San Francis Pri: Timele of gay rights history the Bay Area

Contents:

• SAN FRANCIS’S 3 MOST FAB GAY NEIGHBORHOODS
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

SAN FRANCIS’S 3 MOST FAB GAY NEIGHBORHOODS

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THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

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. The cy, named the “Gay Capal of the U. San Francis – home of the untry's first openly gay elected official (Harvey Milk), birthplace of the rabow flag, the first cy the Uned Stat to legalize gay marriage and host of the bt damn Pri para  the untry—remas a major LGBTQ+ epicenter.

(They don't ll the 'gay pal of the world' for nothg. So whether you're here June or not, honor SF's storied gay history at the mms, bars and cultural landmarks.

THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

-- The San Francis metropolan area has the hight percentage of the adult populatn who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) of any of the top 50 U. The rults are based on rpons to the qutn, "Do you, personally, intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr?

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Now, wh more acceptance of gays, and the ease of hookg up via mobile apps like Grdr and webs like Adam4Adam, may seem like visg the outdoors for sex is a thg of the past. Based on terviews wh several gay San Francis men and viss to lol parks, men of all ag are still cisg the cy's outdoor spac. Bryan Anrson, 65, who's gay, was talkg to another man near the clump of tre where Borowy's body had been found.

Corral said he's never alt wh the issue of gay men cisg the parks himself, but "the attus of the police partment have certaly changed the past 40 years. There, he said, he saw a lot of weddg rgs on men the park, and seems there's more of a need to be secretive about gay sex.

THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

"There's still a lot of 'hh hh' around beg gay and gay issu" Seattle, said Wood, "whereas San Francis, I feel like you n talk about anythg at any time. Officer Ted Lattig, the gay LGBT liaison for Missn Statn, which overse the parks, said police haven't received plats about sex the parks and haven't patrolled for recently. "No one here is judgg that, and I'm very aware that the gay muny, cisg n be viewed as a celebratn of who you are....

Kev Casey, 57, who's gay, was standg on the Diamond Street si of the park wh a iend. Gay Supervisor Stt Wiener, whose District 8 clus the Castro, said an email, "I haven't received any plats about park cisg, " and the practice didn't motivate his recent legislative proposal to tablish nsistent closg hours for the cy's parks, om midnight to 5 a. Julian Clift said he'd heard about men hookg up at Berkeley's Aquatic Park sce the 1980s, but wasn't until the late 1990s that someone om the Whe Horse, an Oakland gay bar that he equented, told him where to look.

But the area n be harr to navigate for those who are not whe gay men. The Harvey Milk-era of gay rights activism is no ls important — ’s jt that the LGBTQIA+ muni are vast and nta myriad ways to exprs and reprent sexualy and genr. Growg up gay the Amerin South was not a pleasant experience, Miah Jefa says.

In the South Bay, they go to the off-the-beaten-path gay bar Renegas. “Jolene’s is also a spot that is workg hard to -cis-gay-man the queer nightlife scene, ” Calamia says.

Thirty people marched down Polk street as part of the San Francis Gay Liberatn March, acrdg to Mark Sawch om the GLBT Historil Society Mm San forward several s later, crowds have grown om thoands to more than a ln participants paradg down Market Street every year --- at least until the COVID-19 panmic. And went back to 1970, was a two day event that June Here's how to watch 2023 San Francis Pri Para on ABC7Sawch says there was a piic "gay-" gatherg Goln Gate Park's Speedway found TONS of footage our ABC7 News archive datg back to the 1972 para when was lled Christopher Street Wt.

Sawch says the tle referenc the street New York Cy's Greenwich Village neighborhood where Stonewall and other tablishments tered to LGBTQ the para's ceptn 51 years ago, the para has gone through several name Origal rabow flag returns home to SF, displayed at GLBT Historil Society1973 -1980: Gay Freedom Day1981 - 1994: Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para1995 - 2013: San Francis Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Pri Celebratn2014- to prent: San Francis Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Pri Para and CelebratnMORE: San Francis Internatnal Airport opens termal honorg Harvey MilkOf urse, the para is now simply referred to as "San Francis Pri. "WATCH: LOOKBACK: What gay life was like San Francis 1976Throughout the years, ntgents the para took a stance for eedom of speech, fightg for equal rights and more fundg for AIDS rearch. The San Francis Gay Men's Chos was the guidg force behd the Artists Portal, and their performanc—ongog for more than 40 years—are well worth checkg out.

If you love drag, check out one of the performanc at Oasis, a gay bathhoe turned nightclub, and show venue, found 2015 by lol drag stars Hekla and D'arcy Drollger. One of the untry's first gay bars, Tw Peaks Tavern is a favore of seasoned lol gays, cludg S. Gay Mens' Chos artistic director Tim Seelig, part thanks to s large plate glass wdows and people watchg.

's sole gay sports bar ( also has a siblg Wt Hollywood) and featur a tasty pub gb menu and, on Thursdays, go-go boys. And although Polk Street ed to be a buzzg gay strip, s sole remag waterg hole is The Cch Saloon, where you n take a taste of a bygone era, pl an episo of "Drag Race" or sports game on the monors.