New Year's Eve Jan. 1 1965: A Night for Gay Rights - FoundSF

Contents:

• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• HOW MILARY HISTORY WAS CENTRAL TO SAN FRANCIS BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• SF GAY MEN'S CHOS 'HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD' 2023: SAN FRANCIS
• SF GAY MEN’S CHOS ‘CONVERT YOUR CHILDREN’ SONG
• HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977
• RADILLY GAY
• GAY RIGHTS

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

Cred: JwhartonIn the book, The Life and Tim of Harvey Milk: The Mayor of Castro Street, thor Randy Shilts discs how, even wh the exemptn placed on gay men servg their untry as part of the draft, tens of thoands of homosexual men were still able to get through vettg procs:“The Send World War marked the first nflict which the armed servic tried to systematilly intify and then exclu homosexuals. ”When gay soldiers operatg the South Pacific were found out to be homosexual, like the fate scribed by Shilts, those men had to be procsed out of theatre, returned to maland Ameri and then be “blue discharged” to society.

HOW MILARY HISTORY WAS CENTRAL TO SAN FRANCIS BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF THE WORLD

”While Shilts’ scriptn of life for gay Amerin soldiers the early 1940s, “purged” om service while fightg some of the most feroc battl of the 20th Century, pats a bleak picture, also provis a glimmer of fiance the face of the stutnalised homophobia they fell victim those “blue discharged” veterans returned home, stead of beg held up as hero like their straight unterparts, or like fellow gay GIs that had remaed untected, they were shunned om any public favour, and so they formed their own muny the place their profsnal livelihoods had e to an end: San drafte found themselv fightg the South Pacific after beg shipped to theatre om San Francis (image om ‘The Thompson Submache Gun’ by Mart Pegler © Osprey Publishg, part of Bloomsbury Publishg)This chapter of ary history is also creded wh beg rponsible for the creatn of the regnisable morn-day gay plac homosexual men had had to meet prr to the war, and therefore before the mass outg thanks to wi-sle nscriptn, had always been clanste, backstreet speakeasi where nobody gave their real name for fear of unrver police that the men had been stamped wh a pal H on their blue discharge papers - documents that would be seen by everybody om potential employers, to bank tellers and doctors as they attempted to rve out new liv for themselv - everybody San Francis soon knew who and what the men were.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Bee of that, there was no pot gog unrground wh regards to any gay scene shame had lerally been taken away, out of their own hands, and as a rult of ths, the gay bar as we know today was cy of San Francis and s gay and lbian history has many more important chapters to s name, and as the years progrsed om the end of World War Two the ary beme ls and ls central to s story and eventual cementg as the gay pal of the the 1950s, Beat culture emerged across the Stat which was by and large an act of fiance the face of middle-class Amerinism, somethg the gay muny uld easily align the 1970s, Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay polician Californian history before his untimely assassatn 1978.

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

Cred: JwhartonIt should also be noted that San Francis had an LGBT past before the outbreak of WWII and the buildg of the Hunters Pot Naval Shipyard; the culturally signifint lbian bar, Mona’s, the 1930’s and even durg the Goldsh years of the late 19th century, drawgs and etchgs have been disvered pictg men-only danc and unrground terms of transformg the cy to the gay muny’s global base – as is today - the flux of tens of thoands of gay men durg the war years, and the nscriptn of 16 ln Amerin men to them, was US Milary ntued to outlaw LGBT people om s ranks until Francis is now home to approximately a quarter of a ln LGBT people, and lns more vis every Life and Tim of Harvey Milk, by Randy Shilts, was published 1982 by Atlantic Books and is available on Amazon. E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.

) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy.

SF GAY MEN'S CHOS 'HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD' 2023: SAN FRANCIS

Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power. In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons. In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women.

In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act. In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly. Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons.

This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat. At the lol and natnal levels, the number of openly gay policians creased dramatilly durg the 1990s and 2000s, and 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir beme prime mister of Iceland, which ma her the world’s first openly gay head of ernment. In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, openly gay policians have had only limed succs wng office; notable electns to natnal legislatur clud Patria Jiménez Flor Mexi (1997), Mike Waters South Ai (1999), and Clodovil Hernans Brazil (2006).

SF GAY MEN’S CHOS ‘CONVERT YOUR CHILDREN’ SONG

Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage). Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary.

HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977

Romburg outled some of the formal and rmal mpaigns agast racially discrimatory practic gay bars over time—cludg muny rponse to hirg discrimatn, selective intifitn checkg practic, the sale of racist paraphernalia, and more.

RADILLY GAY

Gay bars like Bradley's and Blue Jacket San Diego's Gaslamp District attracted so many people that the cy was featured the 1952 book USA Confintial about Ameri's "s spots", while clubs like the Seven Seas and Jack's Steam acted as a cisg ground for gay men.

"Hillcrt is affectnately known as San Diego's "gayborhood" (Cred: Dana Delimont/Alamy)Nowadays, the hub of the cy's LGBTQ+ muny is Hillcrt, where a rabow-l sign and rabow flags flappg over die book shops, f and vtage clothg shops remd visors why the area is dubbed San Diego's "gayborhood".

When the sun dips down behd the horizon, you n follow the mic along Universy Avenue to dance the night away at Rich's, Hillcrt's most popular gay nightclub, which has been featured on shows like the Real Hoewiv of Beverly Hills.

GAY RIGHTS

Then, a few shops away, stop by HUMANITY!, a novelty shop where you n fd the perfect pair of Speedos, though those preferrg to swim their birthday su should h Black's Beach, a clothg-optnal beach that's a popular hangout for the gay muny.