But it represented a dark chapter in the history of same-sex rights.
Artie began to press me to come up with a new symbol for what he had called “the dawn of a new gay consciousness and freedom.” Both he and Harvey had brought this up to me before.Īt this point, the pink triangle was the symbol for the gay movement. After the movie, we all walked over to Civic Center Plaza to look at the neoclassic buildings. One day, we went to the Strand Theater on Market Street to see Citizen Kane. We went to see films several times a week. My friend Artie Bressan, Jr., was a filmaker who had just made a documentary of the 1977 Parade, titled “Gay USA.” He was a wild visionary who directed porn on the side to finance his 35mm documentaries. “To get over Tandy, I devoted myself further to activism and went to the movies. Here Gilbert recalls an evening with his friends Cleve Jones and filmmaker Artie Bressan in early 1978, after his Christmas breakup with Tandy Belew.
