Tag: 1800s
Posted in Halloween
SF Halloween was never just for kids
SF’s Gay Halloween – Part 1 San Francisco’s early embrace of Halloween From practically the very beginning, San Franciscans have made a very big deal…
This week in SF Gay History: October 13 – 19
Cover photo by Doug Hinckle, The Washington Blade October 16, 1854 On this date in 1864, Irish writer Oscar Wilde, now honored on Castro’s Rainbow…
Posted in Gay Bars & Clubs
America’s first gay bar?
Queerty has an interesting excerpt from Justin Martin’s new book, Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians, in which he suggests that in the…
Posted in People
Emperor Norton I (c. 1818 – 1880)
Lesbian and gay San Franciscans may fondly remember Jose Sarria as the Widow Norton, Empress I of San Francisco. But if she was the widow…
Origins of the hanky code
In the early 1970s, some gay men — particularly in the leather scene — began to wear colorful handkerchiefs to signal their sexual interests (e.g.,…
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