This is a full feature documentary on the history of gay bars San Diego, om post WWII to prent day. The film trac the velopment of gay bars San Diego, om post-WWII to prent tim, and featur terviews wh LGBT muny members, bar owners, activists, bartenrs and entertaers.
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- SAN DIEGO’S GAY BAR HISTORY: REFLECTNS ON COMMUNY HISTORY AND THE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROCS
- SAN DIEGO'S GAY BAR HISTORY
- KPBS EXPLOR SAN DIEGO'S GAY BAR HISTORY
- SAN DIEGO'S GAY BAR HISTORY
- SAN DIEGO'S GAY BAR HISTORY
SAN DIEGO’S GAY BAR HISTORY: REFLECTNS ON COMMUNY HISTORY AND THE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROCS
Through archival photographs, historic footage, and terviews wh bar owners, bartenrs and proment muny members, this documentary provis a glimpse to the rich history of San Diego's gay history and culture. * san diego gay bar history *
There’s a shirtls, mtached blond on roller skat ont of a 1965 red Plymouth Barracuda; the posn of the Giant Dipper roller aster and street signage the background tablish the photo was taken the vicy of the Apartment, a women’s gay bar that opened Missn Beach 1974.
A third snapshot: a ftive lp of Halloween-stumed nttants—a drag versn of Tippi Hedren (a stuffed crow entangled her stylish platum updo), a garish clown, and a butch female wboy—all vyg for priz award long ago an unintified San Diego gay bar.
From 2017 to mid-2018, I sorted through a multu of photographs, gay perdils, and ephemera the procs of producg San Diego’s Gay Bar History, a documentary that was ially broadst June 2018 on KPBS, San Diego’s public televisn statn, and had s premiere at FilmOut 2018, San Diego’s LGBTQ Film Ftival. San Diego’s LGBTQ history, viewed through the lens of s postwar gay bars and nightclubs (and through the voic of wns who lived through this history) many ways parallels the velopment of the morn LGBTQ muny other large ci throughout North Ameri, and giv the documentary, while regnal s foc, a wir relevance.
SAN DIEGO'S GAY BAR HISTORY
“San Diego’s Gay Bar History,” a documentary by Pl Detwiler, trac the velopment of the gay bar as a muny stutn San Diego. It premier Thursday, June 14 at 9 p.m. on KPBS-TV wh an enre Monday, June 18 on KPBS 2. * san diego gay bar history *
A ma this of the documentary poss that gay bars have been a foundatnal part of the LGBTQ experience, not only as safe plac for socializg and formg terpersonal relatnships, but also as cultural stutns that have played important rol the formatn of muny over generatns.
KPBS EXPLOR SAN DIEGO'S GAY BAR HISTORY
Sce WWII, no ls than 135 gay bars have operated San Diego and provid sanctuary for GLBTQ+ people to disver themselv and form muny. The ... * san diego gay bar history *
From the opprsive secrecy of the postwar era to Stonewall; the birth of the morn gay rights movement through the eewheelg 1970s; and om the horrific AIDS crisis the 1980s, which cimated an entire generatn, gay bars have been more than jt social drkg spots.
San Diego, already a major ary port cy even before the war, beme a new home for thoands of gay men and women who were then able to disver others of their own kd.
SAN DIEGO'S GAY BAR HISTORY
San Diego's Gay Bar History trac the velopment of the gay bar as a muny stutn San Diego, om post-WWII to the prent. Wner of the Audience… * san diego gay bar history *
The olst ntuoly operatg gay bar San Diego, the Brass Rail, first opened 1934 as a bar and rtrant si the Orphm Theater on the rner of 6th Avenue and B Street. I chose this lotn as a backdrop bee the bar self acts as a metaphoric character San Diego’s gay bar history, havg served as both a bean and a safe harbor for several generatns of LGBTQ muny members.
SAN DIEGO'S GAY BAR HISTORY
Although the downtown bars provid a modicum of refuge for gays the 1940s and ‘50s, they were still risky plac to ngregate, pecially for ary personnel, who uld be dishonorably discharged jt by beg seen wh them.