Some of the most divisive ntts shapg the qut for marriage equaly occurred not on the culture-war ont l but wh the ranks of LGBTQ advot. Nathaniel Frank tells the dramatic story of how an ia that once seemed unfathomable -- and for many gays and lbians unsirable -- beme a legal and moral right jt half a century.
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Nathaniel Frank tells the dramatic story of how an ia that once seemed unfathomable—and for many gays and lbians unsirable—beme a legal and moral right jt half a century. Awakeng begs the 1950s, when lns of gays and lbians were aaid to e out, let alone fight for equaly.
Across the social upheavals of the next two s, a gay rights movement emerged wh the risg awarens of the equal digny of same-sex love. All the while, they had to fight agast vilent antigay opponents and pture the Amerin center by spreadg the simple msage that love is love, ultimately propellg the LGBTQ muny—and Ameri—immeasurably closer to jtice.
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“They are maly important for their documentatn of San Francis’s gay muny and for recent shots of San Francis which the library llectns lack.
Major topics clu San Francis’s gay muny: home life, leather muny South of Market and Castro Street, gay paras, Leonard Matlovich race for supervisor and portras, Closet Ball 1979, The Balny Rtrant and Bar on Market Street near Castro, Milk-Mosne assassatn by Dan Whe, Women’s Buildg before renovatn.
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Sacramento gay muny: ‘Gay Day’ 1979. As the Bay Area Reporter noted a recent article, Matlovich beme an overnight media sensatn when a photo of him uniform appeared on the ver of Time magaze September 1975 unrneath the headle “I Am A Homosexual” at a time when most LGBT people feared to e out of the closet.
Also disvered wh the photos, some of which show leathermen full regalia givg each other “the look” si long-gone bars, prumably South of Market, were “ephemeral ems related to the gay muny. Among the ephemera available to view onle are an envelope for ntributg to the 1979 Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, mpaign materials agast the 1978 Briggs iative (which would have banned LGBTQ people and their supporters om teachg public schools California), a flyer for an all-ag lbian piic potluck at Goln Gate Park on Saturday, June 25, 1977, and a flyer om Lbians and Gay Men Agast the Death Penalty proclaimg “Dan Whe Gets Special Treatment” and advertisg an 8 p. Of urse, that prott on the night of May 21, 1979, beme known as the Whe Night rts, followg the lenient sentencg of Whe, who was nvicted of the 1978 killgs of gay supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.
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It noted that his film provid “a rare and need reflectn upon the awakeng gay movement San Francis sce the early 1970s” and that numero PBS statns aired rponse to the LGBTQ muny’s outrage at a ntroversial 1986 Frontle episo about AIDS. The Altman llectn ntas 77 black and whe prts of the Pri paras (lled the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Para 1979 and 1980, and subsequently the San Francis Internatnal Lbian and Gay Freedom Day Para) om 1979 to 1985.
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The Gay Lato Alliance marched the June 1979 San Francis Pri para. In the pictur, one n see ntgents om what was then lled the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club (now the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club); the San Francis Gay Freedom Day Marchg and Twirlg Corps (the cy’s official band now known as the San Francis Lbian/Gay Freedom Band); the Goln Gate Bs Associatn; Dyk on Bik; Congregatn Sha’ar Zahav synagogue; and manifold shuttered—yet storied—bathho and bars such as the Boot Rack, The Watergarn San Jose, Bulldog Baths, Club Baths, the I-Beam, and the Troro Transfer south of Market. “It’s very tertg—three gay photographers the Bay Area the 1970s and 1980s, ” Bersch add.
“You’re gay.
*Cue the ternal gay panic*. There were other characters I had csh on before that (only realized they were csh years after the fact), but you gotta go wh the girl that ma you gay. Of urse he knew there were issu; that much of the Commonwealth homosexualy is still crimalised, thanks to the Brish empire exportg dranian homophobic laws to the loni the 19th century.