Susan Stryker, executive director of the Center for the History of Sexual Diversity, is making a documentary film about it.ġ4. The riot, mostly overlooked, happened three years before Stonewall. Site of a 1966 riot between cops swinging clubs and drag queens swinging purses, leading to 46 arrests. The world's first gay community center, founded by the Society for Individual Rights in 1966.ġ3. Still above the entrance are 15 colored light panels on the marquee that used to announce Frisco Disco.ġ2. Started as the Frisco Club in 1973, it evolved to Frisco Disco in 1977 then Frisco Roy-al from 1979 to 1983 with male go-go dancers. Boxes and boxes of pins, programs and posters are stacked warehouse-style.ġ1. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transsexual Historical Society of Northern California: 973 Market St.
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When the cops outsmarted them by coming in both sides, they'd outsmart the cops by going into a series of underground tunnels that connected the bars along the strip.ġ0. There were doors on both Market and Turk so when the cops came in the front, customers would run out the back, and vice versa. Opened in 1935, it was the last of the old gay bars, including the College Inn and Pirate's Den, on the island where Market Street meets Turk Street. Opened in 1938, it was convenient to travelers staying at the YMCA. It's not necessarily the one that inspired the gay anthem by the Village People, but it may as well have been.ħ.
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12 Adler Place: 12 Adler Place, off Columbus Avenue. This is not the restaurant at Broadway and Kearny.ĥ. The law was overturned by the California Supreme Court, but the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and San Francisco police retaliated by harassing gay bars until Black Cat closed in 1963. Here drag performer Jose Sarria sang "God Save Us Nellie Queens" to the tune of "My Country Tis of Thee." Owner Sol Stoumen fought the legality of closing a bar just because it served known homosexuals.
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Closed in 1948, it became Ann's 440 Club and now the Chi Chi Club.Ĥ Black Cat Cafe: 710 Montgomery St.
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The city's first lesbian bar, it featured pianist Gladys Bentley, a large African American woman in white tails and top hat.