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Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
• GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS
• ‘FAIRYLAND’ LOOKS BACK AT GAY LIFE SAN FRANCIS AND THE AIDS CRISIS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHG
• MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE

THE BT GAY BARS 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. 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.

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

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LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976

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. 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. 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.

"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.

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. 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.

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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. 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.

Society general would be the fact that we sleep together, " said San Francis rint Stan datg and meetg aspects of the gay world probably are more closely proscribe and more highly rualized than those of straight society.

Other men were siarly cled o fd safe and nducive atmosphere for unhibed sensualy, and the expectatn that even if your fantasy is not fulfilled, somethg will whole experience is vted wh a dark sense of adventure that even the owner of a gay bar nnot expla do provi a safe alternative variety. Of much greater importance to the homosexual is affiliatn that is beg wh someone of the same sex and affectn the ia of mutual exprsn of love between two people.

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

"But I thk most gay people do not believe the stutn of marriage except as an encumberg thg bee we have a view that our relatnship has a very much more voluntary qualy to them. In that sense I've always thought that we have a lot to teach the non-gay muny about relatnships bee we have to really want to stay together, to stay together. Make the assumptn that bee we've been a uple for twenty seventeen years that that's some sort of x of the relatnship for so long gay people have been told that you n't stay together for any perd of time and mata a stable relatnship as a rult of that a lot of people that you meet, ask how long you've been together and you say X number of years as if that were some magic x to the qualy of the relatnship and I thk that says really very ltle about whether you have a good relatnship.

The germatn of the gay clothg bs was right here, The Town Squire is the iron mag of the homosexual high-fashn world and started 16 years ago by a gay uple Augt Terro and Terry Popek, who still keep at the top of the fashn heap, and what's the reason for gays tert this?

But most important was that the people livg the area had no objectn, when some gay people started to move and started to make a healthy climate enomilly and socially. It works, " said 've seen how the San Francis gay muny works wh s own stcture of goods and servic that n exist pennt of the potential hostily of the straight world around . I thk that when people n rce their homophobia their fear of homosexualy when they regnize that there are aspects of themselv that are homosexual that they will be able to accept this more, " said that's our look at bay gays, the late fall of 1976, San Francis.

‘FAIRYLAND’ LOOKS BACK AT GAY LIFE SAN FRANCIS AND THE AIDS CRISIS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHG

It was our judgment though shared by people om female gay groups that the problems and liftyl of lbians are sufficiently different om those of gay male to be separately nsired. The cy’s gay bars feature large, outdoor celebratns (not unlike a gay pri para) that attract people of all strip that wish to be entertaed by a group of eclectic and unique sgers and dancers.

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MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE

From 1942 to 1943, ary patrols known as the San Francis Moral Drive targeted and raid the gay bars of San Francis, claimg to be protectg servicemen om homosexuals. However, by the end of the 1940s, the gay bar scene was growg and queer bars beme not only a safe space for gay and lbian people, but also a statn for visors to the cy, who watched performanc and mgled wh the lols.

Many beat poets, cludg those who were openly gay such as Allen Gsberg, me to San Francis due to the more permissive environment and aligned themselv wh LGBTQ+ groups. The Dghters of Bilis, found 1955, was the first lbian-centred anisatn the USA, while the Mattache Society, one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the USA, beme headquartered San Francis 1956. It has bright neon rabow lights, vtage furnure, and huge wdows which display all the fun si, a tribute to beg the first gay bar to not have blackout wdows San Francis.