Pride, Prejudice and Gay Politics -1982

Pride, Prejudice and Gay Politics -1982 | KQED

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Follow the path of LGBTQ+ history in San Francisco and learn just how far we've come with this look back at the dawn of local gay activism from the KQED archives. Spencer Michels reports on the gay political presence in San Francisco in 1982. Watch 'Pride, Prejudice, and Gay Politics'.
A KQED Production, October 27, 1982.

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@pen64 3 жыл бұрын

I was born and raised in SF, graduated from HS in ‘82. I recall the vibrant community of the 70’s as a kid and came out two years before this. This era was gonna be “my moment”. That turned out quite differently... but I’m still alive. Sometimes I am quite amazed, considering all the people I lost in those early years. One thing young gays might not get is how much of a community it was. The Castro was it’s own village. All the shops, restaurants, bars were gay owned and operated. It was a safe space unlike anything that exists today. I hardly recognize it now.

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

I was a teen in 82 . It wasn't my time .

@georgfriedrichhandel4390 Жыл бұрын

Isn't that a good thing? Gays are now omnipresent all over the city. They aren't confined to a "pink ghetto" any longer. I believe that reflects how much they have been accepted by the entire city.

@notshylo 2 жыл бұрын

It’s kind of interesting that no mention was made of “Kaposi’s” or “Pneumocystis” because it had definitely hit by the time this aired.

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

Oh man , Pneumocystis ....

@andrewrobinson8305 Жыл бұрын

Had it? This is 1976. The first reported cases weren’t until 1980. I’ve never read or heard any mention of either of those conditions being identified until then.

@notshylo Жыл бұрын

@@andrewrobinson8305 it’s from 1982 though

@StevenLoren 10 жыл бұрын

This is a fascinating look at gay history and politics in San Francisco in the early 1980s right before AIDS devastated the community. Many of the gay community leaders of that era are in this documentary.

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

And unfortunately , dead

@allgre40258 4 жыл бұрын

I was there in the early 80s!

@dtlopez100 4 жыл бұрын

Alan Green do you remember the early days of aids?

@yank196101 3 жыл бұрын

@@dtlopez100 As soon as I figured out what was going on thereI ran off to London (1983). If you are going to do it then make it BIG!!

@pen64 3 жыл бұрын

Our Journey Mommy and Mamas I’m from SF and I graduated from HS in ‘82. It would soon get a lot worse from this point. I remember the huge obituary sections in the gay paper (the Bay Area Reporter), I recall seeing someone out and about and then reading that they were dead a few weeks later. I remember men barely 30, frail as 90 year olds, covered in purple KS lesions... and so much more. It was a frightening time and place to be a young gay man. A reliable test was years away at this point and everyone was paranoid and just assumed they were going to die.

@neeneelee1973 3 жыл бұрын

you are blessed to be with us today❣️

@aparrie7998 3 жыл бұрын

Glad u didn’t die of AIDS

@YesItsMeGuys68 3 жыл бұрын

That was a great bit of history ... my , how times have changed ... through a lot of Blood, Sweat & Tears ....

@99999myk 4 жыл бұрын

I was 17 and totally out back in 82. It was great that AIDS wasn't really around but I remember a lot...a LOT of homophobia back then. That really didn't stop until recently. I lived in SF from 1991-1996 and had 55 anti-gay things happen to me in that time; mostly by the homeless and out of towners.

@MimimiMcArthur 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Texas and it happens all the time. I hate this place. I need to get to California!

@WestIndianAK 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, AIDS was most *definitely* "around* in 1982; the death rate just hadn't risen that high *yet.* The virus incubates in the body for years before you start to show symptoms. Most of the people who died of it in the mid-to-late '80s almost certainly already had the virus in them in 1982; they just didn't know it yet.

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

I was 13 and just noticing some boys were pretty ....I had only crushed on girls up til then . I was definitely not out . Louisiana is pretty laissez faire but struggles with homosexuality .

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

@@MimimiMcArthur I have been there ... only good thing is Aron Ra

@edwardmiessner6502 5 жыл бұрын

Quite a window into the SF gay community in 1982. I didn't know California's gay civil rights law was still not yet enacted.

@MagnusPaul1976 3 жыл бұрын

There is still a very big stigmatized presence against the LGBT Community, here in South Africa ! It is rather disappointing and pathetic, that South Africa has not moved on with the times ! 😲

@TheAlfredPlatform 3 жыл бұрын

Really? I thought that same sex marriage was legal in south africa.

@MagnusPaul1976 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAlfredPlatform Yes it is legal and I agree with you on that one 💯 ! But, there are a number of regions in South Africa, where the Communities project some degree of scepticism. Take my city, for example... There are no gay clubs in the city centre, as this is outlawed or banned. We used to have a gay club, a fair distance on the outskirts of the city, but it had been closed down a while back. There are too many people living here with strict conservative views. And it is not only here, where this is a major issue... There are other cities in South Africa too, that fall under this category !

@dampergoldenrod4156 3 жыл бұрын

who is the religious preacher at 2:59?

@SanCarlosGuy2001 4 жыл бұрын

I was there 38 years ago. How times have changed so much for the better.

@pen64 3 жыл бұрын

Steve Brown If you consider the commercialized, heterofied Castro of today a change for the better, more power to you.

@jalicea1650 3 жыл бұрын

This was before I was born and I find this to be crazy! Was it as wild as the videos show? Bath houses and freedom fighters like what they showed in videos like this? I'm shocked of the gay culture of yesteryear and the hell y'all must of gone thru! Thanks for living and fighting for us who were not born yet. I still cant believe how much the world has changed.

@ryohn5468 2 жыл бұрын

San Francisco sucks today

@ryohn5468 2 жыл бұрын

San Francisco is too expensive and too hetero.

@7u655 Жыл бұрын

You should work on Forensic Files

@eugeniasyro5774 Жыл бұрын

Harvey Milk was a good man but not more so than George Mos one who's death has often been overlooked.

@detoxmuscle 4 жыл бұрын

We have had quite a fight. But we did it; four words I never thought we’d be able to say.

@normanduke8855 4 жыл бұрын

You have your head in the sand. We got marriage equality and that could be taken away with just one more Supreme Court judge. Aside from that, homophobia is more entrenched than ever.

@mintberrycrunch4333 3 жыл бұрын

@@normanduke8855 oh, Norman, I must respectfully disagree. That last claim of yours really needs some evidence to substantiate it, which I would be open to hearing. Otherwise, let yourself be free.

@pen64 3 жыл бұрын

It’s far from over dude.

@bluedragon4 3 жыл бұрын

Police harassing people here too. it's gone on too long.

@pen64 3 жыл бұрын

Fuck the police

@MimimiMcArthur 3 жыл бұрын

@@pen64 fuck em!

@judahabajian2801 2 жыл бұрын

I dont get it?? Why the cowboy mustaches?? What up with that look!!

@cdresq 4 жыл бұрын

Gosh. I wonder how many made out of the AIDS crisis. Bless all of us :(

@yank196101 3 жыл бұрын

It was really really awlful.

@CJBlanda 3 жыл бұрын

.......almost 40 years ago, there has been progress!

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

The gains were threatened by the AIDS epidemic

@phillyjayee 3 жыл бұрын

@29:40 he was waiting to buy some fried chicken and the police still beat him now that’s sad.

@aparrie7998 3 жыл бұрын

Racist po sh*ts will always do things like that,

@dampergoldenrod4156 3 жыл бұрын

i thought it was someone else waiting in line who committed the beating.

@ryohn5468 2 жыл бұрын

Now the millennials have no clue about the reality that goes on.

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

Not the millenials , they were kids back then ....Gen Z hasn't a clue

@oliverwilson5957 Жыл бұрын

We lost so many people and voices of the community because of the failure of government to prevent AIDs from spreading Stop making this a generational issue

@roder51 4 жыл бұрын

Land of the free - has to fight every day to be happy. Home of the brave - fear of gays.

@johnfox901 5 жыл бұрын

About 1/3 of the openly gay people seen in these clips were likely dead by the early 1990s.

@aparrie7998 3 жыл бұрын

Yep

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

Thats the odds

@scottnathens6377 4 жыл бұрын

A grainy look at early-stage progressivism.

@daisychain3007 3 жыл бұрын

What is GOP?

@edwardtjbrown2193 2 жыл бұрын

The "GOP" is shorthand for the Republican party. The Democratic party is older. Although their are some really old minor political parties.

@frankpaya690 2 жыл бұрын

@Andrea Sandoval it means-GRAND old party. It's not the oldest party in America the Democrat Party is older.

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

Grand Old Party aka The Republican Party

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

@Andrea Sandoval Grand old Party

@jessicarowley6010 4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure the two men singing were infected.

@aparrie7998 3 жыл бұрын

They died

@judahabajian2801 2 жыл бұрын

@@aparrie7998 yeah the one on the left looks a little thin.. just saying 😌

@pooddescrewch8718 Жыл бұрын

Pretty Gaunt

@jesselgavieres6488 4 күн бұрын

Zombies, got cash for to do drugs? Got poo latrines? Got free support for using drugs? So san Francisco CA, a place to be, a go to area to be zombies? Hmm.,., So why not advertise to the world? "Zombies, be on San Francisco CA" to have all the free goodies, free stuffs and all tax free & paid?,..,