The Gay Hbands of San Francis - FilmFreeway

Contents:

• GAY SAN FRANCIS (1970)
• ‘FAIRYLAND’ LOOKS BACK AT GAY LIFE SAN FRANCIS AND THE AIDS CRISIS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHG
• 20 FILMS THAT SHOW THE MANY SIS OF SAN FRANCIS SAN FRANCIS IS A POPULAR LOTN FOR FILMMAKERS | © SIMONE ANNE SAMANTHA CARNAS 24 DECEMBER 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT SAN FRANCIS HAS PROVED A PERENNIALLY POPULAR LOTN FOR FILMMAKERS. THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE, THE BAY, THE ALARMGLY STEEP STREETS AND THE DIVERSE NEIGHBORHOODS PROVI AS RICH A BACKDROP FOR MOVI AS ANYTHG NEW YORK CY AND LOS ANGEL OFFER. VIEW ALL TRIPS ‘VERTIGO’ (1958) - AME - ALED HCHCK’S MASTERPIECE STARS JAM STEWART AS NROTIC EX-POLICE TECTIVE ‘STTIE’ FERGON, WHO IS TRICKED TO BELIEVG THAT MALEE ELSTER, THE MYSTER WOMAN HE WAS TRAILG, PLAYED BY KIM NOVAK, HAS FALLEN TO HER ATH OM A MISSN BELL TOWER. THE MOVIE VERS A LOT OF SAN FRANCIS, OM THE MISSN DISTRICT TO NOB HILL. NOTE STTIE’S FAMO PERSPECTIVE AT FORT POT THE PRID – RIGHT BY THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE – WHERE HE SE MALEE THROW HERSELF TO THE BAY. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP CROATIA ECUADOR EGYPT SPA TURKEY ICELAND BALI MOROC SOUTH AI JAPAN THAILAND MEXI GREECE INDIA ‘BLUE JASME’ (2013) - AME - WOODY ALLEN’S EDY-DRAMA ABOUT A MANHATTAN SOCIALE, JASME (CATE BLANCHETT), EE FALL ON THE WT COAST TOOK HIM BACK TO SAN FRANCIS (WHERE HE HAD FILMED THE 1969 MOCKUMENTARY TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN). KEY SCEN WERE SHOT THE MISSN DISTRICT (WHERE JASME’S WORKG-CLASS SISTER, PLAYED BY SALLY HAWKS, LIV AND WORKS), CHATOWN AND OCEAN BEACH. NOTABLE FOOD AND DRK STOPS CLU AUB ZAM ZAM BAR ON HAIGHT STREET, THE RAMP WATERONT RTRANT ON MISSN BAY AND THE HISTORIC ESLLE WERY LARKSPUR, MAR COUNTY. ‘DIRTY HARRY’ (1971) - AME - CLT EASTWOOD’S VIGILANTE-STYLE ‘DIRTY’ HARRY CALLAHAN CHAS AFTER A KILLER AT KEZAR STADIUM. OTHER FAMO SPOTS CLU VISTA POT OVERLOOKG THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE AND THE CROSS AT MOUNT DAVIDSON. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP ‘BULLT’ (1968) - AME - STARRG STEVE MCQUEEN AS A SAN FRANCIS POLICE LITENANT PROTECTG A MOBSTER, PETER YAT’S ACTN THRILLER FEATURED ONE OF THE MOST EXCG AND FLUENTIAL R CHAS FILM HISTORY. LASTG NEARLY 11 MUT, STARTS AT FISHERMAN’S WHARF, PROCEEDS THROUGH BERNAL HEIGHTS, POTRERO HILL, NORTH BEACH, RSIAN HILL AND THE MARA, THEN HS DALY CY AND BNO MOUNTA STATE PARK, ENDG UP GUADALUPE VALLEY, BRISBANE. PROFSNAL DRIVERS DID MOST OF THE STUNTS, BUT MCQUEEN PERFORMED A UPLE OF THEM HIMSELF. ‘ESPE FROM ALTRAZ’ (1979) - AME - DON SIEGEL’S THRILLER PICTS THE JUNE 11 1962 PE OM ALTRAZ FERAL PENENTIARY OF THREE MAT (CLT EASTWOOD, FRED WARD AND JACK THIBE) WHOSE FAT REMA UNCERTA. THOUGH SOME OF THE PRISON SCEN WERE FILMED AT PARAMOUNT STUDS LOS ANGEL, MUCH OF THE MOVIE WAS MA AT THE PRISON, WHICH HAD BEEN ABANDONED AFTER S CLOSG. THE FILMMAKERS’ $500,000 REFURBISHMENT OF THE PRISON STOOD THE BUILDGS GOOD STEAD WHEN PUBLIC VISS TO ALTRAZ WERE FIRST PERMTED OCTOBER 1973. THE PRISON IS NOW ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR TOURIST ATTRACTNS. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. ‘PACIFIC HEIGHTS’ (1990) - AME - JOHN SCHLGER’S PSYCHOLOGIL THRILLER – WHICH STARS MELANIE GRIFFH, MICHAEL KEATON AND MATTHEW MODE – UNFOLDS THE EPONYMO NEIGHBORHOOD, SAN FRANCIS’S MOST EXCLIVE AND ONE OF THE RICHT THE UNTRY. (IT IS FAMO FOR S MIX OF VICTORIAN, EDWARDIAN AND MISSN REVIVAL HO.) HOWEVER, THE POLYCHROME HOE ED THE FILM IS ON THE RNER OF 19TH AND TEXAS STREETS POTRERO HILL. ‘SISTER ACT 2: BACK THE HAB’ (1993) - AME - STARRG WHOOPI GOLDBERG, THE SEQUEL TO THE HIGHLY SUCCSFUL SISTER ACT (1992) WAS A STEPPG STONE FOR LRYN HILL, JENNIFER LOVE HEWT AND KATHY NAJIMY. FILMG LOTNS CLU THE BANK OF AMERI BUILDG AT 555 CALIFORNIA STREET AND THE CY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCIS. ‘THE CONVERSATN’ (1974) - AME - FILMED BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA BETWEEN THE FIRST TWO GODFATHER MOVI, THE CONVERSATN STARS GENE HACKMAN AS SURVEILLANCE EXPERT HARRY CL, WHO BE CREASGLY PARANOID AS HE GETS ENMHED A MURR SE; THE MOVIE WAS FLUENCED BY MICHELANGELO ANTONNI’S BLOW-UP (1966) AND THE WATERGATE CRISIS. SCEN WERE SHOT UNN SQUARE DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCIS, HAY VALLEY (WHERE CL LIV), POTRERO HILL, POLK GULCH, THE HAIGHT, THE FANCIAL DISTRICT, SOMA, COW HOLLOW, PACIFIC HEIGHTS AND THE WTERN ADDN. ‘SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURRER’ (1993) - AME - VIEWERS OF THE MIKE MYERS EDY SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURRER WILL GET GLIMPS OF EVERY PART OF SAN FRANCIS. LOTNS CLU THE PALACE OF FE ARTS, CO TOWER, THE FOG CY DER AND THE SAN FRANCIS WAR MEMORIAL. ‘BASIC INSTCT’ (1992) - AME - UNHIBED CRIME NOVELIST CATHERE TRAMELL (SHARON STONE) PLAYS T AND MOE WH DISSOLUTE HOMICI P NICK CURRAN (MICHAEL DOUGLAS) PL VERHOEVEN’S PROVOTIVE SEX THRILLER. TRAMELL’S MANSN IS PACIFIC HEIGHTS AND OTHER LOTNS ED THE MOVIE CLU TELEGRAPH HILL, ROHNERT PARK, THE EMBARRO ROADWAY AND THE TOS CAFé NORTH BEACH. THE OLD POLICE PRECCT WHERE CATHERE IS TERROGATED WAS AT 850 BRYANT STREET BY THE HALL OF JTICE SOMA. STREETS THAT FEATURE THE R CHASE (FLUENCED BY THE ONE BULLT) CLUD FRNO, KEARNY AND DUNN ALLEY. THE ST AND CREW ALSO WENT FURTHER AFIELD CALIFORNIA, TO CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA (FOR CATHERE’S BEACH HOE) AND PETALUMA. ‘MRS DOUBTFIRE’ (1993) - AME - ONE OF ROB WILLIAMS’S MOST ACCLAIMED FILMS, MRS DOUBTFIRE STARS HIM AS A NEWLY DIVORCED ACTOR WHO POS AS A HOEKEEPER SO HE N SPEND TIME WH HIS OWN CHILDREN. THE HOE THE FILM IS AT 2640 STEER STREET PACIFIC HEIGHTS, AND IS STILL VISED BY MANY PEOPLE. WHEN WILLIAMS MTED SUICI 2014, FANS BROUGHT FLOWERS AND TRKETS THERE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO HIM. ‘BEDAZZLED’ (2000) - AME - A DISAPPOTMENT TO SOME BUT A GOOFY CLASSIC TO OTHERS, THIS REMAKE OF THE 1967 BRISH EDY, STARRG BRENDAN FRASER AND ELIZABETH HURLEY, SHOWS OFF MANY FAMO SAN FRANCIS SIGHTS. THEY CLU THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE, WASHGTON SQUARE, THE VAILLANURT FOUNTA, CY HALL AND THE PALACE OF FE ARTS. ‘THE WEDDG PLANNER’ (2001) - AME - A WELL-LIKED ROM, THE WEDDG PLANNER FEATUR MANY PICTURQUE SAN FRANCIS LOTNS. THEY CLU CY HALL (WHERE THE JENNIFER LOPEZ AND JT CHAMBERS CHARACTERS GO TO GET MARRIED) AND GOLN GATE PARK (WHERE THEY DANCE). ONE OF THE MOST FAMO SCEN TAK PLACE AT TAYLOR AND SACRAMENTO STREETS, WHERE MATTHEW MCCONGHEY’S CHARACTER STEPS TO SAVE LOPEZ WHEN SHE’S ABOUT TO BE CSHED BY A ROLLG DUMPSTER. ‘THE PRCS DIARI’ (2001) - AME - WHAT MANY PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE PRCS DIARI IS THAT THE HOE MIA THERMOPOLIS (ANNE HATHAWAY) LIV ISN’T ONE OF SAN FRANCIS’S PRTIG NEIGHBORHOODS; ’S ACTUALLY A FORMER FIREHOE AT BRAZIL AND ATHENS STREETS THE EXCELSR DISTRICT. OTHER FILMG LOTNS CLU ANTHONY R GROVE HIGH SCHOOL ON LYON STREET THE UPSLE MARA DISTRICT AND PHOENIX TERRACE OFF PACIFIC AVENUE NEAR NOB HILL. ‘THE SWEETT THG’ (2002) - AME - CAMERON DIAZ, CHRISTA APPLEGATE AND SELMA BLAIR TAKE DIENC THROUGH THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF SAN FRANCIS DATG THE SWEETT THG. SCEN WERE FILMED AT THE PALACE OF FE ARTS, NEW GRANT AVENUE CLEANERS ON VALLEJO STREET AND NORTH BEACH, TO NAME JT A FEW OF THE LOTNS. ‘THE JOY LUCK CLUB’ (1993) - AME - BERNAL HEIGHTS, PORTRERO HILL, CHATOWN AND RSIAN HILL WERE AMONG THE SAN FRANCIS LOTNS OF WAYNE WANG’S ADAPTATN OF AMY TAN’S NOVEL ABOUT THE EXPERIENC OF FOUR MAHJONG-PLAYG CHE IMMIGRANT WOMEN AND THEIR DGHTERS. SOME OF THE CHE SCEN WERE SHOT OUTSI THE CY RICHMOND, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY AND WOODSI, SAN MATEO COUNTY. THE GOLN GATE NATNAL RECREATN AREA MAR COUNTY WAS ANOTHER OF THE FILM’S LOTNS. ‘THE PURSU OF HAPPYNS’ (2006) - AME - IN THIS ADAPTATN OF ENTREPRENR CHRIS GARDNER’S MEMOIR, WILL SMH AND HIS SON JAN PLAY A FATHER AND SON STGGLG TO SURVIVE AS THEY’RE BOUNCED AROUND DIFFERENT SAN FRANCIS SHELTERS. LOTNS CLU GLEN PARK STATN, GOLN GATE PARK, ROSS ALLEY CHATOWN, TAYLOR STREET RSIAN HILL AND PE STREET THE FANCIAL DISTRICT. ‘MILK’ (2008) - AME - IN G VAN SANT’S MILK, SEAN PENN PLAYS THE SAN FRANCIS GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND POLICIAN HARVEY MILK (ORIGALLY A NEW YORKER). MUCH OF THE FILMG TOOK PLACE THE CASTRO DISTRICT. CY HALL ALSO FEATUR THE MOVIE. ‘LA MISSN’ (2009) - AME - LA MISSN TELLS THE STORY OF AN EX-N, PLAYED BY SAN FRANCIS-BORN BENJAM BRATT, WHO FDS OUT THAT HIS SON IS GAY. THE FILM SHOWS ONE OF THE MOST BETIFUL NEIGHBORHOODS SAN FRANCIS – THE MISSN. ‘SAN ANDREAS’ (2015) - AME - SAN ANDREAS TAK VIEWERS ON A CGI-BOOSTED, ACTN-PACKED RI OM LOS ANGEL TO SAN FRANCIS AFTER A MAGNU 9.0 EARTHQUAKE SHAK UP CALIFORNIA. THE MOST REALISTIC AND TERRIFYG SCENE TAK PLACE ON THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE AS ’S ENGULFED BY WATER. GRAHAM FULLER NTRIBUTED ADDNAL REPORTG TO THIS ARTICLE. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• THE GAY HBANDS OF SAN FRANCIS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• SAN FRANCIS GAY SNAS

GAY SAN FRANCIS (1970)

Shot between 1965-1970, Gay San Francis featur a llectn of credible footage of San Francis’s thrivg LGBTQ culture, wh a foc on the Tenrlo, San Francis’s first queer neighborhood.

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‘FAIRYLAND’ LOOKS BACK AT GAY LIFE SAN FRANCIS AND THE AIDS CRISIS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHG

When Andrew Durham was searchg for fancg for “Fairyland, ” his film adaptatn of Alysia Abbott’s memoir about growg up San Francis wh her gay sgle father and the impact that the AIDS crisis had on the muny of LGBTQ Bohemians who populated her world, he received a shockg rejectn. He also had a gay father who had died of AIDS durg the darkt days of the vis.

“Fairyland” is about more than jt a disease that st a pall over gay life for more than a .

20 FILMS THAT SHOW THE MANY SIS OF SAN FRANCIS SAN FRANCIS IS A POPULAR LOTN FOR FILMMAKERS | © SIMONE ANNE SAMANTHA CARNAS 24 DECEMBER 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT SAN FRANCIS HAS PROVED A PERENNIALLY POPULAR LOTN FOR FILMMAKERS. THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE, THE BAY, THE ALARMGLY STEEP STREETS AND THE DIVERSE NEIGHBORHOODS PROVI AS RICH A BACKDROP FOR MOVI AS ANYTHG NEW YORK CY AND LOS ANGEL OFFER. VIEW ALL TRIPS ‘VERTIGO’ (1958) - AME - ALED HCHCK’S MASTERPIECE STARS JAM STEWART AS NROTIC EX-POLICE TECTIVE ‘STTIE’ FERGON, WHO IS TRICKED TO BELIEVG THAT MALEE ELSTER, THE MYSTER WOMAN HE WAS TRAILG, PLAYED BY KIM NOVAK, HAS FALLEN TO HER ATH OM A MISSN BELL TOWER. THE MOVIE VERS A LOT OF SAN FRANCIS, OM THE MISSN DISTRICT TO NOB HILL. NOTE STTIE’S FAMO PERSPECTIVE AT FORT POT THE PRID – RIGHT BY THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE – WHERE HE SE MALEE THROW HERSELF TO THE BAY. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP CROATIA ECUADOR EGYPT SPA TURKEY ICELAND BALI MOROC SOUTH AI JAPAN THAILAND MEXI GREECE INDIA ‘BLUE JASME’ (2013) - AME - WOODY ALLEN’S EDY-DRAMA ABOUT A MANHATTAN SOCIALE, JASME (CATE BLANCHETT), EE FALL ON THE WT COAST TOOK HIM BACK TO SAN FRANCIS (WHERE HE HAD FILMED THE 1969 MOCKUMENTARY TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN). KEY SCEN WERE SHOT THE MISSN DISTRICT (WHERE JASME’S WORKG-CLASS SISTER, PLAYED BY SALLY HAWKS, LIV AND WORKS), CHATOWN AND OCEAN BEACH. NOTABLE FOOD AND DRK STOPS CLU AUB ZAM ZAM BAR ON HAIGHT STREET, THE RAMP WATERONT RTRANT ON MISSN BAY AND THE HISTORIC ESLLE WERY LARKSPUR, MAR COUNTY. ‘DIRTY HARRY’ (1971) - AME - CLT EASTWOOD’S VIGILANTE-STYLE ‘DIRTY’ HARRY CALLAHAN CHAS AFTER A KILLER AT KEZAR STADIUM. OTHER FAMO SPOTS CLU VISTA POT OVERLOOKG THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE AND THE CROSS AT MOUNT DAVIDSON. EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP ‘BULLT’ (1968) - AME - STARRG STEVE MCQUEEN AS A SAN FRANCIS POLICE LITENANT PROTECTG A MOBSTER, PETER YAT’S ACTN THRILLER FEATURED ONE OF THE MOST EXCG AND FLUENTIAL R CHAS FILM HISTORY. LASTG NEARLY 11 MUT, STARTS AT FISHERMAN’S WHARF, PROCEEDS THROUGH BERNAL HEIGHTS, POTRERO HILL, NORTH BEACH, RSIAN HILL AND THE MARA, THEN HS DALY CY AND BNO MOUNTA STATE PARK, ENDG UP GUADALUPE VALLEY, BRISBANE. PROFSNAL DRIVERS DID MOST OF THE STUNTS, BUT MCQUEEN PERFORMED A UPLE OF THEM HIMSELF. ‘ESPE FROM ALTRAZ’ (1979) - AME - DON SIEGEL’S THRILLER PICTS THE JUNE 11 1962 PE OM ALTRAZ FERAL PENENTIARY OF THREE MAT (CLT EASTWOOD, FRED WARD AND JACK THIBE) WHOSE FAT REMA UNCERTA. THOUGH SOME OF THE PRISON SCEN WERE FILMED AT PARAMOUNT STUDS LOS ANGEL, MUCH OF THE MOVIE WAS MA AT THE PRISON, WHICH HAD BEEN ABANDONED AFTER S CLOSG. THE FILMMAKERS’ $500,000 REFURBISHMENT OF THE PRISON STOOD THE BUILDGS GOOD STEAD WHEN PUBLIC VISS TO ALTRAZ WERE FIRST PERMTED OCTOBER 1973. THE PRISON IS NOW ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR TOURIST ATTRACTNS. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. ‘PACIFIC HEIGHTS’ (1990) - AME - JOHN SCHLGER’S PSYCHOLOGIL THRILLER – WHICH STARS MELANIE GRIFFH, MICHAEL KEATON AND MATTHEW MODE – UNFOLDS THE EPONYMO NEIGHBORHOOD, SAN FRANCIS’S MOST EXCLIVE AND ONE OF THE RICHT THE UNTRY. (IT IS FAMO FOR S MIX OF VICTORIAN, EDWARDIAN AND MISSN REVIVAL HO.) HOWEVER, THE POLYCHROME HOE ED THE FILM IS ON THE RNER OF 19TH AND TEXAS STREETS POTRERO HILL. ‘SISTER ACT 2: BACK THE HAB’ (1993) - AME - STARRG WHOOPI GOLDBERG, THE SEQUEL TO THE HIGHLY SUCCSFUL SISTER ACT (1992) WAS A STEPPG STONE FOR LRYN HILL, JENNIFER LOVE HEWT AND KATHY NAJIMY. FILMG LOTNS CLU THE BANK OF AMERI BUILDG AT 555 CALIFORNIA STREET AND THE CY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCIS. ‘THE CONVERSATN’ (1974) - AME - FILMED BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA BETWEEN THE FIRST TWO GODFATHER MOVI, THE CONVERSATN STARS GENE HACKMAN AS SURVEILLANCE EXPERT HARRY CL, WHO BE CREASGLY PARANOID AS HE GETS ENMHED A MURR SE; THE MOVIE WAS FLUENCED BY MICHELANGELO ANTONNI’S BLOW-UP (1966) AND THE WATERGATE CRISIS. SCEN WERE SHOT UNN SQUARE DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCIS, HAY VALLEY (WHERE CL LIV), POTRERO HILL, POLK GULCH, THE HAIGHT, THE FANCIAL DISTRICT, SOMA, COW HOLLOW, PACIFIC HEIGHTS AND THE WTERN ADDN. ‘SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURRER’ (1993) - AME - VIEWERS OF THE MIKE MYERS EDY SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURRER WILL GET GLIMPS OF EVERY PART OF SAN FRANCIS. LOTNS CLU THE PALACE OF FE ARTS, CO TOWER, THE FOG CY DER AND THE SAN FRANCIS WAR MEMORIAL. ‘BASIC INSTCT’ (1992) - AME - UNHIBED CRIME NOVELIST CATHERE TRAMELL (SHARON STONE) PLAYS T AND MOE WH DISSOLUTE HOMICI P NICK CURRAN (MICHAEL DOUGLAS) PL VERHOEVEN’S PROVOTIVE SEX THRILLER. TRAMELL’S MANSN IS PACIFIC HEIGHTS AND OTHER LOTNS ED THE MOVIE CLU TELEGRAPH HILL, ROHNERT PARK, THE EMBARRO ROADWAY AND THE TOS CAFé NORTH BEACH. THE OLD POLICE PRECCT WHERE CATHERE IS TERROGATED WAS AT 850 BRYANT STREET BY THE HALL OF JTICE SOMA. STREETS THAT FEATURE THE R CHASE (FLUENCED BY THE ONE BULLT) CLUD FRNO, KEARNY AND DUNN ALLEY. THE ST AND CREW ALSO WENT FURTHER AFIELD CALIFORNIA, TO CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA (FOR CATHERE’S BEACH HOE) AND PETALUMA. ‘MRS DOUBTFIRE’ (1993) - AME - ONE OF ROB WILLIAMS’S MOST ACCLAIMED FILMS, MRS DOUBTFIRE STARS HIM AS A NEWLY DIVORCED ACTOR WHO POS AS A HOEKEEPER SO HE N SPEND TIME WH HIS OWN CHILDREN. THE HOE THE FILM IS AT 2640 STEER STREET PACIFIC HEIGHTS, AND IS STILL VISED BY MANY PEOPLE. WHEN WILLIAMS MTED SUICI 2014, FANS BROUGHT FLOWERS AND TRKETS THERE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO HIM. ‘BEDAZZLED’ (2000) - AME - A DISAPPOTMENT TO SOME BUT A GOOFY CLASSIC TO OTHERS, THIS REMAKE OF THE 1967 BRISH EDY, STARRG BRENDAN FRASER AND ELIZABETH HURLEY, SHOWS OFF MANY FAMO SAN FRANCIS SIGHTS. THEY CLU THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE, WASHGTON SQUARE, THE VAILLANURT FOUNTA, CY HALL AND THE PALACE OF FE ARTS. ‘THE WEDDG PLANNER’ (2001) - AME - A WELL-LIKED ROM, THE WEDDG PLANNER FEATUR MANY PICTURQUE SAN FRANCIS LOTNS. THEY CLU CY HALL (WHERE THE JENNIFER LOPEZ AND JT CHAMBERS CHARACTERS GO TO GET MARRIED) AND GOLN GATE PARK (WHERE THEY DANCE). ONE OF THE MOST FAMO SCEN TAK PLACE AT TAYLOR AND SACRAMENTO STREETS, WHERE MATTHEW MCCONGHEY’S CHARACTER STEPS TO SAVE LOPEZ WHEN SHE’S ABOUT TO BE CSHED BY A ROLLG DUMPSTER. ‘THE PRCS DIARI’ (2001) - AME - WHAT MANY PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE PRCS DIARI IS THAT THE HOE MIA THERMOPOLIS (ANNE HATHAWAY) LIV ISN’T ONE OF SAN FRANCIS’S PRTIG NEIGHBORHOODS; ’S ACTUALLY A FORMER FIREHOE AT BRAZIL AND ATHENS STREETS THE EXCELSR DISTRICT. OTHER FILMG LOTNS CLU ANTHONY R GROVE HIGH SCHOOL ON LYON STREET THE UPSLE MARA DISTRICT AND PHOENIX TERRACE OFF PACIFIC AVENUE NEAR NOB HILL. ‘THE SWEETT THG’ (2002) - AME - CAMERON DIAZ, CHRISTA APPLEGATE AND SELMA BLAIR TAKE DIENC THROUGH THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF SAN FRANCIS DATG THE SWEETT THG. SCEN WERE FILMED AT THE PALACE OF FE ARTS, NEW GRANT AVENUE CLEANERS ON VALLEJO STREET AND NORTH BEACH, TO NAME JT A FEW OF THE LOTNS. ‘THE JOY LUCK CLUB’ (1993) - AME - BERNAL HEIGHTS, PORTRERO HILL, CHATOWN AND RSIAN HILL WERE AMONG THE SAN FRANCIS LOTNS OF WAYNE WANG’S ADAPTATN OF AMY TAN’S NOVEL ABOUT THE EXPERIENC OF FOUR MAHJONG-PLAYG CHE IMMIGRANT WOMEN AND THEIR DGHTERS. SOME OF THE CHE SCEN WERE SHOT OUTSI THE CY RICHMOND, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY AND WOODSI, SAN MATEO COUNTY. THE GOLN GATE NATNAL RECREATN AREA MAR COUNTY WAS ANOTHER OF THE FILM’S LOTNS. ‘THE PURSU OF HAPPYNS’ (2006) - AME - IN THIS ADAPTATN OF ENTREPRENR CHRIS GARDNER’S MEMOIR, WILL SMH AND HIS SON JAN PLAY A FATHER AND SON STGGLG TO SURVIVE AS THEY’RE BOUNCED AROUND DIFFERENT SAN FRANCIS SHELTERS. LOTNS CLU GLEN PARK STATN, GOLN GATE PARK, ROSS ALLEY CHATOWN, TAYLOR STREET RSIAN HILL AND PE STREET THE FANCIAL DISTRICT. ‘MILK’ (2008) - AME - IN G VAN SANT’S MILK, SEAN PENN PLAYS THE SAN FRANCIS GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND POLICIAN HARVEY MILK (ORIGALLY A NEW YORKER). MUCH OF THE FILMG TOOK PLACE THE CASTRO DISTRICT. CY HALL ALSO FEATUR THE MOVIE. ‘LA MISSN’ (2009) - AME - LA MISSN TELLS THE STORY OF AN EX-N, PLAYED BY SAN FRANCIS-BORN BENJAM BRATT, WHO FDS OUT THAT HIS SON IS GAY. THE FILM SHOWS ONE OF THE MOST BETIFUL NEIGHBORHOODS SAN FRANCIS – THE MISSN. ‘SAN ANDREAS’ (2015) - AME - SAN ANDREAS TAK VIEWERS ON A CGI-BOOSTED, ACTN-PACKED RI OM LOS ANGEL TO SAN FRANCIS AFTER A MAGNU 9.0 EARTHQUAKE SHAK UP CALIFORNIA. THE MOST REALISTIC AND TERRIFYG SCENE TAK PLACE ON THE GOLN GATE BRIDGE AS ’S ENGULFED BY WATER. GRAHAM FULLER NTRIBUTED ADDNAL REPORTG TO THIS ARTICLE. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

‘Milk’ (2008) - ame - In G Van Sant’s Milk, Sean Penn plays the San Francis gay-rights activist and polician Harvey Milk (origally a New Yorker).

‘La Missn’ (2009) - ame - La Missn tells the story of an ex-n, played by San Francis-born Benjam Bratt, who fds out that his son is gay. This satiril web seri tak a no-filter look at the ntemporary gay scene as follows the liv and lov of six multi-ethnic gay men.

THE GAY HBANDS OF SAN FRANCIS

He wrote, produced, and directed the satiril web seri The Gay Hbands of San Francis which is streamg on Comst, Pluto, Oasis TV, and YouTube. -based profsnal league to e out as gay.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

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.

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

As the cy beme heavily populated wh young men lookg to strike gold out Wt, homosexualy beme more mon. In 1908, The Dash beme the first openly gay bar San Francis wh cross-drsg waers. Durg World War 1, the US Navy began dischargg known homosexual and black soldiers port ci, known as the “blue discharge” practice.

Th began the evolutn of San Francis’s large muny of gay men. 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. However, while alhol had bee legal, homosexualy remaed illegal.

SAN FRANCIS GAY SNAS

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.