by Alia Volz
The Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse. Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding, March 1972, http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/nc/ncchap2_42.htm.
Sloman, Larry “Ratso.” Reefer Madness: A History of Marijuana. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998.
State of Wisconsin v. Meridy B. Domnitz, Case No. 2–95998 and H-296 (Wis. 1969), records from August 21, December 3, 8, 12, and 18, 1969; January 6 and 26, March 3, 9, 10, and 20, 1970.
The War at Home. Brown, Barry Alexander and Glenn Silber. Wisconsin Public Television, 1979.
Talbot, David. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love. New York: Free Press, 2013.
Velasquez-Manoff, Moises. “Can CBD Really Do All That? How One Molecule from the Cannabis Plant Came to Be Seen as a Therapeutic Cure-all.” New York Times, May 14, 2019.
Chapter 2: The Hand
AB489, California Consenting Adult Sex Bill (Ca. 1975), http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/Archives/1975-CA-Consenting-Adults-Act/1975-AB489-CA-Consenting-Adults-Act.pdf.
Abramson, Mark. Sex, Drugs & Disco: San Francisco Diaries from the Pre-AIDS era. San Francisco: Wilde City Press, 2015.
Budman, K.B. “A First Report of the Impact of California’s New Marijuana Law, SB 95.” California Office of Narcotics and Drug Abuse. Sacramento, January 1977, https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/45532NCJRS.pdf.
Cothran, George. “Barbagelata’s Return?” SF Weekly, November 18, 1998, https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/cothran/Content?oid=2135846.
Flanagan, Michael. “When Polk Street Exploded: Tear gas, murder and the tradition of the Halloween buses.” Bay Area Reporter, October 24, 2018.
Guinn, Jeff. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Hinckle, Warren. Gayslayer!: The Story of How Dan White Killed Harvey Milk and George Moscone & Got Away with Murder. Virginia City, Nevada: Silver Dollar Books, 1979.
Kerr, Breena. “San Francisco’s Historic Tenderloin May Become World’s First Official Trans District.” YES!, February, 9, 2017.
Maley, Bridget. “Three Temples on Geary: Three bridges, two earthquakes and one zealot.” The New Fillmore, December 2018.
San Francisco Examiner, November 9, 1975; March 14 and 21, 1976.
San Francisco Chronicle, September 19 and December 14, 1975; January 9, April 13, and July 25, 1976.
San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, July 25, 1976.
The San Francisco Street Artists Movement collection. Courtesy of the Bay Area Television Archive at San Francisco State University, https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/11394.
Sears, Clare. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. London: Duke University Press, 2015.
Shilts, Randy. The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
Talbot, David. “The Peoples Temple’s Roots in the Fillmore: Jim Jones moved into the neighborhood at its most vulnerable moment.” The New Fillmore, September 2013, http://newfillmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2013_09.pdf.
Talbot, Season of the Witch.
Thompson, Walter. “How Urban Renewal Tried to Rebuild the Fillmore.” Hoodline, January 10, 2016.
Turner, Wallace. “An Antipolitician Politician Almost Makes It in San Francisco.” New York Times, December 13 and 14, 1975.
Wilhelm, Richard. The I Ching or Book of Changes. Translated by Cary F. Baynes. 3rd ed. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1967.
The Zebra Murders Collection. Courtesy of the Bay Area Television Archive at San Francisco State University, https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/230807.
Chapter 3: If All the World’s a Stage
Campbell, Patricia J. Passing the Hat: Street Performers in America. New York: Delacorte Press, 1981.
Coyote, Sleeping Where I Fall.
Fosburgh, Lacey. “Alcatraz, Now Empty, Silent and Desolate, Is Opened to the Public.” New York Times, October 27, 1973.
Lee, Smoke Signals.
San Francisco Examiner, August 17, 1986.
Stack, Peter. “WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Catching Up With More Local Legends. Find out whatever happened to Phyllis Diller, Eddie Fisher, others.” SFGate.com, September 26, 1999, https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/WHERE-ARE-THEY-NOW-Catching-Up-With-More-Local-2906483.php.
Pollack, Lisa. “Happy Feat; If ever a record was made to be broken, it seems, it’s the one for long-distance tap dancing. A shuffle through 16 years of agony, ecstasy and snappy choreography.” Baltimore Sun, August 3, 1999.
Talbot, Season of the Witch.
Tomashoff, Craig. “The ABCs of CBD.” The Complete Guide to Medical Marijuana, January 2019.
Werner, Clint. Marijuana: Gateway to Health. San Francisco: Dachstar Press, 2011.
Chapter 4: September’s Song
Budman, K.B. “A First Report of the Impact of California’s New Marijuana Law (SB 95).” California Office of Narcotics and Drug Abuse. Sacramento, January 1977.
Coyote, Sleeping Where I Fall.
Lee, Smoke Signals.
Lloyd, Pamela. The Book of Pot. New York: The Ridge Press/A & W Visual Library, 1976.
Raphael, Ray. Cash Crop: An American Dream. Mendocino, CA: The Ridge Times Press, 1985.
Richardson, Jim. Photographs by Arik Woods. Sinsemilla: Marijuana Flowers. Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1976.
San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 1977.
Chapter 5: The Touch
Beren, Peter, and Patricia Roberto. “Zodiac Politics.” Mother Jones, August 1976.
San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 1976.
San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, February 8, 1976.
Chapter 6: A Zillion and One Raindrops
Gilliam, Harold. Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.
San Francisco Chronicle, May 28, December 26 and 30, 1976; January 1 and 11, 1977.
San Francisco Examiner, August 3, 1973.
Chapter 7: The Power at Hand
Bay Area Reporter, September 30, 1976; October 13, 1977.
Blando, Sandy. “An American Guru.” Psychic Times, March 1974.
Caldwell, Earl. “Unlikely Sheriff Elected on Coast.” New York Times, November 7, 1971.
Kean, Sam. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Perry, The Haight-Ashbury.
San Francisco Chronicle. May 5, 1977; October 27, 1987; February 14, 1988.
San Francisco Examiner, January 9, 1972.
“Sheriff Richard Hongisto, the Notable Exception.” History of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, http://www.sfsdhistory.com/eras/sheriff-richard-hongisto-the-notable-exception.
Sides, Josh. Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Talbot, Season of the Witch.
Chapter 8: Going Round the Bed
Family archives.
Chapter 9: Kings and Queens
Gómez, Abel R. “San Francisco Pride, Nation’s Largest LGBT Celebration, Takes Place on Indigenous Ohlone Land.” Noteworthy—The Journal Blog, June 3, 2019, https://blog.usejournal.com/san-francisco-pride-nations-largest-lgbt-celebration-takes-place-on-indigenous-ohlone-land-dd4475f47fd5.
“The Gurdjieff Foundation.” Gurdjieff International Review, February 8, 2019, https://www.gurdjieff.org/foundation.htm.
San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 1975; May 5, 6, and 26, 1977; November 18, 1998.
San Francisco Examiner, May 1 and 15, 1977.
Sides, Erotic City.
Stark, James. Punk ’77: An Inside Look at the San Francisco Rock n’ Roll Scene 1977. 3rd ed. San Francisco: RE/Search, 2006.
Why I Ride: Low and Slow. Directed by
Debra Koffler and Vero Majano. Posted to YouTube in September 2011, Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFRk5Is6qYo, Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zGsecld5IU, Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61HPYBPRMdw.
Chapter 10: Ride That Brownie
Abramson, Sex, Drugs & Disco.
Bay Area Reporter, February 5, 1976; June 9 and 23, October 13, 1977.
Berube, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. New York: The Free Press, 1990.
Birdsall, John. “The Orange Juice Boycott That Changed America.” Extra Crispy, February 6, 2018, https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/the-orange-juice-boycott-that-changed-america.
Black, Jason Edward, and Charles E. Morris III, eds. An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2013.
The Cockettes. Directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber. Culver City: Strand Releasing, 2002.
Durham, Michael. “Homosexuals in revolt: The year that one liberation movement turned militant.” LIFE: The Year in Pictures 1971, December 31, 1971.
Faderman, Lillian. Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death. First edition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.
Gamson, Joshua. The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, The Music, The Seventies in San Francisco. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006.
Havemann, Ernest. “Why?” LIFE, June 26, 1964.
“Heaven Is on Her Side, Says Anita Bryant, and There’s No Sympathy Up There for Gays.” People, June 6, 1977.
Hinckle, Gayslayer!
“Hot Flash Store and Wakefield Poole Interview.” Eric Smith, KPIX Eyewitness News. April 16, 1976. Courtesy of the Bay Area Television Archive at San Francisco State University, https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/201667.
Jones, Cleve. When We Rise: My Life in the Movement. New York: Hachette Books, 2016.
Lagos, Marisa. “Twin Peaks Tavern—Gay Bar, Historic Landmark.” SFGate.com, January 19, 2013, https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Twin-Peaks-Tavern-gay-bar-historic-landmark-4208442.php.
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco: The Castro. Directed by Peter L. Stein. San Francisco: KQED, 1998.
Poole, Wakefield. Dirty Poole: The Autobiography of a Gay Porn Pioneer. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2000.
San Francisco Chronicle, January 13 and September 23, 1976; May 28, June 8, June 11, June 15, and August 4, 1977; January 3, 1978; August 31, 2018; April 12, 2019.
San Francisco Examiner, June 12, 1977.
Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street.
Sides, Erotic City.
Stryker, Susan. “San Francisco.” GLBTQ Archives, 2004, http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/san_francisco_S.pdf.
Talbot, Season of the Witch.
The Times of Harvey Milk. Directed by Robert Epstein. TC Films International, 1984.
We Were Here. Directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber. Los Angeles: Red Flag Releasing, 2011.
Welch, Paul. “The ‘Gay’ World Takes to the City Streets.” LIFE, June 26, 1964.
Chapter 11: Child of Life’s Long Labor
Bay Area Reporter. October 13 and 27, November 10, 1977.
Black and Morris, eds. An Archive of Hope.
Cannon, Lou. “San Francisco’s Moscone Is Buoyed by Vote of Confidence in Bitter Election.” Washington Post, August 4, 1977.
Faderman, Harvey Milk.
Friess, Steve. “The First Openly Gay Person to Win an Election in America Was Not Harvey Milk.” Bloomberg.com, December 11, 2015, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-12-11/the-first-openly-gay-person-to-win-an-election-in-america-was-not-harvey-milk.
Guinn, The Road to Jonestown.
Herbert, Frank. Dune. New York: Ace, 2010.
Jones, When We Rise.
Kilduff, Marshall, and Phil Tracy. “Inside Peoples Temple.” New West, August 1, 1977.
Lee, Smoke Signals.
Rathbun, Mary, and Dennis Peron. Brownie Mary’s Marijuana Cookbook & Dennis Peron’s Recipe for Social Change. San Francisco: Trail of Smoke Publishing, 1996.
“Sheriff Richard Hongisto, the Notable Exception.” History of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, http://www.sfsdhistory.com/eras/sheriff-richard-hongisto-the-notable-exception.
San Francisco Chronicle. July 25, 1976; August 2 and 4, September 6, and November 9, 1977; October 13, 1979; June 20, 1983; September 19, 2015.
San Francisco Examiner. May 15, July 17, and August 7, 1977.
The San Francisco Policeman, March 21, 1978.
San Francisco Voter Information Pamphlet. Special Election, August 2, 1977. SFPL Elections Collection, https://sfpl.org/pdf/main/gic/elections/August2_1977.pdf.
Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street.
Talbot, Season of the Witch.
Chapter 12: Galen’s Batch
Family archives.
Chapter 13: The Devil’s Playground
Bentley, Kevin. Wild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries and After. San Francisco: Green Candy Press, 2002.
“Bournegate Rocks Capitol: White House Dope Scandal.” High Times, November 1978.
California Consenting Adult Sex Bill (AB489, 1975), http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/Archives/1975-CA-Consenting-Adults-Act/1975-AB489-CA-Consenting-Adults-Act.pdf.
Dokoupil, Tony. The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana. New York: Anchor Books, 2015.
January 19, 1978: State of the Union Address. Miller Center, https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/january-19-1978-state-union-address.
Faderman, Harvey Milk.
Gettman, Jon, Ph.D. “Crimes of Indiscretion: Marijuana Arrests in the United States.” National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, 2005, https://norml.org/pdf_files/NORML_Crimes_of_Indiscretion.pdf.
Jones, When We Rise.
Lee, Smoke Signals.
Maupin, Armistead. Tales of the City. New York: Harper Perennial, 2007.
Rathbun and Peron. Brownie Mary’s Marijuana Cookbook & Dennis Peron’s Recipe for Social Change.
San Francisco Chronicle, August 4, 1977; January 10, 1978.
Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street.
Stark, Punk ’77.
Stryker, Susan. Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution. 2nd ed. New York: Seal Press, 2017.
Wooten, James T. “Carter Seeks to End Marijuana Penalty for Small Amounts.” New York Times, August 3, 1977.
Chapter 14: Off My Cloud
Abramson, Sex, Drugs & Disco.
Barbash, Fred. “Carter Aide Bourne Resigns Over False Prescription.” Washington Post, July 21, 1978.
Bay Area Reporter, August 31, 1978.
“Bournegate Rocks Capitol: White House Dope Scandal.” High Times, November 1978.
Dokoupil, The Last Pirate.
Faderman, Harvey Milk.
Gamson, The Fabulous Sylvester.
“Heaven Is on Her Side, Says Anita Bryant, and There’s No Sympathy Up There for Gays.” People, June 6, 1977.
Hinckle, Gayslayer!
Kelley, Ken. “Cruising with Anita.” Playboy, May 1978.
Poole, Dirty Poole.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 10 and 20, August 10, November 5, 1978.
School Employees. Homosexuality. California Proposition 6 (1978). http://repository.uchastings.edu/ca_ballot_props/838.
Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street.
Talbot, Season of the Witch.
Chapter 15: Paint It Black
A Closer Look. “Moscone/Milk Assassinations.” Television special report. Belva Davis, KQED, November 27, 1978. Courtesy of the Bay Area Television Archive at San Francisco State University, https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/235960.
Abramson, Sex, Drugs & Disco.
Bay Area Reporter, August 31 and November 9, 1978.
Faderman, Harvey Milk.
Guinn, The Road to Jonestown.
Hinckle, Gayslayer!
Jones, When We Rise
.
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco: The Castro. Directed by Peter L. Stein. San Francisco: KQED, 1998.
San Francisco Chronicle, May 7, August 10, September 12, November 8, 18, 20, 21, 25, and 28, 1978.
San Francisco Examiner, November 19, 1978.
San Francisco Voter Information Pamphlet, General Election, November 7, 1978, https://sfpl.org/pdf/main/gic/elections/November7_1978short.pdf.
School Employees. Homosexuality. California Proposition 6 (1978), http://repository.uchastings.edu/ca_ballot_props/838.
Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street.
Talbot, Season of the Witch.
The Times of Harvey Milk. Directed by Robert Epstein. TC Films International, 1984.
Chapter 16: No Peace
Abramson, Sex, Drugs & Disco.
Bay Area Reporter, April 12, 1979; May 24, 1979; June 7, 1979.
Black and Morris, eds. An Archive of Hope.
Faderman, Harvey Milk.
“Gay Police Recruits.” KQED News, June 19, 1979, https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189498.
Gilbreth, Edward M. “Forgotten Stonewall Riots Changed Society. Post and Courier, September 2, 2014, https://www.postandcourier.com/news/forgotten-stonewall-riots-changed-society/article_1269d59a-a2c0-5b82-a4c1-ce87ec85029c.html.
Grabowicz, Paul. “Anti-Gay Sentiments Turn Violent In Aftermath of Moscone-Milk Killings.” Washington Post, May 12, 1979
Hinckle, Gayslayer!
Jones, When We Rise.
Mikkelson, David. “The Twinkie Defense.” Snopes.com, Oct. 30, 1999, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-twinkie-defense/.
