A fabulous montage of word and image, this is the first book ever to chronicle the origin and evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Capturing the international center of the gay experience as never before, and published to coincide with the opening of the Gay and Lesbian Center of the new main San Francisco Public Librarythe only publicly funded archive of its kind in the worldGay by the Bay contains over 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs of historical memorabilia, including correspondence, posters, buttons, and other artifacts. With anecdotes about Bay Area gay luminaries, past and present, and a foreword by acclaimed author Armistead Maupin, Gay by the Bay offers a scintillating look at a continually dynamic and evolving community.
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San Francisco, or Sodom by the Sea, as it has sometimes been called, has had a thriving gay and lesbian community for as long as people have been inhabiting the Bay area. Published to coincide with the April 18 opening of the Gay and Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library, Gay by the Bay offers a deluxe tour of the city's queer history in words and many, many pictures. From fantastic 16th-century accounts of Amazon warriors to the radicalization of the Castro in the 1960s to the rallying cries of Queer Nation and the broad-based diversification of the gay and lesbian community in the 1990s, this title lovingly captures the flavor of a city most queers call home. Because of the limited geographical scope of the book, purchases will probably be limited to the Bay area, although it should be required reading for any gay or lesbian studies student and should be a necessary purchase for libraries with strong gay and lesbian collections. [See the interview with LJ reviewer Jim Van Buskirk on p. 102.]-Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., Ore.
--Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., Ore.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., Ore.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I left my heart in San Francisco. High on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars. The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco... Words by Douglass Cross Music by his lover, George Cory Copyright 1954 by General Music Publishing Co., Inc.
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Excellent Biography of the LGBT Movement in the Bay Area,
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This review is from: Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Paperback)
What an excellent book about one of my favorite places on earth! I was especially impressed by the authors' commitment to archiving the history of the LGBT movement but highlight the contributions and challenges that people of color within the LGBT community have brought to the achievements and complexities of the LGBT community. Also, an abundance of pictures, captions, and graphics to assist in chronicling such a rich and diverse movement. Bravo!
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Invaluable Reference,
By Film Buff (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Paperback)
This well researched book is also quite entertaining. While I bought it for its scholorship, it also serves as a nice "coffee table" book. Guests in my home enjoy thumbing through its many illustrations. This is a MUST HAVE.
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As a long time gay resident of San Francisco, I was thrilled when this historical pictoral tome came out way back then.I bought the book and have it sitting proudly on my coffee table - after all these years. It has great text and even more wonderful photos of personalities and memorabilia from decades of historical gay & lesbian San Francisco. Van Buslkirk and Stryker know their stuff and I appreciate all the research and the historical facts that come out in this masterfully produced work. The photos are well reporduced and there is even the great reprodcution of the hilarious 1982 SURRENDER DIANE campaign poster from Sister Boom Boom's historical SF supervisorial run against then and unpoular Mayor Diane Feinstein. Classic. BUY THIS BOOK.
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If San Francisco's status as the "Gay Capital of the World" was secured by the time Life magazine featured photos of two local gay bars in its 1964 article "Homosexuality in America," the city's history as a queer place began long before that. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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If San Francisco's status as the "Gay Capital of the World" was secured by the time Life magazine featured photos of two local gay bars in its 1964 article "Homosexuality in America," the city's history as a queer place began long before that. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
queer history, gay film festival, queer community, homophile organizations, homophile movement, queer culture, queer people, bar culture, transgendered people Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Los Angeles, Rink Foto, Impact Visuals, Rick Gerharter, Cathy Cade, New York, World War, City Hall, Daniel Nicoletta, Queer Nation, Castro Street, Mattachine Society, Board of Supervisors, Civic Center, Harvey Milk, Market Street, University of California, Federal Building, Gay Sunshine, Lesbian Center, Tavern Guild, Black Cat Cafe, Harry Hay, Pacific Telephone New!
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- Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 1) by Armistead Maupin in Front Matter, and page 72
- Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics) by Walt Whitman on page 10, and page 11
- For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City by Charles Warren Stoddard on page 12, and page 19
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- Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994 by Elizabeth A. Armstrong in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture, and Difference (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies) by Scott Bravmann in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco by Anthony W. Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Best of San Francisco: An Impertinent Insiders' Guide to Everybody's Favorite City by Don W. Martin on page 213
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