‎Gay San Francis (1970) directed by Jonathan Raymond • Reviews, film + st • Letterboxd

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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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GAY SAN FRANCIS: LOST FILM, 1965-1970

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As the documentary rells, the Gay Film Ftival of Super-8 Films, showed the movi on a screen ma om a bed Framele founr Marc Hutis (right) ont of the Castro theatre the 1970s. In 1922, San Francis’s Nasser fay opened the Castro Theatre: an event that me to fe an era and what would bee a gay neighborhood. From gay rights in Harvey Milk’s electn – and vastatg assasatn – through to last year’s regnn of the cy’s gay and leather cultural district, San Fran has always been a vibrant LGBTQ+ haven.

On December 1, the Tenrlo Mm will screen a piece of redisvered history: Gay San Francis by Jonathan Raymond, 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.

GAY SAN FRANCIS

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 ’s doors long ago.

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‎Gay San Francis (1970) directed by Jonathan Raymond • Reviews, film + st • Letterboxd.

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