Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. “Sleeping Beauty”: Be enchanted with this 1959 animation classic in which Maleficent places a curse on Princess Aurora. Walt Disney Family Museum, 104 Montgomery St. Musee Mecanique: Once located underneath the Cliff House restaurant, this classic collection of vintage arcade machines, mechanical musical equipment and other wonderful machinery is the best reason to visit Fisherman’s Wharf. Free, Pier 45 at the end of Taylor Street, SF. “The Dinosaurs of Comedy”: Their DNA carefully preserved in amber, the Dinosaurs of Comedy include Johnny Steele, Larry “Bubbles” Brown and Michael Meehan - who all worked in the Golden Age 1980s/early 1990s local scene. They’ll perform at the legendary Punch Line. “Elisheva Biernoff: Paintings”: Uncanny technical skill combined with an eye for the telling emotional detail mark the unveiling of this artist’s exacting replicas of old snapshots. “The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll”: A lively exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential moments in a movement that shaped a generation - and it happened in San Francisco. De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., S.F. “Road to Morocco”: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour star in this comedy classic, the No. The Stanford Theatre, 221 University Ave., Palo Alto. As historian Lillian Faderman commented, “Never in history had so many gay and lesbian people come together in one place and for a common endeavor.” The annual March contributed greatly to solidifying the significance of Stonewall in LGBT history.Marga Gomez: The popular Bay Area comedian, whom The Chronicle has called “salaciously surreal” and who has been seen on HBO and Showtime, performs at Feinstein’s at the Nikko. This incredibly brave, for the time, public march ended up attracting thousands of participants, much to the surprise of the organizers. From Greenwich Village they followed a route up Sixth Avenue to Central Park, where the march ended with a “Gay-In” in the Sheep Meadow. The marchers first gathered on Washington Place between Sheridan Square and Sixth Avenue. The march ended up taking place on a Sunday, June 28, so that more people could participate. We propose a nationwide show of support.”Īll at the meeting voted in favor except for Mattachine Society of New York, which abstained. We also propose that we contact Homophile organizations throughout the country and suggest that they hold parallel demonstrations on that day. In attendance were Ellen Broidy, Linda Rhodes, and other members of the newly formed Gay Liberation Front, and activist Foster Gunnison, Jr.Īt the final annual Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO) in Philadelphia, on November 2, 1969, the following resolution was proposed on behalf of Rodwell, representing the Homophile Youth Movement, and Broidy, of NYU’s Student Homophile League: “That the Annual Reminder, in order to be more relevant, reach a greater number of people, and encompass the ideas and ideals of the larger struggle in which we are engaged – that of our fundamental human rights – be moved both in time and location.” It continued:įinally: “No dress or age regulations shall be made for this demonstration.
In October, in Rodwell’s and his boyfriend Fred Sargeant’s apartment at 350 Bleecker Street, meetings were held to discuss an action to replace the Reminder Days. It was clear that the events at Stonewall had already changed things. Rodwell chartered a bus of younger people from New York, who joined the Philadelphia demonstration but did not adhere to the strict conservative dress code, nor did they follow the “orderly” rules of conduct of previous years. The last Reminder Day took place on July 4, 1969, only one day after the end of the Stonewall uprising. Among the earliest significant LGBT protests in the United States, these were held to highlight the community’s lack of basic civil rights. Rodwell had been an organizer of the annual Fourth of July Reminder Day demonstrations in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, from 1965 to 1969. At the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising on Sunday, June 28, 1970, a group headed by Craig Rodwell, owner of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, led what became the first annual NYC Pride March (then known as the Christopher Street Liberation Day March).