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He pointed specifically to the Mattachine Society, with its "national headquarters" located in San Francisco. But in the course of the debate, the homophobia of both candidates alienated a sizable"presumably gay"group of voters.

But it took gay years for these elements to converge and for a grassroots gay community to adopt a civil rights agenda and burst into the forum of national politics. For astute political observers, the election in San Francisco revealed the political stirrings of an emerging community.

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. SIR also held "Candidate's Nights," in which local political candidates fielded questions from a gay audience. Police extortion of gay bars became a scandal in when several bars refused to pay and went to court instead.

In New York, similar developments occurred. It is the first gay and lesbian organization in the state, and is one of the first gay and lesbian college student-led groups in the country, the first being the Student Homophile League at Columbia, founded in Article • Pride Through the Decades Pride in the 's Stonewall National Monument Pictures from the "Annual Reminders".

In a desperate move to gain support, the opposing candidate accused the mayor of harboring sexual deviates within the city. In the aftermath, gay bar owners formed the Tavern Guild and worked cooperatively to fight police harassment. The Society for Individual Rights SIR opened a community center insponsoring a wide range of social and cultural activities.

Nevertheless, ONE had taken a major step towards a more assertive stand on behalf of gay people. The "Homosexual Bill of Rights" was 1960s prototype for the gay civil rights agenda of the s. These groups felt that such a document, even for discussion purposes, took "a demanding attitude towards society.

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Ina new gay organization was formed in San Francisco, concerned with the development of the gay community, as well as political action. The second key event of occurred in San Francisco where an incumbent mayor Christopher was running for reelection.

The broad vision of the early Mattachine was again taken up in civil rights activism and community building efforts. At the time, most depictions of gay men and women in mainstream media were found in salacious newspaper and tabloid articles, all of them reported from a murky distance.

The debate was bitter and relations between Daughters of Bilitis and the men's groups were strained in the following years.

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In the s, the gay movement absorbed the profound and successive influences of the civil rights, anti-war, feminist and counterculture movements. This smear tactic failed, however, and the mayor was re-elected in a landslide.

"Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny leading the picket line" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. When the ballots were counted it was found that some nine thousand people had voted for neither candidate. Historical Essay.

Throughout the early sixties, San Francisco remained a center of gay activism. First an internal debate which clarified issues in the movement and drew a line between accommodationism and the emerging activism of the s. Inseveral liberal ministers became concerned with homosexual rights and formed the Council on Religion and the Homosexual CRH.

When the police showed up in force and arrested several of the ministers, the outcry that followed placed an effective restraint on police harassment.