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Vol. 48 • No. 40 • October 4-10, 2018
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Brian Asman cruised last year’s Castro Street Fair on his self-made balloon motorcycle.
GLBT Historical Society Executive Director Terry Beswick, left, talked with archivist Bill Levay in December.
New food, local vendors focus of Castro fair
B.A.R. digital archive project wraps up
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ew food offerings and local artisans will be featured this Sunday, October 7, at the 45th annual Castro Street Fair. The neighborhood event, which has struggled in recent years with declining attendance and participation by LGBT civic groups, has taken several steps to reverse both trends this year. It reduced the cost for members of the Castro Merchants business association to rent booths at the fair. And it has brought in different food vendors See page 12 >>
In rare move, Brown vetoes LGBT bills
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Dancer wows Folsom crowd
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steban DeLeon wowed the crowd with his dancing at the Folsom Street Fair Sunday, September 30. Thousands of
people attended the leather and kink event, which was produced by Folsom Street Events.
digitization project to make archival issues of the Bay Area Reporter accessible online has wrapped up. Soon every issue of the LGBT newspaper based in San Francisco published between April 1, 1971 and August 5, 2005 will be available via two internet databases. The project was overseen by the GLBT Historical Society and funded by $68,000 in grants from the Bob Ross Foundation, named after the B.A.R.’s founding publisher who died in 2003. See page 12 >>
Archive documents late SF mayor Moscone’s close LGBT ties
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overnor Jerry Brown, for the first time in five years, vetoed LGBT rights bills this legislative session. To the consternation of LGBT advocates and Education groups, Rick Gerharter Brown struck down Assembly Bill 2153, Governor Jerry authored by Assembly- Brown man Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond), which would have funded annual training sessions for educators in the state on how to support LGBTQ students in grades seven through 12 and address issues they face in school like bullying and harassment. In a veto message issued Sunday, September 30, Brown noted that he had signed into law in 2015 AB 827, which required the state Department of Education to assess whether local schools are providing their certificated staff working in middle and high schools information about the resources available for LGBTQ students. “Current law also requires the department to monitor local schools to ensure the adoptions of See page 12 >>
n June 1977 an irate San Francisco resident mailed off a letter to then-mayor George Moscone. The focus of his ire was the planned Pride celebration at the end of the month. He complained that his relatives were likely to cancel their visit to the city after hearing on their local news about the “faggot (they say ‘gay’) festival AKA orgy” to be held in the city. In permitting the event, the letter writer asked Moscone, “Why do you buckle to the fag desires, other than VOTES?” Moscone sent a 210-word reply in late July thanking the person for their letter and defending the right of the city’s gay “tax-paying” residents, which he estimated numbered more than 100,000 men and women, to hold the annual event. “I am sorry that you object so violently to this parade, and that you feared for the safety of your relatives because such an event could take place in San Francisco,” wrote Moscone. “I would inform you, first of all, that our City passed an ordinance in 1972 which prohibits discrimination against citizens on the basis of race, religion, or sexual preference. As the mayor of San Francisco I am sworn to uphold the laws of this City to the best of my ability, and that is exactly what I intend to do.” The correspondence is just one illustration of how close Moscone was, both politically and socially, to the local LGBT community during his time in office. It is among the roughly 160,000
Courtesy of Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
A photographer from the Associated Press in 1977 captured this iconic image of Supervisor Harvey Milk, left, and Mayor George Moscone inside San Francisco City Hall.
documents that make up the George Moscone Collection housed at the University of the Pacific Library’s Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Moscone graduated with a B.A. in sociology in 1953 from the university in Stockton, California, when it was known as the College of the Pacific. A star basketball player and leader of the student government during his time there,
Moscone received an honorary law degree from the private university in 1976. His family agreed to donate Moscone’s papers to his alma mater in 2014. After receiving a $47,232 grant last year from the National Archives’ National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the university was able to See page 8 >>
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