It was a time before the rabow flag, before the Whe Night rts and before HIV and AIDS vastated a muny. This ABC7 special report, shown s entirety, giv a glimpse to what gay life was like San Francis 1976.
Contents:
- SF GAY HISTORY
- UNVERG GAY HISTORY SAN FRANCIS
- THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
- 5 HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BARS WE WISH STILL EXISTED
- LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
SF GAY HISTORY
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. * san fran gay history *
The California Supreme Court l that gays have the right to assemble, leadg to a proliferatn of gay bars and eventually the formatn of social and polil groups San Francis’s gay muny. This photo is of the sprawlg La Galleria ndomiums on the rner of Bh and Taylor streets on Thursday June 20, 2013, the se of the raid at the gay nightclub.
UNVERG GAY HISTORY SAN FRANCIS
An iative by the Natnal Park Service and lol guis give an overview of unrappreciated s that helped shape San Francis’s gay muny, and the natn’s. * san fran gay history *
Entertaer and drag queen Jose Sarria ns for San Francis supervisor, the first openly gay ndidate to n for public office the Uned Stat. 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.
Mona’s, the first lbian bar San Francis, opened on Unn Street 1934, while nightclubs wh drag shows attracted both gay and straight dienc. 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.
THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
San Francis was the first cy to elect an openly gay man to public office. The Castro district gave birth to the LGBT civil rights movement. LGBT... * san fran gay history *
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.
That same year, the Natnal Planng Conference of Homophile Organizatns held the first natnal nventn of gay and lbian groups San Francis.
5 HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BARS WE WISH STILL EXISTED
If San Francis is on your gay travel erary, this gui will tell you everythg you need to know about s famo LGBTQ events and tablishments. * san fran gay history *
It was the first openly gay bar wh opened wdows San Francis, floutg the laws that once required gay bars to have blackened wdows or no wdows at all.
LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
As you refully pick your venue for this year's Pri celebratns, a mute to remember some foundatnal SF gay bars. * san fran gay history *
In November 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors, beg the first openly gay elected official California. It has bright neon rabow lights, vtage furnure, and huge wdows which display all the fun si, a tribute to beg the first gay bar to not have blackout wdows San Francis.
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Ken Jon (November 9, 1950 – January 13, 2021), a Black gay rights activist who fought agast the segregatn of LGBTQ activism and spac, lost…. The Bay Area Reporter, which is both San Francis and Ameri’s longt ntuoly-published and hight circulatn LGBTQ newspaper, has always been SF Gay History’s preement…. While the relaxatn rooms, snas and a seclud ck for nu sunbathg were all gone, somehow the bathhoe’s spir liv Flaherty for The New York TimWhen one thks of gay San Francis, this isn’t ually what to md.