M EfflT PRIDE X I ISSUE NO, 2 - WINTER 7 2 - 1 3 EDITION Published by the Flying Nun W THE YEBR THAT IXJflSR^ Gay Pride in 1972 In B«d This is what happened in YOUR Gay scene in San Francisco and California. MAY 11... Meeting of SFPD Officials and Gay activists at Castro-Valencia bar concerning areas 5... United States Congressman, problems. A first, which S.I .R . boycotted. W illiam Mailliard speaks at Gay Alliance' W ith m eeting. MAY 12... Gay Alliance picket of radio station. KSA Y, protesting record', "Legendary Chicken JAN UARY 6... Multi-million dollar lawsuit by Fairy" as being degrading to Gay peoples, SF Police Officer group against activist Rev. ended in the station taking record off air and Ray Broshears continued again. In third year issuing GA an apology. Th e Law now . JUNE 18... Gay Alliance "Zaps" the American That title is one used by famed Gay JANUARY 12... Gay Militants picket S.I.R., Medical Association convention being held at attorney, B.J. Beckwith in his lectures. M.C.C., and C.R.H. Dinner for Willie Brown Hilton Hotel. EMMAUS, GAY SUNSHINE,, and GAY And after being hassled in the courts all A LLIA N CE, protested Brown's tokenism. JUNE 25... GAY PARADE, over fifty thousand day long, day after day, it is obvious that people lined the streets of downtown San people are indeed “going to bed with the JANUARY 29... Gay militants, led by Paul Francisco to see the first ever, major Gay Mariah, walk out in protest of discrimination Parade, which was staged by the Christopher law” or else they would have little need against Gays in two day prison conference at Street West/SF Parade Committee. That night, of his counsel. U.C. Berkeley. 600 persons attended the Gay Liberation Dancé Beckwith has a court record that most held at the Family Dog on the Great Highway. any attorney could envy, for in many FEBRUARY 2... Supervisor Quentin Kopp speaks at GAY ALLIANCE meeting. JU LY 1. 2, 3... The Southwest Conferecne of years of practicing law, B.J. Beckwith has Denounces discriminatory actions against Gays. Gay Organizations, an arm of the near defunct yet to lose a client to prison in a sex case. National Coalition of Gay Organizations, held Beckwith is the attorney for the FEBRU A RY 11... Presidential candidate their conference at Bakersfield California. Gay Eugene McCarthy speaks to GAY ALLIAN CE. Alliance-SF and the Radical Gay Christians Society for Individual Rights, and has protested attempts by the S.W .P. to co-opt Gay been in that post for four years now, organizations. FEBRUARY 23... Gay militants ZAP prison during which, he has won on behalf of psychosurgeons at U.C. Medical Center. Don Jackson and GAY ALLIAN CE led pickets. JU LY 9... The S.l.R. Center at 83 Sixth Street the homosexual community, many legal was torched by an angry S.l.R . member who victories. MARCH 6... The "lavender pope" Morris Kight later turned himself into the SFPD. He is now He first filed suit against the City of f addresses meeting of the GAY A LLIA N CE. at Vacaville prison. Oakland’s Police Department for their M A R C H 8... Federal Building protest of Vice JU LY 25... The Gay Alliance announced the entrapment of Gays in that City. It was i Squard murders of Howard Efiand and Frank beginning of the Gay Legal Advocates project victory without litigation, as the City Bartley. U.S. Federal Attorney meets with of the Alliance. B.J. Beckwith is a small fellow, Attorney promised an end to such acts, Morris Kight, Larry Littlejohn, and Rev. Ray standing but 5’8V4”, but he is pure hell on Broshears, in a historic first. SEPTEMBER... S.l.R., the Alice B. Toklas and the Chief of Police shook up the Vice those that rile that Texas temper of his. Memorial Democratic Club, and the Council on Squad, transferring officers involved. MARCH 8... First meeting of Gay Parade Religion and the Homosexual held a candidates He smiles a lot, and that with his thining night at Glide with 40 in attendance. Today, cases of entrapment by Oakland committee held at Glide with forty-one persons red hair and freckles, makes Beckwith an present. West Coast CSW Parade originator. Police officers are extremely rare. OCTOBER 1... William E. BeardemphI easy person to relate to. His long slow Rev. Bob Humphries called meeting. Later Beckwith won fame for his re-organized the GAY VOTERS LEAGUE of Texas drawl sometimes just about drives San Francisco, and became the nwderator of courtroom defense of A1 Alvarez, who MARCH 12... GAY RADIO begins on the assistant District Attorneys up the KFFA-FM, with th» D.O.3., S.l.R., G.A.-SF, the League. was arrested in a Gay Liberation and Gay Sunshine - Gayly Planet rotating with wall. He is very pleasant in court, until, OCTOBER 16... Over 150 people t u r n e d out demonstration at the ‘Examiner’ in what one another on a weekly basis each Surtday at the D.A. makes a move that Beckwith 5 :3 0 PM for the first GAY VOTERS LEAGUE of San is now known as the “Purple Hand Francisco, Candidates Night. feels is out of order, and then the smile Incident.” The prosecuting attorney in fades, and his voice sharpens and quivers MARCH 25... Gay Sunshine Collective picketed OCTOBER 17... Opening of the Emmaus House that case, was William Bierne, who is now and he sez, softly, “you honor, I do the California Medical Facility at Vacaville in Switchboard and Drop-in Center at 618 Shrader involved on behalf of the SFPD Police protest of mistreatment of Gays. Street in the Haight-Ashbury. believe my learned colleague has made a Officers Association in litigation against mistake,” and when the judge rules in OCTOBER 28... San Francisco Tavern Guild's, another Gay militant. Alvarez was favor of Beckwith, as most do, for he is Ma r c h 3 1 ... Reverend Ray Broshears staged a Beaux Arts Ball not picketed by Gay Alliance acquitted in that case. one-man sit-in inside the Vacaville prison, and militants for first tinte in four years. G.A. nearly always right, Beckwith’s smile Beckwith then filed suit against refusing to leave until proper medical treatment Chairman was special guest of SFTG preisdent. returns and he sez, “thank you your Bob R oss. Pacific Telephone for refusing to allow was given to GA member, Albert Gay. honor, very kindly!” S.l.R. to place an advertisment in the OCTOBER 31... Halloween saw the birth of a A PRIL 12... $400,000 cross-suit filed agianst new Gay Liberation paper called the Gayly Yellow Pages. This case, which went to Many attorneys say they enjoy the SFPD Police Officers Association by Gay Planet. the California Supreme Court was won watching Beckwith in court, in that he is Alliance chairman. Reverend Broshears. when Pacific Telephone capitulated NOVEMBER 22... Protest and Rally by Gay one from whom anyone can learn Alliance at City Hall regarding SFPD before a decision was rendered. something, but they enjoy his courtroom A PRIL 22... April 22rtd Coalition leads most harassment and brutality. Attorney Terry He next filed suit in Federal Court to maneuvers. effective protest against the wars and Hallinan was featured speaker along with Bill discrimination yet held, with 25,000 ntarching declare 288a and 286 unconstitutional. A BeardemphI artd Reverned Ray Broshears. This Yes, when he graduated from the from Baker and Fell to Kezar Stadium, with the wos another first for San Francisco. Federal three judge panel dismissed the Gay Alliance's Gay contingent being the largest case, after Bay Area District Attorney University of Texas and was admitted to contingent. All wore lavender armbands, and DECEMBER 1... The Gay Alliances' GAY agreed to no longer prosecute cases of the bar in 1959, the lawyering profession lavender flags. PRIDE published. 288a and 286 when conducted in private. gained a real colorful character, with The latest B.J. Beckwith victory, was character. over the SFPD, in that he notified the B.J. has been a member of S.l.R. since SFPD Legal Counsel of impending suit back in 1966, and has appeared at most concerning the violation of the rights of every Gay rights demonstration ever held. Gays concerning V.D. Quarantine holds, In recent years he appears at which he said deprived the defendant to dem onstrations organized by groups bail for 72 hours. other than S.l.R., proving to many, that In another negotiated session, victory he is an attorney for all of the people. He went to Beckwith and the Gay is pictured here walking in the Gay community. The police changed their Parade, and was the only Gay attorney to actions. so do. GAY PRIDE is a quarterly happening of the G A Y P R ID E GAY ALLIAN CE of San Francisco. This is not of San Francisco ISSUE NO. 2 WINTER '72-'73 a paper of profit. All funds solicited for published by the G A Y A L L IA N C E of San advertisements above the co^s involved in Francisco. P.O. Box 1528. San Francisco producir>g G A Y P R ID E, have gone to the senior CA 94101. (415) 771 3366 citizens and disabled peoples project called the OLD FOLKS DEFENSE LEAGUE, which holds functions for the elderly of the Editor-Reverend Raymond Broshears Tenderloin, and to hold free suppers for the Production-CTA Graphics young as well.