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Contents:
- THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
Des of pa and perseverance San Francis's gay muny fally led to vditn the Bay Area and across the natn. This is a timele of historil events. * history of gay in san francisco *
The California Supreme Court l that gays have the right to assemble, leadg to a proliferatn of gay bars and eventually the formatn of social and polil groups San Francis’s gay muny. ” Public sentiment begs to shift toward qutng harassment of the gay muny.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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. * history of gay in san francisco *
This photo is of the sprawlg La Galleria ndomiums on the rner of Bh and Taylor streets on Thursday June 20, 2013, the se of the raid at the gay nightclub. Entertaer and drag queen Jose Sarria ns for San Francis supervisor, the first openly gay ndidate to n for public office the Uned Stat. Life Magaze lls San Francis the “Gay Capal of Ameri.
A group march down Polk Street to Cy Hall San Francis's first gay rights march. A “gay-”' tak place the followg day Goln Gate Park. Harvey Milk is sworn to the San Francis Board of Supervisors beg the first openly gay cy official California history.
San Francis hosts the Gay Gam, an ternatnal sports and culture event. In a historic victory for gay rights, the U. Supreme Court l 5-4 that gays and lbians have the nstutnal right to marry their chosen partner.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * history of gay in san francisco *
Most everyone thks of the Castro as the San Francis gayborhood, where you n traverse rabow-lored crosswalks to drk at Moby Dick’s and de at the Ssage Factory before takg a film at the Castro Theatre. Sprockett’s “Unspeakable Vice” tour, which borrows s name om the word for homosexualy Victorian tim, is the rult of years of rearch by Sprockett—who scraped beneath the surface cy archiv to piece together a ltle-known history. “We break the story [of gay history] down to the three simple parts: The Stonewall rts, and then Harvey Milk, and then gay marriage passed, and everythg was happily ever after, ” Sprockett said.
Arguably the first gay bar San Francis, the long-closed waterg hole next to today’s Maison Ni was a bohemian hangout: Tman Capote allegedly quipped, “I’m a drker wh a wrg problem, ” there, and mak a meo Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The Black Cat Café on Montgomery Street | Courty San Francis History Center, San Francis Public LibraryWhen Sarria ma a bid for the Board of Supervisors 1961, he was the first openly gay man to n for public office the untry—more than a before Harvey Milk.
The bars helped shape and harn San Francis's gay inty. * history of gay in san francisco *
“His platform 1961 was ‘Gay is good, ’ which is jt remarkable urage and really ahead of his time, ” Sprockett said. ” Women performers drsed tuxedos—cludg Gladys Bentley of Harlem Renaissance fame who fearlsly broke all the genr norms of her time— an tablishment that tered to the gay muny directly stead of to gay tourism.