIENC, AND A LACK OF EQUAL HUMAN RIGHTS WHEN PARED TO CISGENR ADULTS.30 31"> STRS FACTORS LIKE FAY REJECTN AND DISCRIMATN N TAKE A TOLL ON YOUTH. LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL YOUTH ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO SAY THEY FEEL PERSISTENT SADNS OR HOPELSNS.31 39% OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE REPORTED HAVG HAD A MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGE THE PAST YEAR. LEARN MORE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH SAN DIEGO LGBTQ+ ROURC THAT HELP PEOPLE THE LGBTQ+ MUNY MAY HAVE MORE HURDL TO RG FOR THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO UNRSTAND AS WELL AS A RANGE OF ROURC SPECIFILLY TAILORED FOR LGBTQ+ CHALLENG. USE OUR ROURCE TOOL THE ACCS AND CRISIS LE AT (888) 724-7240 PROVIS SUPPORT 24/7. EXPERIENCED UNSELORS N ANSWER QUTNS ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E, PROVI REFERRALS, OFFER SUPPORT AND CRISIS TERVENTN. IN THE SE OF A MEDIL EMERGENCY, LL 911 OR GO TO THE NEART EMERGENCY ROOM. FD LGBTQ+ INCLIVE ACTIVI SAN DIEGO

GAY AND LBIAN TIM PUBLISHER COMMS SUICI

San Diego was home to same-sex upl as far back as the 19th century, but wasn’t until around World War II that gays and lbians started to e out of the shadows and fd plac to ll home. But thgs changed dramatilly the 1970s as Hillcrt attracted LGBTQ people who sought cheap hog and were willg to fix up Victorian hom, a classic se of “gaytrifitn. ” The Brass Rail, meanwhile, led the vanguard of gay and lbian bars flockg to the “gayborhood” and nearby neighborhoods — North Park, Banker’s Hill, and Universy Heights.

“Gayborhoods allow gays and lbians to fd one another for iendship and fellowship, sex, datg, and love, spe the ascendance of datg apps, ” said Am Ghaziani, thor of the book “There Go the Gayborhood?, ” a 2017 terview. A Voice of San Diego analysis of 2010 cens data found that lol gay male upl were still highly ncentrated Hillcrt and nearby neighborhoods.

GAY NIGHTLIFE SAN DIEGO: BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

But our regn was home to many dozens of gay bars over the eight s sce World War II, acrdg to the 2018 KPBS documentary “San Diego’s Gay Bar History. In 1957, a straight man named Lou Arko bought the bar, then hoed the later-molished Orphm Theater downtown, and weled a gay clientele at night after bspeople went home.

But 11 men and four men om the lol chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front were on a missn: They wanted to open one of the natn’s first lbian-and-gay muny centers. But the “F Loop” is an important part of lol LGBTQ history bee was an important part of many lol gay men’s liv, pecially the years before onle personal ads and datg apps offered alternativ to bars.

Many gay men didn’t know where else to go bee they were aaid to be seen at gay bars, pecially if they were married or the Navy, said Walt Meyer, a historian of San Diego’s LGBTQ past. The San Diego LGBT Communy Center enhanc and stas the health & well-beg of the lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgenr, nonbary, immigrant, and HIV muni to the betterment of our entire San Diego regn.

GAY SAN DIEGO

The San Diego LGBT Communy Center enhanc and stas the health & well-beg of the lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgenr, nonbary, immigrant, and HIV muni to the betterment of our entire San Diego regn. Yet spe dranian laws that threatened to sweep up anyone hapls enough to be ught a homosexual act, same-sex love flourished San Diego, even the cy’s hight social circl.

Protected by their soc-enomic stat om dishonor and prosecutn, upper class upl such as Lee and Teats or Shepard and Tonner did not suffer om stigma or the punishg laws wh which ls fortunate homosexuals of their day had to ntend. Gay historian Allan Bébé has famoly suggted that Ameri’s war effort also served to brg together many gays and lbians who had hherto been isolated small towns and ci all across Ameri, and a signifint subculture was th on s way to beg formed. For stance, gay bars such as Bradley’s and Blue Jacket the Gaslamp District proliferated durg the war years; locker clubs such as the Seven Seas Locker Club and Jack’s Steam and Locker Club beme not only facili where ary men uld change to civvi before a night on the town but also cisg grounds where those who were gay found sexual opportuni.

GAY SAN DIEGO TRAVEL GUI

Many gays and lbians who had been troduced to port ci such as San Diego durg the war chose to settle them after the war bee they had learned they uld feel eer there than they had back home.

SAN DIEGO GAY AND LBIAN NEWS, AGAST GAY AND LBIAN TIM

By 1952, there were so many venu downtown San Diego terg to gay men that the cy was featured USA Confintial, a sensatnalistic book about Ameri’s “s spots. ” Lee and Mortimer tend their fulmatns to shock and tillate, but surely a llateral effect was to rm even more gay people of San Diego’s thrivg gay life and to draw them to the cy.

The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) was rmed too—and bee homosexuals were prumptive crimals unr state and lol laws, the SDPD went to great lengths to hunt gay men down, even stakg out the streets where gays were known to cise. But the potential victims of the cross-drsg law were trans people (men and women: some straight; some gay) who wore the cloth which they were most fortable.

The SDPD felt jtified crimalizg them bee an era when no distctn was ma between sexual orientatn and genr inty, was assumed that all trans people, ipso facto, mted illegal homosexual sex acts. Ed Hansen, a closeted mister at San Diego’s Chollas View Methodist Church, who had recently pleted an ternship at San Francis’s ultra-liberal Gli Memorial Methodist Church, started San Diego’s first anized gay group, “Dghters and Sons of Society. ” The group offered much-need emotnal support to the muny, but as s ntral name suggts, members sentially kept who they were a secret, which meant that they uld have ltle impact fightg discrimatory laws and homophobic prejudice.

FORMER SAN DIEGO ‘GAY & LBIAN TIM’ STAFFERS AIM TO REVIVE THE LGBT PUBLITN

Early the last year of that tumultuo , Bill Gtier, who intified as Glenda the “drag queen, ” found Gays Uned for Liberty and Freedom his 30th Street apartment. It was a noble, pneerg effort, but Gtier got ltle help wh bee few gay people San Diego were ready to work openly on behalf of the muny. But at the start of that summer, an event at a gay bar New York triggered a transformatn the way gay people everywhere would view themselv and their right to eedom and equaly.

But stead of gog quietly to the paddy wagon as gay people had almost always done when arrted police raids, the patrons, fluenced by the many dramatic protts of that , fought back and sparked four nights of rts. ” A week after the rts, a group of young radils New York found the Gay Liberatn Front, named to evoke the munist Natnal Liberatn Front of Vietnam, an anizatn admired by many young Amerin leftists. “The Gay Liberatn Front hop to promote munitns between homosexuals and heterosexual stunts, ” the Daily Aztec, San Diego State’s newspaper, mostly announced.

Volunteers even hung posters all over mp announcg that “San Diego’s First Gay-In”—a public celebratn of gayns—would be held at the Eulypt Grove Prid Park. (The Gay-In marked the first time San Diego that a group of self-clared gays and lbians dared to show themselv openly the daylight.

THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNY& MENTAL HEALTH BEG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, NONBARY, AND/OR QUEER IS AN HERENT AND NATURAL PART OF A PERSON’S INTY FED BY ONE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR EXPRSN. BEG LGBTQ+ IS NOT A MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGE. STIGMA AND PREJUDICE AS WELL AS TRMAS LIKE HARASSMENT, FAY REJECTN, AND WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN, HOWEVER, N PRENT UNIQUE MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG TO THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. YOU ARE NOT ALONE, AND EVERYONE SERV A SAFE SPACE TO BE THEIR TE SELV. IT’S UP TO US HAS ROURC THAT N HELP. SCROLL FOR MORE. 28"> 5.6% OF AMERINS, OVER 11 LN PEOPLE, INTIFY AS LGBTQ+.28 29"> LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG, OFTEN DUE TO POLIL, SOCIAL, AND ENOMIC DISCRIMATN.29 30"> TRANSGENR ADULTS ARE NEARLY FOUR TIM AS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE A MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGE, DUE TO STRSORS SUCH AS DISCRIMATN, TRMATIC EXPERIENC, AND A LACK OF EQUAL HUMAN RIGHTS WHEN PARED TO CISGENR ADULTS.30 31"> STRS FACTORS LIKE FAY REJECTN AND DISCRIMATN N TAKE A TOLL ON YOUTH. LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL YOUTH ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO SAY THEY FEEL PERSISTENT SADNS OR HOPELSNS.31 39% OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE REPORTED HAVG HAD A MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGE THE PAST YEAR. LEARN MORE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH SAN DIEGO LGBTQ+ ROURC THAT HELP PEOPLE THE LGBTQ+ MUNY MAY HAVE MORE HURDL TO RG FOR THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO UNRSTAND AS WELL AS A RANGE OF ROURC SPECIFILLY TAILORED FOR LGBTQ+ CHALLENG. USE OUR ROURCE TOOL THE ACCS AND CRISIS LE AT (888) 724-7240 PROVIS SUPPORT 24/7. EXPERIENCED UNSELORS N ANSWER QUTNS ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E, PROVI REFERRALS, OFFER SUPPORT AND CRISIS TERVENTN. IN THE SE OF A MEDIL EMERGENCY, LL 911 OR GO TO THE NEART EMERGENCY ROOM. FD LGBTQ+ INCLIVE ACTIVI SAN DIEGO

) In the sprg of 1971, thanks to promotn by the GLF, the San Diego State Experimental College—tablished to perm stunts to explore non-nventnal studi–offered one of the first gay studi urs the untry, “The Homosexual and Society.

Word of GLF reached Chancellor Glenn Dumke, the head of the California State College system, who rmed San Diego State’s print, Mallm Love, that no group lled “Gay” may be associated wh a California State College mp.

Print Love, not unsympathetic to GLF, told the group’s learship that he would ntue to approve their stat as a mp anizatn if they would only excise the word “Gay” om their name. On November 28, 1971, they staged San Diego’s first gay prott: about fifteen GLF members marched ont of the San Diego Police Headquarters rryg signs that mand an end to harassment and mockgly clared “10% of You Are US” (a reference to the Ksey statistic that revealed that one-tenth of Amerins were practicg homosexuals at any given time).