He co-authored Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the SFBA and Celluloid San Francisco, and co-edited Identity Envy: Wanting to Be Who We're Not and Love, Castro Street: Reflections of San Francisco. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Public Library, and has advised and collaborated with San Francisco Neon. Jim Van Buskirk was the founding Program Manager of the James C. Hosted by Jim Van Buskirk with guests Al Barna and Randall Ann Homan of SF Neon, in proud partnership with the GLBT Historical Society. Plan to share your personal histories of some of these long-gone (as well as a few surviving) sites. These photographs, chiefly by Henri Leleu (from the GLBT Historical Society Archives) capture a dawning of San Francisco's gay bars and clubs, circa 1960s-1970s. In the late 1960s they started coming out of the dark, announcing themselves with neon signs. Often veiled behind tinted glass, with narrow entrances to allow doormen to screen patrons, they needed to hide the goings-on within from the general public, and the police, as a matter of survival. Gay bars were often hidden, unmarked enclaves for only those in the know. Thursday June 9, 2022, 6:30 pm | ONLINE ZOOM EVENT
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