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These Incredible Gay Home Movies Bring The Past To Life<\/b><\/p>\n

\"gay-home-movie-1940s\"<\/p>\n

We regularly marvel at how snapshots of LGBTQ life from the past are able to do what even the most impassioned history lesson cannot — provide a relatable visual texture to the lives we might have led had we entered the world at a different blip in time.<\/p>\n

Movies are even more immersive for obvious reasons, however few and far between.<\/p>\n

In a recent New Yorker<\/em><\/a> piece, a treasure trove of queer cultural preservation is profiled, starting with the personal home video<\/a> collection of Harold O’Neal, who was born in 1910 and spent much of his life in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Related: PHOTOS: These Vintage Gay Pride Photos Are Absolutely Everything<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Harold was a rehabilitation officer for the Veterans Administration and later worked in personnel for the Army Corps of Engineers, and like many gay<\/a> men<\/a> and women<\/a> of his time, led a very different private life than the one he broadcast publicly.<\/p>\n

Also an amateur filmmaker, over the years he recorded the fabric of his hidden-in-plain-sight life — the parties, the drag shows, the intimate moments with his partner. These things we take for granted today, but were still somewhat radical in the ’40s and ’50s.<\/p>\n

Related: PHOTOS: Vintage Gay Couples Help Preserve Our Vibrant Queer History<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The clips spent decades tucked away in boxes in O’Neal’s home, until he responded to a documentary filmmaker’s request for footage of the Castro. While the filmmaker ultimately only used a few brief clips of O’Neal’s, he recognized the historical value of the deeply personal collection.<\/p>\n

Now the movies live<\/a> at the G.L.B.T. Historical Society, and you can watch a couple<\/a> of them, as well as some other archival gems from other sources, below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Sunbathing in Vallejo, 1947:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Watch this on The Scene<\/span>.<\/a><\/div>\n

2. Houseparty, 1946:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Watch this on The Scene<\/span>.<\/a><\/div>\n

3. San Francisco lesbian<\/a> bar Mona’s Candle Light around 1950 (discovered in an unmarked can at a San Jose flea market):<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Watch this on The Scene<\/span>.<\/a><\/div>\n

4. Tape from the collection of author Allan Bérubé of Garrisson von Habsburg, San Francisco, 1991. Garrison died two years later at the age of 29:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Watch this on The Scene<\/span>.<\/a><\/div>\n

Head here to read the full, very worthwhile New Yorker<\/em> piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n<\/a> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n

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