Long before the Summer of Love, SF’s gay and lbian muni created publitns documentg their stggle to live and love eely.
Contents:
- POIGNANT, EXUBERANT PHOTOS OF GAY LIFE THE ’70S — JT TIME FOR PRI
- 6 DES OF LGBT MAGAZ, INCLUDG THE ADVOTE AND GAY TIM
POIGNANT, EXUBERANT PHOTOS OF GAY LIFE THE ’70S — JT TIME FOR PRI
Only the margs of the papers do an klg of a world outsi of the hippie scene emerge: an event listg for weekly gay danc, an ad for male mols, a heartfelt same sex personal. In 1967, Vector, a monthly magaze published by San Francis’s largt homophile society, ran ver stori like “Drag, ” “Sex Public Plac” and “God and the Gay. It featured reviews of lbian films and lerature, news clippgs, profil of acplished women, reports on natnal studi related to homosexualy, erotic fictn and sappy love poems.
The cy wasn’t unfurlg rabow flags que yet, but 1967, the LGBT muny of San Francis was alcg to what would bee the foundatns of the Gay Liberatn movement. Declared the “gay pal of Ameri” a 1964 LIFE magaze ver story, San Francis’s permissive attu didn’t guarantee equal rights for s gay populatn. The Society for Individual Rights (wonrfully acronymed SIR), the homophile group behd Vector, was found 1964.
So, like the Black Panthers across the Bay, was up to the cy’s gay and lbian populatn, through the DOB and SIR, to create their own news servic.
6 DES OF LGBT MAGAZ, INCLUDG THE ADVOTE AND GAY TIM
Edwards” rails agast Vector’s efforts to pare the cy’s homosexual populatn wh the hippie populatn, who Edwards believ have ntributed nothg but damage to the image of San Francis.
“We do agree, homosexuals and hippi are not the same, but they are what is happeng.
Sli 1 of 13, A ftg acpaniment to the NYC Pri celebratns around the cy this weekend, the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art on Wooster Street has an exhibn up this season centerg on a sgular era gay history: the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS 1970s. We explore fashn, the self, portraure, gay exprsn and even the impact on the art world.