Gay San Francisco as depicted by 1960s media.

[DJLunasf]

This is so funny and primative. lol. Thank god for intelligent modern society.

[BLACKFLANIGAN]

When San Francisco was Innocent......till the FAGS gave it a bad name!

[johnnystaccata]

I almost thought it was Baltimore. They had the Gayety and the Frolic on the block I believe.

The guy at the end really put it all together... "Oh God deliver us, Americans from evil". This has gone on too long. We need to find a cure for this.

[MelanieLouM]

So whats wrong with men being happy????? Get it? Gay? Happy? ^_^

[RandolphAgarn1]

Hysterical. I dont see how any of us came out to be normal gays with this nonsense out there.  I grew up gay in the 60 's and 70's and it was not easy.

[sudaev]

"Screaming queens", lol. Men dressed up as women, constantly getting into fights with each other, acting out, etc.  Sorry folks, that's a mental illness.

[dbcozy]

It's a shame similar programming isn't aired today. Instead, we're told homosexual scum is to be embraced and celebrated. Thank God for AIDS.

[RandolphAgarn1]

@dbcozy you are insane

[gopconservative78]

The city was later changed to San Homosexual.........

[exnihilo415]

@gopconservative78 That's why I moved here.

[Kornknealious]

SF in the 1960s had a population of just 100,000. So...90% of SF's population was gay according to the police?

[exnihilo415]

@Kornknealious Nope. The 1960 census had the population at 740,316.

[Kornknealious]

@exnihilo415

So, under 1,000,000 population.. right.... so the math still does not add up

[exnihilo415]

@Kornknealious I don't doubt that they were exaggerating the activity in the Tenderloin but 90K into 740K is 12%. It's not as if that's so far off the mark. Wiki lists the GLBT population of SF today to be 15% or 94,000.

[MerleOberon]

meet me at the Frolic Room

[123jumoliyo]

then they gave them aids

[TheTranceCartel]

"Turk and Taylor, Screaming queens had to be broken up at 2AM..."

Wow, not much has changed at all lol

[rowenalouisa]

I still struggle to understand the hypocrisy and the bigotry expressed by these so called 'Christians'. I thought that the religion was about kindness, acceptance, tolerance and charity - and yet all I see is the opposite. Maybe these people about whom I type should worry about their own eternal lives and leave everyone else to worry about theirs.

We don't need your abuse, your criticisms or your threats - but thanks for your concern.

[gayforlife2020]

Great video! I lived in the Tenderloin: yeah Turk & Taylor can get pretty wild, still. Just to get a glimpse of what was - the sense of bravado that gays/lesbians & friends had to demonstrate just to exist - that was worth the view. peace

[555paint]

yeah they show their true colors only at night....the good old days.

[555paint]

these were the good old days when the media wasn't affraid to call sickos and freaks what they were....now, the media is affraid of its own shadow.

[theperv01]

Tenderloin? Why not the bull queers? Greek hotspot roman pub hehe

[elenavlada]

WHY DO SOCIETY HATE LOVE?,

GAY IS JUST ABOUT A MAN TO MAN LOVE, OR A WOMAN TO WOMAN LOVE..NOTHING MORE NOTHING LESS.

[emmers57]

"The fleshy needs of men"

[clarkewi]

Believe me, they don't conceal it San Francisco anymore.

[skiluinamso]

the tenderloin district, lol; of course!!

[devaloki]

this type of mentality still exists in the world and america, it's just not blatantly spoken anymore, it's more subtle discrimination

[femguy]

....and this is the country that used to hang its black people from trees.welcome to america land of the free?

[gag75]

"It is a place of vice, degradation...and really great orgasms"

[49jubilee]

WOW---I miss the OLD RADIO SOUND of mens' broadcast voices

[bootes53]

Amazing how very little many people's attitudes have changed since then :(

[SuperAmos15]

Fuck George Putnam.

[TippingWater]

@SuperAmos15 Indeed , what a hateful individual . . .:|

[mee9mee9]

interesting....sanfrancisco was one the first cities where AIDS was discovered. if they knew then what we know now things could have been different

[largraf]

com/watch?v=_qxjocm5fCc Get ready San Francisco. Here it comes.

[madeinengland1968]

So a straight man= a man who, because he knows he might like it, is advised therefore to avoid all gay temptation at all cost? And avoid anything that might break his fragile 'straightness'.... Presumably therefore a gay man is one who is not scared about what he may or may not like and doesn't need to avoid or hide from anything.

[wrecktem]

@madeinengland1968

No, a BISEXUAL man is one who is not scared about what he may or may not like and doesn't need to avoid or hide from anything.

[madeinengland1968]

I love the admission here that straight men are susceptible to gay porn! So better for them to avoid it at all costs lest prolonged exposure perverts them! If only they had realised that they are suggesting here that all men have it in them LOL!

[GTCism]

It is interesting how lesbians are so accepted and gay men are treated like a disease. Mind you both are an abomination in God's eyes and will serve eternal damnation unless they over come their sin and walk away from it. Hate the sin, not the sinner...

[bobrec3GTI]

"human misery"

[Zezili]

that last bit's from an anti porn propaganda video

[NintendoDSVampire]

There were drag queens in the 50s and 60s? LOL!

Anyway, drag queens and transvestites deserve all the mistreatment that homosexuals get. They are retards.

[Simon5005]

@NintendoDSVampire Pretty brave there behind the safety of your keyboard, Miss NintendoDSVampire, aren't you? Stick to your video games, you ignorant child, because nobody really cares what you think about anything. Oh, and learn how to spell.

[NintendoDSVampire]

@Simon5005 You are an idiot. Pathetic too. I suggest you get a life and stop pretending like your big and tough on the internet. Wait, you might be one of the fags that walk around with women's clothes on.

[Simon5005]

@NintendoDSVampire Wow..........I have just been put in my place by a hate-spewing, video-game-playing loser who's parents, I'm sure, are in favor of abortion now. Enjoy life in the trailer park jerking off to your gay porn. In secret, of course!

[NintendoDSVampire]

@Simon5005 Wow, I have just been put in my place by a women's clothes wearing faggot.

[wrecktem]

@Simon5005

There is nothing shameful about living in a trailer park. I strongly support gay rights, but fuck you, you classist bigot.

[Simon5005]

@wrecktem LMAO...........wow, you really must have dug deep looking for something to take offense at. Feel better now? Better check the tires on your home.

[wrecktem]

@Simon5005

As I said, I am the utmost supporter of LGBT causes. Yet when you yourself proceed to make deliberately hateful comments about socioeconomically disadvantaged persons, you're showing yourself to be absolutely no better than the supposed trailer trash you so dearly hate. You've become that very thing you hate. The next time someone calls you a "stupid faggot" or the like, remember this...sadly, your hypocritical, bigoted behaviour may have actually justified such an accusation.

[Simon5005]

@wrecktem I never said I hated anyone or anything. I was merely responding to a disrespectful child who was obviously raised by morons, and you decided to take offense at one indirect statement. But thanks for the dimestore analysis, anyway.

[VegansTasteLikeBacon]

Mmmmmmm......I can smell the sin through my computer screen, and it's makin' me a l'il moist...down there.

[lzambeni1]

Was this from a documentary on KQED? I saw the KQED logo near the end.

[jonrendell]

@lzambeni1 YEP! The KQED program was called "Screaming Queens"

[Damis06]

Way to appeal to the lowest common denominator....mentioning God and evilllll.....too bad for this guy science and civil rights trump this propaganda in much of today's society.

[NintendoDSVampire]

@Damis06 Actually no. Science hasn't trumped anything. So I have no idea wth your talking about.

[raulanthony]

hilarious

[peerkbh]

Am travelling 16 hours and going to San Francisco for the second time in my life later this year. And guess what: I was queer decades before I even heard of the Castro.

[19996669991]

1:41 So basically even if you're not queer the men in the mags are so hot that you'll turn queer after turning the last page? Lol.

[blueberrysouffle]

Good ol' Turk and Taylor.

[CoverButton]

Thats just FAB !

[dillonmrtn]

Love the history of my hood!

[swampzoid]

screaming queens - i love it.

[oldmoviemusic]

Wow, am I ever glad times have changed!

[happymlk]

.....from E-vil. (aaaand fade out)

[JKVmanVideo]

"A marketplace of vice and degradation" sounds like fun!

[ShitFromShinolla]

Amen!

[marlonbrando01]

haha lame