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1970s San Fransisco Gay Life 1
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 1.36.23 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T20:36:54+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Sunbathers hangout near a bus stop in the Castro District, San Francisco. Sometime during the mid to late 1970s. To a great degree, gay men—and, to a lesser degree, gay women—were building themselves a world apart from the rest of San Francisco. Gay men could spend days, or an entire week, going to their offices, to the cleaner, to the bank and the health club, dining in restaurants, attending political meetings, and going to church without seeing anyone who was not gay. Some, such as Bob Ross, the head of the gay Tavern Guild, said that they actually did just that on occasion. Others normally lived all but their working lives within gay society.plain2023-04-03T20:36:54+00:00mid 1970sGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49