1977: The year of dis and the first Gay Softball World Seri - Outsports

Contents:

• “TAL OF THE CY” REVISS GAY SAN FRANCIS’S PAST
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976
• LGBT SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI BUTS THE ERA OF DIS
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

“TAL OF THE CY” REVISS GAY SAN FRANCIS’S PAST

2 Seasons | 18 Episos | TV-MAWATCH NOWHBO MaxMeet Patrick, Agt and Dom: three 30-somethg iends livg San Francis explorg the excg, sometim overwhelmg, optns available to a new generatn of gay men. 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. In the first episo of Lookg, —HBO’s lovely new seri about a group of gay men livg San Francis created by Michael Lannan and directed by Weekend’s Andrew Haigh—Patrick (Jonathan Groff), a vio game signer, fds himself on a first date wh an onlogist who never plays vio gam.

Here we are, simultaneoly pletely faiar and unfaiar terrory: the bad first date that is, also, the bad, gay first date—and a bad, gay first date that is not the B storyle, will not be followed by scen starrg straight people, and do not feature stereotypilly mpy gay men. It’s 2014 and there have been—as Ey Nsbm observed her glowg review for The New Yorker—a number of shows by gay men, but none as lmly, sularly gay as Lookg, which ntas ls than five (small) speakg parts for straight people.

Lookg featur three gay men who are, as the tle suggts, searchg: for partners, for reers, and, mostly, for themselv. “Armistead has said that 1976, he was wrg om the perspective of a whe man a pretty whe world — a bary gay, lbian, straight world.

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

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. San Francis – home of the untry's first openly gay elected official (Harvey Milk), birthplace of the rabow flag, the first cy the Uned Stat to legalize gay marriage and host of the bt damn Pri para  the untry—remas a major LGBTQ+ epicenter.

So whether you're here June or not, honor SF's storied gay history at the mms, bars and cultural landmarks.

LOOKBACK: WHAT GAY LIFE WAS LIKE SAN FRANCIS 1976

Lol San Francis news statn KTVU aired a short behd-the-scen segment on the highly anticipated new HBO seri, "Lookg, " which follows gay iends tryg to fd love the "Cy by the Bay. When asked about a televisn seri set San Francis pictg the liv of morn day gay men, an onlooker rpond, "I thk 's past 's time. "Even though San Francis is heavily tertwed wh gay history, the liv of gay men the cy are rarely explored on film or televisn asi om the ocsnal projects like "Tal of the Cy, " "Milk, " or this year's film ftival h, "Tt.

The San Francis Gay Men's Chos was the guidg force behd the Artists Portal, and their performanc—ongog for more than 40 years—are well worth checkg out.

LGBT SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI BUTS THE ERA OF DIS

If you love drag, check out one of the performanc at Oasis, a gay bathhoe turned nightclub, and show venue, found 2015 by lol drag stars Hekla and D'arcy Drollger. One of the untry's first gay bars, Tw Peaks Tavern is a favore of seasoned lol gays, cludg S. Gay Mens' Chos artistic director Tim Seelig, part thanks to s large plate glass wdows and people watchg.

's sole gay sports bar ( also has a siblg Wt Hollywood) and featur a tasty pub gb menu and, on Thursdays, go-go boys. And although Polk Street ed to be a buzzg gay strip, s sole remag waterg hole is The Cch Saloon, where you n take a taste of a bygone era, pl an episo of "Drag Race" or sports game on the monors. The first "passnate" kiss between two male characters on TV didn't happen until the year 2000, on "Dawson's Creek, " and even when TV shows had characters who were gay or transgenr, they were seldom more than supportg characters.

Ryan Murphy's 2018 miseri follows the events leadg up to the murr of Gianni Versace, but offers a close look to gay culture the 1990s and tak serly the feelgs of isolatn, passn, joy, nnectn, shame, and straed sense of self-experience by s ensemble of gay like any Ryan Murphy show, balanc all of those hard feelgs by also beg dulgent, juicy, and fun — other words, highly n watch on Netflix.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

From ragg homophob to femme for femme pairgs to butch inty, this show vers a lot of to mentn Laverne Cox's role as Sophia Burset, groundbreakg for s passnately wrten reprentatn and appropriate stg, which won her a SAG award and three Emmy nomatns. If you love the classic documentary "Paris is Burng, " you'll love "Pose, " a drama seri (by Ryan Murphy) that follows the gay and trans people who pete the drag ball culture 1980s New seri featur an ensemble of queer talent, like Billy Porter, Indya Moore, and producers Ja Mock and Our Lady J, and lv to the ntrastg New York social scen of queer black and Lato culture alongsi yuppie on Netflix. 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. "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. 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.