TITLE | DESCRIPTION | DATE CREATED | IS FORMAT OF |
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Gay Freedom Day Parade 1976 | Gay Freedom Day Parade 1976 in San Francisco, CA. Film by Rich Weiss from the Henri Leleu collection. Leleu (1907-1996) was a gay man who was active in the San Francisco leather scene and participated in LGBTQ community groups. File name: glbths 1997-13 7 011 sc |
1976 | |
Castro #1 | Raw footage from the 1976 documentary short film The Castro: A Definitively Biased View. The tape depicts Castro neighborhood streetscapes and business interiors, including several antique stores, a spice shop, a clothing store, and a restaurant. It also includes an interview a gay activist, possibly Chris Perry, who was handing out whistles as part of campaign to stop anti-gay violence. |
1976 | |
Castro #3 | Raw footage from the 1976 documentary short film The Castro: A Definitively Biased View. The tape includes an extended interview with Scott Smith inside Castro Camera and a tour of Lee Mentley's home art gallery, the Hulah Palace (sometimes spelled Hula Palace). |
1976 | |
Castro #2 | Raw footage from the 1976 documentary short film The Castro: A Definitively Biased View. The tape depicts a ventriquist act and a drag performance utilizing yellowface at an unnamed performance venue. Yellowface refers to a tradition of theatrical and musical performance, originating in the mid-19th century, in which white actors deployed racist and stereotypical costumes, makeup, props, gestures, dialects, and musical sounds to connote ""Chineseness"" and/or ""Asianness"" and, in turn, foreigness and racial inferiority. It also includes a conversation with a man registering voters on the street, interior shots of Cliff's Variety store, and extended footage of a street theater performance. |
1976 | |
The Castro: A Definitively Biased View | A documentary short film about life in the Castro. Depicted are neighborhood streetscapes and business interiors, including several antique stores, a spice shop, a clothing store, and a restaurant; an interview with Scott Smith inside Castro Camera; a conversation with performer Pristine Condition; an interview a gay activist, possibly Chris Perry, who was handing out whistles as part of a campaign to stop anti-gay violence; a street theater performance; and a a conversation with a man registering voters on the street. |
1976 | |
1976 Castro Street Fair Original Tape 2 | Footage of the 1976 Castro Street Fair, taken by Daniel Smith, a member of the Queer Blue Light Video collective.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1976 | |
1976 Castro Street Fair Copy #1 | Footage of the 1976 Castro Street Fair, taken by Daniel Smith, a member of the Queer Blue Light Video collective.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1976 | |
Castro Street Fair 1976 Copy #3 | Footage of the 1976 Castro Street Fair, taken by Daniel Smith, a member of the Queer Blue Light Video collective.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1976 | |
1976 Castro Street Fair Original Tape 1 | Footage of the 1976 Castro Street Fair including an interview with Harvey Milk, taken by Daniel Smith, a member of the Queer Blue Light Video collective.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1976 | |
Gay Health Board Elections Original | Footage of interviews with people in the Castro about the Gay Health Board Election and the Gay Health Project, made by Daniel Smith and the Queer Blue Light Video collective. Some of this clip is audio-only.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1976 | |
Sodomy Laws Retrospective (1 of 3) | A panel discussion that took place ten years after California's "sodomy laws" were repealed. Historian Alan Bérubé details California's history with anti-gay legislation, beginning with the state's first law against sodomy that was passed in 1850 and continuing through to the decriminalization of both sodomy and oral sex between consenting adults in private in 1976. Bérubé also discusses historical patterns relating to sex laws, and he contextualizes the debate between public versus private information. Activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, cofounders of the Daughters of Bilitis, discuss the history of legislation criminalizing lesbian sex, and they detail the creation of the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in the 1960s. This material was digitized through the generous support of Larry Brenner and Angelo Figone. |
1986-01-30 | |
Sodomy Laws Retrospective (2 of 3) | A panel discussion that took place ten years after California's "sodomy laws" were repealed. Activist Phyllis Lyon discusses the Council on Religion and the Homosexual's Brief of Injustices. Politician Willie Brown, then the California State Assembly's Speaker of the Assembly, discusses the legislative side of the creation and passing of the 1976 Consenting Adult Sex Law, which decriminalized private and consensual gay sex. Activist Jim Foster, then a member of the San Francisco Health Commission, reflects on his experiences as an out gay man when gay sex was still criminalized, and he discusses ways in which the community organized in the 1950s and 1960s, including San Francisco's Tavern Guild and the Mattachine Society, to protect itself and ultimately decriminalize gay sex and relationships. This material was digitized through the generous support of Larry Brenner and Angelo Figone. |
1986-01-30 | |
Sodomy Laws Retrospective (3 of 3) | A panel discussion that took place ten years after California's "sodomy laws" were repealed. Activist Jo Daly discusses instances of heterosexual individuals being convicted under anti-sodomy/anti-oral sex laws. Activist George Raya relates his experiences as a lobbyist in Sacramento in the 1970s who lobbied for the Consenting Adult Sex Law from 1974 until its passing in 1976. Leonard Graff, the legal director for the National Gay Rights Advocates, discusses the continuing fight against sodomy laws in the United States. This material was digitized through the generous support of Larry Brenner and Angelo Figone. |
1986-01-30 |