Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965

Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts to 1965 when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant milieu that fueled this era Nan Alamilla Boyd examines the culture that developed around the bar scene and homophile activism. She argues that the communities forged inside bars and taverns functioned politically and ultimately offered practical and ideological responses to the policing of San Francisco's queer and transgender communities. Using police and court records oral histories tourist literature and manuscript collections from local and state archives Nan Alamilla Boyd explains the phenomenal growth of San Francisco as a "wide-open town"--a town where anything goes. She also relates the early history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement that took place in San Francisco prior to 1965.
Wide-Open Town argues that police persecution forged debates about rights and justice that transformed San Francisco's queer communities into the identity-based groups we see today. In its vivid re-creation of bar and drag life its absorbing portrait of central figures in the communities and its provocative chronicling of this period in the country's most transgressive city Wide-Open Town offers a fascinating and lively new chapter of American queer history.[]

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The Boy Behind the Gate: How His Dream of Sailing Around the World Became a Six-Year Odyssey of Adventure Fear Discovery and Love

FOLLOW THE GLOBAL SAILING ADVENTURES OF JULIA AND HER CREW AS THEY DISCOVER THE WORLD AND THEMSELVES

With his first mate and crew amateur sailor Larry Jacobson embarked on a lifelong goal to circumnavigate the globe. The namesake boy behind the gate is a passionate romantic who since childhood yearned to discover what's out there ... .

How do some people overcome fears and insecurities to manifest their dreams? What are the characteristics that allow them to completely transform their lives from one of stability to one of uncertainty and adventure? Don't we all entertain ideas of reinventing ourselves of having a chance to do it differently and by our own rules?

Willing to risk all Jacobson spent six years sailing into the unknown where the unrelenting oceans served as a teacher of seamanship personal strength and perseverance.

In "The Boy Behind the Gate" the author reveals those crucial steps that will motivate you to make your dreams come true. We are each given one great opportunity at life. What are you going to do with yours?[]

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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City

An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet the fifth in her series of Asian travels and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa Tibet's forbidden city.

In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. With the help of her young companion Yongden she willingly suffered the primitive travel conditions frequent outbreaks of disease the ever–present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal.

The determination and sheer physical fortitude it took for this woman delicately reared in Paris and Brussels is inspiration for men and women alike.

David–Neel is famous for being the first Western woman to have been received by any Dalai Lama and as a passionate scholar and explorer of Asia hers is one of the most remarkable of all travellersߴales.

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