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• DOORS TO BAY AREA GAY SEX VENU SWG OPEN
• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

DOORS TO BAY AREA GAY SEX VENU SWG OPEN

In a history wrten 2017 about the foundg of the South Bay Queer and Asian, Roger Chow remembers meetg Do Ago the fall of 1991 to discs the need for a gay Asian support group the South Bay. Acrdg to Roger, they were the first gay Asian group the South Bay.

Their name changed over time, first beg the “AACI group, ” then the Asian, Lbian, Bisexual and Gay Alliance, or ALBGA, then fally takg the name of South Bay Queer and Asian, or sbQA, right before the Gay Pri Para June, 1994. They went to see movi: “The Cryg Game” and “My Betiful Lnrette” as well as attend the Asian Amerin Film Ftival and the Lbian Gay Film Ftival San Francis. They saw “Priscilla, Queen of the Dert, ” marched the Gay Pri paras San Francis and then San Jose, walked the Santa Clara County AIDS Walk, learned about safe sex and HIV, and had members who served on the Santa Clara County Commissn on HIV/AIDS.

The send time the issue arose was cid that sce there were many groups for the “majory muny” and only a few distctively for gay Asians, they wanted their “rap” meetgs closed. In an Augt 2020 nversatn wh Ed Tang, who joed the group 2005, and terim print Kyle Matsumoto-Burch, they talked about the more prsg issu for gay Asians, many which revolve around immigratn and the threat of beg ported. There is this piece of you that might be okay wh yourself beg gay and maybe you’re livg the life now, but eventually you’ll have to go back and nform to how is back home.

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THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS

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