From the archive, 25 June 1977: The Bay go gay | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY SAN FRANCIS (1970)
• GAY SAN FRANCIS
• LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
• GAY ICS LLECTN
• FROM THE ARCHIVE, 25 JUNE 1977: THE BAY GO GAY

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. gay-san-ancis-1970. lifornialightandsound, 1880-1889, Amatr films--California--San Francis, Archiv--California--San Francis--History, Gay muny, Gay liberatn movement--California--San Francis, Gay men, Gay men--California--Polil activy, Documentary, Personal/pennt works, San Francis (Calif.

Dcriptn: Gay San Francis by Jonathan Raymond, is a prevly lost documentary pictg queer life San Francis five s ago. 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. Scen om gay bars are tercut wh fascatg terviews featurg gay men, lbians, and trans women discsg issu om harassment to sex to job secury.

The film also clus a not-to-be missed Halloween drag show at On The Levee, one of SF's many historic gay bars that closed their doors long ago. Ma s before the legalizatn of gay marriage, before the legalizatn of homosexualy and before the AIDS crisis, this film shows a much more lighthearted, bohemian and unrground gay scene which is now only a memory.

GAY SAN FRANCIS

It is difficult to terme to what gree this film was ma to document the gay scene of the late 1960s an unbiased manner and to what gree was meant to mock or mean s nizens. 01-the-gay-faln-1941. 01 The Gay Faln (1941) download.

01 The Gay Faln (1941). Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Historil Society, San Francis, CA.

LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976

$194, 860 to arrange, scribe, prerve, and make public some 767 lear feet of materials nstutg 99 archival or mancript llectns relatg to efforts to obta regnn and subsequently to tablish rights for gay and lbian Amerins the 20th century.

Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Historil Society.

GAY ICS LLECTN

Openg s Goln Gate to a world of diverse culture, viewpots, and sexual 'I'm so glad I did this': Comg out, growg up at San Francis PriWe've been diggg through our archiv and found an amazg seri to give you a glimpse of gay life here late 1976. It portrays San Francis as the gayt cy the untry. Though the seri foc only gay men, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people were also fightg their own battl for public acceptance.

FROM THE ARCHIVE, 25 JUNE 1977: THE BAY GO GAY

"BAY GAYS" was shockg for s time and is stunng still today for how many of the issu still the vio above for the ABC7 special reports prented as they aired the text om the special reports below:The Queen Cy: San Francis 1977Durg the past six months or so, several of here at Channel 7 have been focg our attentn on the homosexual muny of the Bay Area pecially San Francis, wh the hope of prentg for you a report that would shed some light on the darkns of the gay scene and generally show that people of homosexual persuasn are no different except their sexual preference. San Francis the Queen Cy of the Wt known to many for the Goln Gate Bridge and the ble rs known to far fewer as a haven for homosexuals.

You n look around the cy's many districts and be sure that gays, as many homosexuals prefer to ll themselv, are part of the scene.