The Gay Traveler’s Gui To San Francis - Gayety

Contents:

• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• VIDEO: THE SAN FRANCIS GAY SCENE THE 1980S
• SAN FRANCIS GAY AND LBIAN SCENE
• SF GAY HISTORY
• IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY
• LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
• GAY SAN FRANCIS: LOST FILM, 1965-1970
• 5 HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BARS WE WISH STILL EXISTED
• SF'S FIRST BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR OFFERED REFUGE OM RACISM THE '90S QUEER SCENE
• 8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN
• SAN FRANCIS GAY CISE CLUBS

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

It’s fair to say that while San Francis was beg a bean of hope for gay men and women around the world – the policy of the Uned Stat ernment and s treatment of LGBT cizens (particularly the stigma surroundg the HIV/AIDS crisis) was everythg but supportive and welg to the muny. The Stonewall Rts of 1969, while geographilly distant, voked a surge anizatns for the gay muny. In the subsequent years – bars, galleri, cultural tablishments and social and cultural bonds were cemented to make San Franciso one of the homosexual epicenters of the world.

As the first openly gay man to be elected to public office the state of California – his robt, hands-on mpaigng lead to him beg, spe an ially osty receptn, wily accepted by the public.

The gay history of San Francis is embedd to s history still prent both physilly and atmospherilly and enjoyed by s LGBT rints and all those who choose to vis. Willows Inn – a gay owned bed and breakfast the Castro neighborhood of San Francis.

THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

Misterb&b is not a hotel or cha, but rather a bookg platform for rooms, apartments and hom and allows you to book om gay and gay-iendly hosts around the world.

Unrstandg the gay scene is much more easily done wh the help of a lol and home-sharg is one of the bt ways to meet someone livg the cy who knows how thgs work, where and when are the bt nights to go out, and what plac to eat at and which to avoid. Near Baker Beach is Marshall’s Beach which is also popular for gay and nu sunbathers. San Francis is nsired an Amerin gay mec and at s heart beats the Castro District, one of the first gay neighborhoods.

VIDEO: THE SAN FRANCIS GAY SCENE THE 1980S

Hi Tops – this gay sports bar the Castro is a great spot to throwback drks while supportg your team. Oasis – this venue by Drag legends D'Arcy Drollger and Hekla prents drag shows, baret and theater productns to a mixed gay/lbian crowd SoMa.

The Stud – a rnerstone the San Francis gay bar scene, this dive-ish bar SoMa has been around the block. Eros – a gay, two-story sna the Castro wh steam, sna, showers, lockers, bunk beds and play areas.

San Francis Pri – this gay pri event started back 1970 and today is the largt gatherg of the queer muny and s alli natnwi. The event, held annually durg the last full weekend of June, has more than 200 para ntgents and exhibors and over twenty muny-n stag and venu like Homo Hip Hop to Gray Pri. The 40th Annual San Francis Gay Pri Para where the theme was “Forty and Fabulo” San Francis, Calif.

SAN FRANCIS GAY AND LBIAN SCENE

Lnched to fame the early 1970s and fluential electg Harvey Milk, the first openly gay official the cy, the Castro is fully open about s herage. In flamboyant acts of ristance and excs, the nightlife muny rpond to the vastatg AIDS crisis and tense natnal homophobia by beg even more visible, lorful, outspoken and Uran at the EndUp was ground zero for genr-provotn and wild fabulons San Francis's early 1990s. The Sister were ever-prent on the nightlife scene durg the height of the AIDS epimic among gay men San Francis, risg money and handg our safe-sex survival ks.

In flamboyant acts of ristance and excs, the nightlife muny rpond to the vastatn of the AIDS crisis and tense natnal homophobia that followed by beg even more visible, lorful, outspoken, and outrageo. Melissa HawksAs the nightlife photographer for the San Francis Sentel, a lol gay newspaper, Hawks was there to document all.

My iends who knew about the pictur were such an impet, they enuraged me to put on a show and let people see this really important time gay San Francis history. But the young people were celebratg beg gay and livg San Francis — they didn't re, was a posive thg.

SF GAY HISTORY

Plenty of sunshe and a iendly, welg vibe make San Francis an extremely appealg lotn for gay and lbian people to settle, enjoy a vatn or pass through on a road trip around California. In fact, was right here the cy where the 'Gay Gam' began 1982 and this huge sportg event is now hosted by ci all over the world, beg staged every four years. Held annually towards the end of June, this gay pri celebratn has s origs as long ago as the begng of the 1970s, wh prent-day attendance figur now toppg one ln people.

The cy's excg annual gay and lbian themed untry-wtern dance weekend ually tak place sometime between mid-October and the early part of November.

For generatns, gay people met each other furtively at hookup spots: parks, the piers, and other….

IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY

Ken Jon (November 9, 1950 – January 13, 2021), a Black gay rights activist who fought agast the segregatn of LGBTQ activism and spac, lost…. The Bay Area Reporter, which is both San Francis and Ameri’s longt ntuoly-published and hight circulatn LGBTQ newspaper, has always been SF Gay History’s preement….

The flamboyant electronic sound of San Francis’s dancefloors soundtracked gay liberatn the '70s and '80s, even as s muny faced cimatn as a rult of the the AIDS crisis.

LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976

Marke Bichke tak a ep dive to the efforts beg ma to prerve ephemera of the cy's pneerg scene, and speaks to the San Francis Dis Prervatn Society, Dark Entri' Josh Cheon and milogist Louis Neibur about his prehensive new book, Menergy: San Francis’s Gay Dis Sound. 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. Though the seri foc only gay men, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people were also fightg their own battl for public acceptance.

GAY SAN FRANCIS: LOST FILM, 1965-1970

"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.

But when work is through one hundreds gather here what many are nvced as the largt and most signifint gay ghetto the Uned Stat if not the entire world.

5 HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BARS WE WISH STILL EXISTED

Castro village the name given for roughly 20 square blocks of quat jobs vaguely Victorian stctur cut to livg quarters and more than 15 gay bars. Walk down the street this crossroad the gay muny and you're likely to meet your neighbor, your doctor, the guy who fixed your televisn set, or perhaps your boss.

Mart Stoll, a former State Department official and now one of the most rpected lears of the San Francis gay muny, "I thk San Francis is attractive to all people who are particularly those mori and that this has always been known as a place that uld accept people wh different liftyl and certaly the gay liftyle is a different liftyle. Gays are tolerated San Francis that very likely explas why more and more homosexuals are gog public or as they prefer to put g out of the closet.

SF'S FIRST BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR OFFERED REFUGE OM RACISM THE '90S QUEER SCENE

You start out by g out to yourself and fdg out that you are gay and then you beg to do somethg about and e out to those few other people wh whom 's absolutely necsary.

8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN

Specifilly the people wh whom you go to bed, and then gradually you build up a support group of iends who are gay and tell them and then you beg to tell your iends that aren't gay, and then 's a gradual ongog thg until fally everybody your life knows that you're gay, and you disver you're out there the world and that hasn't all fallen apart bee everybody knows who you are.

While thoands of gays don't md beg seen activi like the Gay Freedom Day Para or the annual police vers gay softball game San Francis, there are at least as many others who say they n't afford to be publicly intified. They take part only on the g of the gay subculture, admtg their sexual preferenc only to the very close gay iends. Gays have created their own private tablishment held together om the si wh prsure om the outsi.

SAN FRANCIS GAY CISE CLUBS

More than 150 gay bars terg to every sexual persuasn at least 13 gay bathho where a sex is simply a slip of the towel away marriag where there is no father to give away the bri and sexual San Francis.