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Contents:
- CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC
- HOW MILARY HISTORY WAS CENTRAL TO SAN FRANCIS BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD
- WHY DID SAN ANCIS BEME THE SE OF THE FIRST MAJOR URBAN GAY MUNY THE UNED STAT?
CULTUR EXPLAED: HOW DID SAN FRANCIS BEE THE WORLD’S GAY MEC
San Francis is known for s annual Pri ftival, LGBT performanc and open gay bars. But how exactly did this e to be? * when did san francisco became a gay city *
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. Photo cred: Goln Gate Natnal Parks ConservancyDurg WWI, “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”.
HOW MILARY HISTORY WAS CENTRAL TO SAN FRANCIS BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD
* when did san francisco became a gay city *
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.
WHY DID SAN ANCIS BEME THE SE OF THE FIRST MAJOR URBAN GAY MUNY THE UNED STAT?
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. * when did san francisco became a gay city *
But, have you ever stopped and wonred how this associatn between gay people and San Francis me to be what is today? You uld also be classed as exempt if you were a public official, or if you had been refed ary service at any other time your life before you uld also be registered unf if you were a found to be a homosexual. Cred: JwhartonIn the book, The Life and Tim of Harvey Milk: The Mayor of Castro Street, thor Randy Shilts discs how, even wh the exemptn placed on gay men servg their untry as part of the draft, tens of thoands of homosexual men were still able to get through vettg procs:“The Send World War marked the first nflict which the armed servic tried to systematilly intify and then exclu homosexuals.
"In the procs of examg the nearly 36 ln men eligible for service, thoands were found to be homosexual and classified as such by the draft boards. Purge after purge of gays var branch nmned thoands to the 'blue discharge, ' named for the blue paper upon which homosexual discharg were wrten. ”When gay soldiers operatg the South Pacific were found out to be homosexual, like the fate scribed by Shilts, those men had to be procsed out of theatre, returned to maland Ameri and then be “blue discharged” to society.