A Gui to Gay Los Angel, 1965 | Lost LA | Food & Disvery | KCET

Contents:

• A GUI TO GAY LOS ANGEL, 1965
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• BEE IS NOT GAY ENOUGH!
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• DERRICK GAY FOUND 45 PEOPLE FLORIDA, TEXAS AND 23 OTHER STAT
• JIM GAY
• PAT GAY
• MOSW GAY BARS

A GUI TO GAY LOS ANGEL, 1965

Some may thk that the gay muny’s obssn wh fdg out the sexual proclivi of a potential partner is a trend of today. Here, we take a look at the tools gay men have historilly ed to terme who is to what.

Color-d, this system has been historilly ed by gay men to dite preferred sexual fetish, what kd of sex they are seekg, and whether they are a top or is thought that the wearg of bandanas by men origated San Francis after the Gold Rh, when, bee of a shortage of women, men dancg wh each other square danc veloped a where the man wearg the blue bandana took the male part the square dance, and the man wearg the red bandana took the female part.

Gay rights monstratn at the DNC, New York Cy, 1976.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

In Gay Semtics, Hal Fischer wr:In San Francis, the signs began appearg around 1971. Startg 1964, a bsman by the name of Bob Damron published a book of all the gay bars he knew om his nstant travels across the Uned Stat. But Gonzaba, who rearch historil gay nightlife, se the nnectns between the ease of the prent and the nty-grty logistics of the past.

A equent traveler himself, he began publishg his guis annually as a way to help queer dividuals, particularly gay men, navigate both their hometowns and unfaiar spac (siar to the earlier Negro Motorist Green Book, which aid Black travelers). Their archival project, tled “Mappg the Gay Guis, ” is a llectn of digal maps, each verg a year of Damron’s guis.

BEE IS NOT GAY ENOUGH!

Click away, and ps agulate, then spl, then stter aga; the map begs to remble an unwieldy nstellatn, nstantly Febary, Mappg the Gay Guis has placed ps on 23, 000 listgs 32 stat and D. ”A screenshot om the Mappg the Gay Guis project.

Courty Mappg the Gay GuisThough the Damron Company ntu to publish guis, most listgs the historil guis no longer exist. Mappg the Gay Guis began by plottg Southern lotns, partly bee the regn’s listgs were sparser than those New York or California. “We’re lookg at through Damron’s ey, a whe gay man’s ey, ” Gonzaba says.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Sexual orientatn refers to the endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or other genrs, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and straight orientatns.

As GLAAD not, "Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay, bisexual or queer. A person who transns om female to male and is attracted solely to men would typilly intify as a gay man.

Butterfli mt’ve fluttered many a hopeful rear’s stomach as they skimmed the guibook’s list of rtrants, bars, and nightclubs: the addrs offered potential antidot to guibook’s thor, Bob Damron, gave gay rears hope by flhg out worlds that would’ve otherwise remaed unknowable. His list nfirmed that a gay Ameri existed and that wh this quasi-natn, many smaller gay Ameris proliferated.

DERRICK GAY FOUND 45 PEOPLE FLORIDA, TEXAS AND 23 OTHER STAT

Courty of the ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the USC Librari. Bookstore owner Ron Ernst said Damron belonged to a macho breed of homo entreprenr that refed to kowtow to civic thori, pecially ps attemptg to extort “gayola.

Its moniker followed the homosexual place-namg practice of pairg a lor wh an animal. Although early and mid-20th century scriptns typify Los Angel as teemg wh gays (poet Hart Crane ghed that the number of “faggots” he saw cisg Pershg Square as “legn”), lotg a place like the Red Raven required more than observatn.

JIM GAY

” “It had thirty-five gay bars.

PAT GAY

” The list was so valuable, and potentially crimatg, that Call numbered each py to track s Damron’s method of llectg entri, Call said, “[Bob got] the opportuny to travel the Uned Stat and to be weled all of the gay bars. He would go to the ma ci and fd out om those gay bars where there were homosexual bars elsewhere the state.

And Now, It's a ChipotleDpe The Addrs Book’s reputatn as the gold standard among homosexual baekers, ’s important to note that as a pre-Stonewall (1969) document nceived of gay space ways that would be dismissed Jregui, an art profsor at Whtier College, says Damron didn’t vis and vet every se he listed.

MOSW GAY BARS

What had seemed a gay place when they moved there was beg ls so. 8 offic once hoed a gay bathhoe. Jregui grew fascated and when Whtier College gave him a grant for a digal project, he knew he had to e the money to revivify The Addrs Book’s gay Los Angel.

”Los Angel reigns as a gay attractn the midcentury edns.