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• GAY SAN FRANCIS: LOST FILM, 1965-1970
• GOLN GATE PARK2.55 MILESWHEN FRERICK LAW OLMSTED, ARCHECT OF NEW YORK'S CENTRAL PARK, GAZED 1865 UPON THE PLOT OF LAND SAN FRANCIS MAYOR FRANK MCCOPP WANTED TO TURN…HAIGHT STREET0.93 MILESWAS THE FALL OF 1966 OR THE WTER OF ’67? AS THE HAIGHT SAYG GO, IF YOU N REMEMBER THE SUMMER OF LOVE, YOU PROBABLY WEREN’T HERE. THE FOG WAS…CHATOWN ALLEYWAYS2.83 MILESIF YOU LOOK CLOSE TODAY AT THE CLKER-BRICK BUILDGS LG THE NARROW BACKSTREETS, PAST THE TEMPLE BALNI JUTTG OUT OVER BAKERI, ACUPUNCTURE…CY LIGHTS BOOKS3 MILESNO ONE ULD HAVE PREDICTED THE CULTURAL FORCE CY LIGHTS WOULD BEE WHEN FIRST OPENED 1953. SURE, HAD A PROLETARIAN ETHOS SUGGTED BY S…SAN FRANCIS MM OF MORN ART2.56 MILESWHEN THE SAN FRANCIS MM OF MORN ART EXPAND 2016, WAS A MD-BOGGLG FEAT THAT NEARLY TRIPLED THE STUTN'S SIZE TO ACMODATE A…CO TOWER3.31 MILESIF YOU WANT TO REALLY SEE SAN FRANCIS, HEAD TO CO TOWER, A 1933 ART BET SIGNED BY ARTHUR BROWN, JR. AND HENRY HOWARD THAT SS HIGH UP ON…GOLN GATE BRIDGE4.24 MILESFEW CI BOAST A STCTURE SO INIC AS THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE, MEMORATED EVERYTHG OM FILMS LIKE THE MALTE FALN TO NOT ONE BUT TWO EMOJIS…DOLOR PARK0.46 MILESWELE TO SAN FRANCIS'S SUNNY SI, THE LAND OF STREET BALL AND MAYAN-PYRAMID PLAYGROUNDS, SEMIPROFSNAL TANNG AND TA PIICS. ALTHOUGH THE…VIEW MORE ATTRACTNSVIEW MORE ATTRACTNSNEARBY SAN FRANCIS ATTRACTNS1. RABOW HONOR WALK0.03 MILESYOU'RE ALWAYS EXCELLENT PANY THE CASTRO, WHERE SIWALK PLAQU HONOR LGBT+ HERO. THE WALK NS ALONG MARKET ST OM NOE ST TO CASTO ST AND…2. HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN ACTN CENTER0.07 MILESHARVEY MILK’S FORMER MERA STOREONT WAS FEATURED THE AMY AWARD–WNG MOVIE MILK, AND NOW 'S HOME TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCY GROUP…3. SPARK ARTS0.08 MILESSEE WHAT THE CASTRO'S CREATIVE MUNY HAS BEEN DREAMG UP LATELY AT THIS ART SPACE SHOWSG LOL NEIGHBORHOOD TALENT. GALLERY SHOWS HERE ARE THE…4. BARBIE-DOLL WDOW0.11 MILESNO FIRST-TIME LOOP THROUGH THE CASTRO WOULD BE PLETE WHOUT A PEEK AT THIS WDOW DISPLAY FEATURG TRANS BARBI AND BILLY DOLL, A GAY ALTERNATIVE TO…5. HARVEY MILK & JANE WARNER PLAZAS
• AMERI’S FIRST GAY MM OPENS SAN FRANCIS

GAY SAN FRANCIS: LOST FILM, 1965-1970

The meetg, anized by Eric Garber, Jim Gordon, Terry Henrlg, Ellen Klag, Greg Penngton and Willie Walker, built on smaller gathergs that had started the prev fall, and clud members of the San Francis Lbian and Gay History Project, which had begun the late 1970s, and the San Francis Gay and Lbian Perdil Archiv, which had begun 1983. On May 18, the membership vot to name the anizatn the San Francis Bay Area Gay and Lbian Historil Society and elects the first board of directors, cludg -chairs Ilene Brettholz and Willie Walker (1949–2004).

Members of the newly formed society march the 1985 Internatnal Lbian & Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis.

The society quickly starts sharg s rourc, by puttg on s first exhibns: displays at a rnn of the Society for Individual Rights and at the San Francis Urban the same year, the society receiv the holdgs of the San Francis Gay and Lbian Perdil Archiv, creatg the nucls of s Perdils Collectn. The society rents a storage locker to acmodate further accsns, havg already outgrown s storage space the livg room of -founr Willie society receiv a trove of irreplaceable material om scholar and activist Will Rose, cludg the rerds of Gay Amerin Indians, the first LGBTQ Amerin Indian liberatn anizatn, found July October, members rry the Gay and Lbian Historil Society banner the send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights.

GOLN GATE PARK2.55 MILESWHEN FRERICK LAW OLMSTED, ARCHECT OF NEW YORK'S CENTRAL PARK, GAZED 1865 UPON THE PLOT OF LAND SAN FRANCIS MAYOR FRANK MCCOPP WANTED TO TURN…HAIGHT STREET0.93 MILESWAS THE FALL OF 1966 OR THE WTER OF ’67? AS THE HAIGHT SAYG GO, IF YOU N REMEMBER THE SUMMER OF LOVE, YOU PROBABLY WEREN’T HERE. THE FOG WAS…CHATOWN ALLEYWAYS2.83 MILESIF YOU LOOK CLOSE TODAY AT THE CLKER-BRICK BUILDGS LG THE NARROW BACKSTREETS, PAST THE TEMPLE BALNI JUTTG OUT OVER BAKERI, ACUPUNCTURE…CY LIGHTS BOOKS3 MILESNO ONE ULD HAVE PREDICTED THE CULTURAL FORCE CY LIGHTS WOULD BEE WHEN FIRST OPENED 1953. SURE, HAD A PROLETARIAN ETHOS SUGGTED BY S…SAN FRANCIS MM OF MORN ART2.56 MILESWHEN THE SAN FRANCIS MM OF MORN ART EXPAND 2016, WAS A MD-BOGGLG FEAT THAT NEARLY TRIPLED THE STUTN'S SIZE TO ACMODATE A…CO TOWER3.31 MILESIF YOU WANT TO REALLY SEE SAN FRANCIS, HEAD TO CO TOWER, A 1933 ART BET SIGNED BY ARTHUR BROWN, JR. AND HENRY HOWARD THAT SS HIGH UP ON…GOLN GATE BRIDGE4.24 MILESFEW CI BOAST A STCTURE SO INIC AS THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE, MEMORATED EVERYTHG OM FILMS LIKE THE MALTE FALN TO NOT ONE BUT TWO EMOJIS…DOLOR PARK0.46 MILESWELE TO SAN FRANCIS'S SUNNY SI, THE LAND OF STREET BALL AND MAYAN-PYRAMID PLAYGROUNDS, SEMIPROFSNAL TANNG AND TA PIICS. ALTHOUGH THE…VIEW MORE ATTRACTNSVIEW MORE ATTRACTNSNEARBY SAN FRANCIS ATTRACTNS1. RABOW HONOR WALK0.03 MILESYOU'RE ALWAYS EXCELLENT PANY THE CASTRO, WHERE SIWALK PLAQU HONOR LGBT+ HERO. THE WALK NS ALONG MARKET ST OM NOE ST TO CASTO ST AND…2. HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN ACTN CENTER0.07 MILESHARVEY MILK’S FORMER MERA STOREONT WAS FEATURED THE AMY AWARD–WNG MOVIE MILK, AND NOW 'S HOME TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCY GROUP…3. SPARK ARTS0.08 MILESSEE WHAT THE CASTRO'S CREATIVE MUNY HAS BEEN DREAMG UP LATELY AT THIS ART SPACE SHOWSG LOL NEIGHBORHOOD TALENT. GALLERY SHOWS HERE ARE THE…4. BARBIE-DOLL WDOW0.11 MILESNO FIRST-TIME LOOP THROUGH THE CASTRO WOULD BE PLETE WHOUT A PEEK AT THIS WDOW DISPLAY FEATURG TRANS BARBI AND BILLY DOLL, A GAY ALTERNATIVE TO…5. HARVEY MILK & JANE WARNER PLAZAS

Rpondg to a requt om the Historil Society, San Francis Mayor Art Agnos clar June as “Gay and Lbian History Month” the cy.

1990The society chang s name to the Gay and Lbian Historil Society of Northern California to reflect a wir geographil spe for s llectns, and mov to the Redstone Buildg on 16th Street, s first rented office space. The society accsns a major llectn om Louis Sullivan (1951–1991), a pneerg gay and transgenr activist and historian, a foundg member of the GLBT Historil Society, and the founr of the group now known as FTM Internatnal. The photos the llectn offer a rare glimpse to gay life 1970s San Francis, and a signifint number have sce been digized.

AMERI’S FIRST GAY MM OPENS SAN FRANCIS

1996 Thirty-five years after he beme the first openly gay ndidate for public office, José Jul Sarria (1922–2013) donat a nsirable archival llectn to the society.

1997The society helps to mark the centenary of the world’s first homosexual-rights anizatn by lendg around 30 ems to the monumental “Goodbye to Berl? 1998Donald Lus (1926–2003) donat the rerds of the natnal office of the Mattache Society, one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the Uned Stat.

The society chang s name aga to the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Historil Society, monly referred to as the GLBT Historil Society. The Associatn is a gay multiracial, multicultural, polil and social anizatn, found 1980, wh more than 30 chapters around the U.

In April 2021, the GLBT Historil Society receiv an archival donatn of a agment of one of the two monumental rabow flags first raised on June 25, 1978 San Francis’s Uned Natns Plaza at the San Francis Gay Freedom Day flag go on display at the GLBT Historil Society Mm June, as the mm opens after a long closure durg the COVID-19 panmic. AcknowledgmentsThanks to the followg dividuals for providg memori, documents and assistance wh illtratns: Lren Cuttler, Sasha Cuttler, Lnea Due, Pla Jabloner, Pla Lichtenberg, Ruth Mahaney, Greg Penngton, Gayle Rub and Sharon Ullman. Harvey Milk at the 1978 San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para; photograph by Crawford Barton, Crawford Barton Papers (1993-11).

Nurse and early AIDS activist Bobbi Campbell ed the ont wdow of this pharmacy to post a flyer 1981 warng the muny of “Gay Cancer”—bee neher the lol nor natnal ernment would sound the alarm—showg photos of lns ed by Kaposi sara (the rare ncer was found to be a rult of HIV’s toll on the immune system).

Tw Peaks Tavern go down history as the first gay bar Ameri wh wdows, meang patrons weren’t hidn om outsi view. G., the Dghters of Bilis and the Mattache Society) were jt begng, homosexualy was still registered as a pathology by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn. Operated by Harvey Milk om 1972 to 1978, the store beme the center of the neighborhood’s growg gay muny.

As the first cy the USA to legalise gay marriage and elect an openly gay official (Harvey Milk), San Francis is a te gay in. After s of standg at the foreont of gay culture, ntu to be globally regnised as one of the most progrsive and LGBTQ+ iendly ci the world.

Durg World War 1, the US Navy began dischargg known homosexual and black soldiers port ci, known as the “blue discharge” practice. As alhol was illegal until 1933, bars were already nng a risk, and was no more illegal to allow gay and lbian patrons to enter. Mona’s, the first lbian bar San Francis, opened on Unn Street 1934, while nightclubs wh drag shows attracted both gay and straight dienc.

The US ary’s blue discharge practice ntued to World War II, wh many gay men settlg San Francis at the end of the war.

From 1942 to 1943, ary patrols known as the San Francis Moral Drive targeted and raid the gay bars of San Francis, claimg to be protectg servicemen om homosexuals.

In 1943, the police raid the gay bar Rickshaw Chatown, arrtg dozens of patrons and settg off a small rt. However, by the end of the 1940s, the gay bar scene was growg and queer bars beme not only a safe space for gay and lbian people, but also a statn for visors to the cy, who watched performanc and mgled wh the lols. Many beat poets, cludg those who were openly gay such as Allen Gsberg, me to San Francis due to the more permissive environment and aligned themselv wh LGBTQ+ groups.

The Dghters of Bilis, found 1955, was the first lbian-centred anisatn the USA, while the Mattache Society, one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the USA, beme headquartered San Francis 1956.

In 1961, entertaer and drag queen José Sarria beme the first openly gay ndidate the USA to n for public office. Sarria said, “From that day on, nobody ran for anythg San Francis whout knockg on the door of the gay muny.

When police officers raid the gay bar Tay-Bh Inn and arrted 103 people, the public began to qutn the harassment of the gay muny.

By 1962, gay bar owners had found the Tavern Guild, the first gay bs associatn, rponse to the ntued police raids and harassment.