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Descriptive Summary
Title:
Buzz Bense records of the 890 Folsom clubhouse
Dates:
1984-1991
Collection number:
1991-26
Creator:
Bense, Bernard G.
Collection Size:
0.4 linear feet (1 box)
Repository:
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94105
Abstract:
Records of a variety of primarily gay male sex clubs that did business in a building rented and manged by California Certified Sex Educator Buzz (Bernard G.) Bense. The buidling was located at 890-894 Folsom Street in San Francisco. Bense leased and opened the building in 1986, and closed it in 1991 after it was sold by its owners. Legal documents, correspondence, public hearing documents, newsletters, publicity fliers, and other printed ephemera document groups holding events at the clubhouse, especially JO Buddies, business issues, and police harrassment after the closure of San Francisco bathhouses in the wake of the AIDS epidemic.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
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