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BARchive :: Once Upon a Time in Oaktown

BARchive :: Once Upon a Time in Oaktown

  • by Michael Flanagan
  • Mar 15, 2015

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, or so the old adage would have us believe. There is a worse fate, however: To be forgotten and fade into obscurity.

BARchive: Parade Day

BARchive: Parade Day

  • by Jim Stewart
  • Jun 24, 2014

We looked down Market Street toward the Ferry Building. Dykes On Bikes led off the first downtown Gay Freedom Day parade from Spear Street up Market toward the Civic Center. Gay Frontiers: Past, Present, Future.

BARchive :: Freedom

BARchive :: Freedom

  • by Jim Stewart
  • Jun 27, 2013

It was Gay Freedom Day; Sunday, June 27, 1976. Things were very different then; very different.

BARchive: Holiday Haunts

BARchive: Holiday Haunts

  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Dec 15, 2011

The winter holidays are the most obvious time of year when gays, separated from their parents, are forced to decide between biological family and acquired family.