A s-old ban on gay bathho was about to be lifted. Then, a panmic. – The Hill

Contents:

• CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC
• REGULAR ARTICLEWHY DO GAY MEN LIVE SAN FRANCIS?☆
• 5 REASONS WHYSAN FRANCIS'S ORIGAL GAYBORHOOD REMAS TIMELS
• HOW MILARY HISTORY WAS CENTRAL TO SAN FRANCIS BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD
• MOVG TO LGBT SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• A S-OLD BAN ON GAY BATHHO WAS ABOUT TO BE LIFTED. THEN, A PANMIC.
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC

Now famo for s annual Pri ftival, queer performanc and open gay bars, San Francis is a cy of love and diversy. I dug a ltle to the bottom for plac and events to check out Castro Gay Capal of the WorldThe openns and eedom of the LGBT muny today sure didn’t e easy.

REGULAR ARTICLEWHY DO GAY MEN LIVE SAN FRANCIS?☆

Photo cred: Goln Gate Natnal Parks ConservancyDurg WWII, “blue discharg” (a form of admistrative ary discharge) were issued by the US to people who were ught engagg homosexual San Francis beg the last port of ll before war the Pacific, many homosexuals were left behd to form their own muny of “intified gays”. 1977: Harvey MilkPhoto cred: Roger EbertHarvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to public office. At a time of rampant discrimatn, he beme a voice for the LGBT muny wh bold reform agendas that protect gay phed for improvements lol servic and facili Castro, and spoke out on important issu for margalised muni (LGBT people, women, racial mori etc) cred: The Bold ItalicHe also sponsored an anti-discrimatn bill and helped pass a gay rights ordance removg anti-gay discrimatn hog and today, his ntributns are wily regnised wh the muny and paved the way for future ton and gay policians like Gav Newsom and Mark Leno.

For stance, Bobbi Campbell led tnal projects that helped spread awarens about “Gay Cancer” and s, San Francis remas one of the ontnners AIDS rearch and and Events that scream #PriIf you’re thkg of makg a trip down to the vibrant Castro District, here are some plac and events to check out:Tw Peaks TavernBack the day, gay bars operated only behd closed wdows, hidn om the rt of the neighbourhood. This was what ma Tw Peaks Tavern so was the first gay bar San Francis to feature full-length open wdows, allowg s LGBT patrons to look out and more importantly, to let others look .

It was our first time a gay bar, and we had no ia what to, the bartenr, weled heartily spe the by afternoon and we had a lovely chat wh Cdy, a lady stg the rner.

5 REASONS WHYSAN FRANCIS'S ORIGAL GAYBORHOOD REMAS TIMELS

If someone wanted to travel by unicycle or be a whe person wh dreadlocks or raise a child munally among a group of gays or live on a boat or start a ridiculo-soundg pany, that was jt fe.

HOW MILARY HISTORY WAS CENTRAL TO SAN FRANCIS BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD

This sprg, after the cy’s gay-pri para banned police officers om marchg uniform, Breed announced that out of solidary, she wouldn’t march eher. The San Francis metropolan area has a higher percentage of adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr than any other cy the untry, a new survey found. Whether that stat quo is poverty, polil opprsn, homophobia or racism, San Francis beme a bean for people who wanted somethg different.

In the 1960s Phillip Burton, a gff, pla spoken and passnate polil strategist, begs pullg together a liberal movement volvg a wi range of groups — cludg labor unns, Black people and gay folks.

It hered a progrsive era the cy which clud the electn of the first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk. " It was ed by Republins as shorthand for extreme and liberal … anti-war, pro-gay rights and supportg a woman’s accs to an abortn.

MOVG TO LGBT SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

The senr pastor and elrs of San Francis's evangelil Cy Church will no longer require members to absta om homosexual practice, so long as the homosexual activy occurs the ntext of marriage. Instead, on the matter of homosexual practice, the Pastor and Elr Board gave preemence to their judgment regardg what nduc more to human flourishg and, oddly, to a scripturally misguid book wrten by former Veyard pastor Ken Wilson lled A Letter to My Congregatn.

” Wilson ntends wrongly that the biblil dictment of homosexual practice is limed to exploative relatnships wh adolcents, slav, and temple prostut, as though the were the only forms of homosexual practice known to persons of the ancient Near East and the Gre-Roman world.

We receive ditn that Pl did not have only exploative or promiscuo acts of homosexual practice view, given (1) Pl’s appeal to a nature argument Rom 1:26–27; (2) his strong tertextual echo to Genis 1–2 and the Levil prohibns when cg homosexual practice (Rom 1:24–27; 1 Cor 6:9; 1 Tim 1:10); (3) the unqualified character of his dictment (cludg an terdictn of lbianism Rom 1:26); and (4) the fact that even some Gre-Roman moralists (to say nothg of Jews and Christians) rejected homosexual practice absolutely.

A S-OLD BAN ON GAY BATHHO WAS ABOUT TO BE LIFTED. THEN, A PANMIC.

The bt biblil scholars who have studied extensively the issue of homosexual practice, cludg advot for homosexual unns (such as William Loar and Bernatte Brooten), know that the scriptural dictment of homosexual practice clus a rejectn of mted homosexual unns.

Wilson also ntends that Pl’s approach of tolerance toward matters of diet and lendar Romans 14 should ern the church’s actns on homosexual practice. For Wilson, homosexual practice is an adiaphoron, a “matter of difference, ” over which Christians n and should agree to disagree. On the ntrary, he repeatedly warned nverts that unrepentant participants sexual immoraly—cludg homosexual practice, ct, adultery, sex wh prostut, and fornitn—would not her the kgdom of God (1 Ths 4:3–7; 1 Cor 5; 6:9–10; 2 Cor 12:21; Gal 5:19–21; Eph 5:3–5).

In the ntext of Romans, there n be no qutn of Pl regardg homosexual practice wh the same moral difference as matters of diet and lendar. Akatharsia) general and homosexual practice particular as egreg stanc of supprsg the tth about the way the Creator ma . The same scriptural jtifitn Cy Church offers to treat as permissible homosexual sex the ntext of what Cy Church ems a marriage uld be ed to say that ct is acceptable so long as occurs the ntext of a “marriage” between nsentg adults.

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

A homosexual “marriage, ” like an ctuo “marriage, ” merely celebrat and regulariz (i.