Shot between 1965-1970, Gay San Francis featur a llectn of credible footage of San Francis’s thrivg LGBTQ culture, wh a foc on the Tenrlo, San Francis’s first queer neighborhood.
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GAY SAN FRANCIS: LOST FILM, 1965-1970
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As the documentary rells, the Gay Film Ftival of Super-8 Films, showed the movi on a screen ma om a bed Framele founr Marc Hutis (right) ont of the Castro theatre the 1970s. In 1922, San Francis’s Nasser fay opened the Castro Theatre: an event that me to fe an era and what would bee a gay neighborhood. 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.
On December 1, the Tenrlo Mm will screen a piece of redisvered history: Gay San Francis by Jonathan Raymond, a prevly lost documentary pictg queer life San Francis five s ago. Shot between 1965-1970, Gay San Francis featur a llectn of credible footage of San Francis’s thrivg LGBTQ culture, wh a foc on the Tenrlo, San Francis’s first queer neighborhood.
Scen om gay bars are tercut wh fascatg terviews featurg gay men, lbians, and trans women discsg issu om harassment to sex to job secury. The film also clus a not-to-be missed Halloween drag show at On The Levee, one of SF’s many historic gay bars that closed ’s doors long ago.
GAY SAN FRANCIS
Filmmakers San Stryker and Victor Silverman unearthed this film while rearchg their Emmy-wng documentary Screamg Queens: The Rt at Compton's Cafeteria, which clud footage om Gay San Francis. Rare photos of backstage drsg rooms, streetsp, legendary clubs, and daily hangouts together form a kaleispic view, showsg the diversy and energy that the neighborhood is still known for Tenrlo is where San Francis keeps s secrets – home to unrground gay bars, illic nightclubs, and the re of the vice dtry.
While ostensibly a 'straight' exposé of gay life San Francis, there's a knowgly arch qualy to all -- the stern voiceover wrten and livered wh the slightt of wks; the terviews wh trans sex workers and gay and lbian upl amed to te, not nscend; the drag numbers (featurg Charl Pierce!
This here is a rather tertg documentary that tak the gay hang-outs San Francis. The film terviews homosexual upl who talk about their relatnship and we also get to wns a Halloween party by drag SAN FRANCISCO was a rather fascatg ltle film bee tak you right to San Francis durg this era and lets you see how thgs once were. There's an extend sectn featurg a Halloween party at one of the gay bars, cludg an over-the-top Yma Sumac-que act.