Harvey Milk is elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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Before, gay bars were required to install blackened windows or no windows at all. With open windows, Twin Peaks tavern opens as the first openly gay bar in San Francisco. This is the start of the Gay Freedom Day Parade, also known as Pride. A "gay-in'' the next day in Golden Gate Park draws many more people. On June 27, 20 to 30 people march down Polk Street from Aquatic Park to City Hall in San Francisco's first gay rights march.
The world's first transgender organization, the National Transsexual Counseling Unit, was established in San Francisco in response to the Compton's Cafeteria Riot that occured in August. The National Planning Conference of Homophile Organizations holds the first national convention of gay and lesbian groups in San Francisco. The Society for Individual Rights opens the first gay community center in the U.S. Life Magazine links San Francisco as the “Gay Capital of America” in an article “Gay San Francisco” San Francisco is the home of the first lesbian organization in the U.S., The Daughters of Bilitis. It was shut down by the vice squad almost as soon as it opened, after a high-profile judge was linked to bar, leading to a reform movement that helped shutter the equally infamous Barbary Coast. Waiters cross-dressed and for $1 (a huge sum in those days) would perform sex acts in nearby booths. The city may have had gay bars before The Dash, but none was as visible.
The Dash was the first “notorious” gay bar in San Francisco. We’ve come a long way and we can’t wait to see what comes next. We’ve created a little timeline to commemorate some of these milestones. So many “firsts” in this civil rights struggle have taken place right here. The first same sex issued marriage license. The decision has been eagerly awaited by the community and city of San Francisco, and the announcement came on the eve of the 45th Pride celebration and parade unfolding in San Francisco that weekend.Īs the symbolic heart of gay rights progress for decades, San Francisco has so many reasons to be proud of this moment. Supreme Court ruled that marriage equality is a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. This is a story we’ll all tell 50 years from now: “When I was your age, an iPhone cost $200.