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Notes and Reading:

  • Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from “Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation’s Second Oldest Gay Bar” by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse’s website.

  • “Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco’s Gay Bars, 1950-1968,” by Christopher Agee.

  • June Thomas’ series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back.

  • Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse’s 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com

  • Michael Bronski’s A Queer History of the United States.

  • Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay’s writing.

  • Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30’s multiple times because it’s amazing.

Music

  • We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero.

  • Hit Anne Muller’s Walzer fur Robert a couple of times.

  • Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church.

  • We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating.

  • We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw

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A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)
Radically Gay : Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder