It was a time before the rabow flag, before the Whe Night rts and before HIV and AIDS vastated a muny. This ABC7 special report, shown s entirety, giv a glimpse to what gay life was like San Francis 1976.
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GAY SAN FRANCIS
The bt gay bars, dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas and gay cise clubs San Francis. * san francisco gay life *
The Castro, an endurg symbol of LGBTQ+ history, stands as Ameri's pneerg gayborhood and headquarters of the gay liberatn movement post-Stonewall. Prented by GayCi.
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"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.
LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
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. 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. Otherwise for gays om D Mo or Duluth, a sort of heaven on earth.
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.