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.
Contents:
- GAY PRS
- THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
- UNVERG GAY HISTORY SAN FRANCIS
- SAN FRANCIS TELLS GAY BATHHO, "WELE BACK!"
- LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
GAY PRS
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San Francis LGBTQ publitn The Bay Area Reporter grew om an early 1970s “gay bar gossip rag” to one of the most fluential LGBTQ newspapers and onle news outlets the untry. For short – started 1971 as a “bar rag” weekly newspaper verg San Francis’s gay bar culture and grew over the s to one of the most fluential LGBTQ news publitns the untry. Articl, photos and advertisements - cludg racy gay classified ads - that illtrate how thgs have changed over the s a fascatg onle exhibn, Stori of Our Movement: The Bay Area Reporter at 50.
Hormel LGBTQIA+ Center is the gateway to the Library’s broar llectns documentg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, asexual and alli’ history and culture, wh a special emphasis on the San Francis Bay Area.
THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
San Francis LGBTQ publitn The Bay Area Reporter grew om an early 1970s \“gay bar gossip rag\” to one of the most fluential LGBTQ newspapers and onle news outlets the untry. The B.A.R.'s publisher and news edor reflect on turng 50 the tough tim for pennt media and on a half-century of queer history. * san francisco gay paper *
The Bay Area Reporter is the olst ntuoly published lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer weekly newspaper the Uned Stat and is the hight circulatn publitn servg the LGBTQ muni of the San Francis Bay Area. Atlas Prs was the official prter for the Santa Clara County Democratic Party, and both Johnie and Nikki were eply volved the stggle for gay rights through the existg polil procs. Seekg to fe the gay suburban muni of the South Bay, Our Paper/Your Paper was tend to offer a platform distct om the gay prs of San Francis, which domated the entire Bay Area the years prr.
John Folldal, Whayne Herriford, Richard Kendall, and Ted Sahl (who already had worked extensively on other gay prs the area) started a new paper, South Bay Tim, that sought to be not only fancially solvent but beneficial to the lol lbian and gay muny. If San Francis is the natnal epicenter of gay culture, then the Bay Area Reporter newspaper is the ppot wh – the place to disver what matters most to the gay folks livg wh the most fluential gay cy Ameri.
UNVERG GAY HISTORY SAN FRANCIS
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After 40 years of verg what was then known as the gay liberatn movement, om early police harassment, to polil efforts to ban gay teachers, the Cy Hall assassatns, the AIDS epimic and now marriage equaly, the ee weekly paper is takg a pse to celebrate s evolutn as the untry’s longt ntuoly published gay newspaper. While most big ci now have a gay newspaper, no other paper close to the impact of the BAR, which began as a gossip flyer wh bar advertisements and grew to the untry’s loust voice for the gay muny. Although the Inter has killed s classified advertisg, the BAR hasn’t succumbed to the enomy and the iPad like so many mastream papers, part bee s display advertisers have remaed loyal, as predomantly gay bs owners want to reach ctomers who prefer gay doctors, therapists and bookstor.
It was that niche dience that the late rtratr Bob Ross had md April 1971 when he and bs partner Pl Bentley mimeographed some stori and photos and livered them to lol gay bars.
Life magaze had e out wh a ver story 1964, “The Secret World of the Homosexual Grows Bolr and Broar, ” namg San Francis as home to 70, 000 homosexuals, and advertently g a migratn.
SAN FRANCIS TELLS GAY BATHHO, "WELE BACK!"
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 paper *
When San Francis police showed up wh meras at a black-tie gay chary fundraiser at California Hall lookg to photograph “known homosexuals, ” many felt that thgs had gone too far.
When the gay Tw Peaks softball team bted the San Francis Police Department team 1974, the paper gleefully ran a banner ont-page headle: “Police Beaten!
LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
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Reporters om all over turned to the BAR, which had the bt nnectns to wre the most powerful stori om wh the gay muny about the impact of their fallen lear.
An iative by the Natnal Park Service and lol guis give an overview of unrappreciated s that helped shape San Francis’s gay muny, and the natn’s. * san francisco gay paper *
The days, feels as though the staff is filg more reports of victori – the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” promisg velopments toward an AIDS vacce, and creasg numbers of stat allowg gay upl to marry.
Whereas the BAR ed to be the only place to fd major verage of the Gay Pri Para, now ’s reprted, tweeted and blogged everywhere, to almost every major cy the world. Given mastream sentiment regardg homosexualy and the wily held misunrstandgs about the nature of the AIDS vis, natnal rponse to the AIDS crisis was largely slow and effective. The image is a poster which was placed around San Francis, specifilly the Castro district, which promot a Women’s Day Blood Drive gog to occur the Castro and urg lbian women to donate blood to the gay men affected by AIDS.
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At one pot, Altman stat that most AIDS s “volved homosexual men who have had multiple and equent sexual enunters wh different partners, as many as ten sexual enunters each night up to four tim a week” (Altman). The AIDS outbreak had a ser impact too on the spac utilized by the gay muny, particularly the Castro, a district which a large proportn of the cy’s queer muny historilly have lled home.
Bs the district lost bs bee heterosexual San Francisns were sred to mgle wh and e the same rourc as homosexual men for fear of ntractg the disease (Sis 2001). " (DeBare) The removal of a type of bs that was such a cril social lotn for the gay muny was tragic for the Castro district, as the article lls , the “end of an era. Sce those early, heady days of what was then lled the Gay Liberatn Movement, the bar rag evolved to bee the undisputed newspaper of rerd for the Bay Area's LGBTQ muny, distributg 20, 000 paper pi each Thursday, and of urse available 24/7 onle.
The bars helped shape and harn San Francis's gay inty. * san francisco gay paper *
Acrdg to Michael Yamasha, a gay man who has been the paper's publisher sce 2013, the paper has never missed an issue adle — not even when threatened by the Loma Prieta earthquake 1989. Nile Murray Ramirez, a gay man who serv as a San Diego human rights missner and who -chairs that cy's mayoral LGBTQ advisory body, said that he was exced to disver the B.
In November 1976 the paper whheld endorsg any printial ndidate due to neher of the major party ndidat supportg gay rights, while 1988 went wh civil rights lear Jse Jackson the June printial B.