Read the text from the special reports below:ĭuring the past six months or so, several of us here at Channel 7 have been focusing our attention on the homosexual community of the Bay Area especially San Francisco, with the hope of presenting for you a report that would shed some light on the darkness of the gay scene and generally show that people of homosexual persuasion are no different except in their sexual preference. Watch the video above for the ABC7 special reports presented as they aired in 1976. "BAY GAYS" was shocking for its time and is stunning still today for how many of the issues still exist. Though the series focuses only gay men, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people were also fighting their own battles for public acceptance. The language used in this special has evolved over the years. Before Harvey Milk was elected supervisor, before the White Night riots that followed his death, before HIV and AIDS devastated a community, before same-sex marriage was legal. ![]() ![]() The four part series starts before the rainbow flag was a a symbol for a united community.
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