Two drag queens who performed in San Francisco 70 years apart: Les-Lee worked at Finocchio’s in the '50s and Betty Fresas can be seen on Bay stages now.
This week on the Queer Power Hour: we’re getting ready for Valentines. Out in the Bay revisits an interview from 2014 with Ann Bannon, who wrote lesbian pulp fiction in the 50s and 60s and Making Gay History looks back an interview with the original straight ally: Pauline Philips aka Dear Abby.
While a young housewife and mom in the 1950s and ’60s, Ann Bannon wrote lusty lesbian love stories. Scorned by the literary elite then, her and other authors’ “pulp fiction” paperbacks helped advance queer rights and now offer a glimpse of gay and lesbian life in those times.
Thousands of LGBTQ activists from around the United States will descend upon San Francisco for the National LGBTQ Task Force’s 35th annual Creating Change conference.