We Were Here Page #3

village all these years.

"This... This

is gonna be amazing. "

And I went down,

and, yeah, as you know...

It's, like, one block long...

And, like, a block

in either direction.

And, like, there were

a lot of gay men.

And, as with

any group of people...

It was already pretty quickly

falling into little cliques.

You know, there was, like,

this kind of military look...

And the kind of the...

The outdoorsmen look...

And there was a preppy look...

And there was already this,

like, kind of western look...

And a leather look.

It was already

starting to happen.

People quickly identifying

as certain male images...

And i, you know,

i just didn't, like, fit in.

There wasn't, like,

a long-Haired...

High-Voiced basketball look,

or something, you know?

I was just kind of me.

I mean, I tried.

I would go and pick up guys

and bring them home...

And, like,

they would want to go.

From zero to 60 so fast.

I couldn't do it.

I was terrible

at anonymous sex.

I didn't know how to go,

like...

"all right. "

You know, I just...

I couldn't do it.

I was like, "hi, my name's ed.

Who are you?"

You know, and it just...

It didn't...

it didn't click.

- I tend to be somebody

who has a partner.

Almost my whole life...

But I've always been

in open relationships...

So my sexual outlet

was always the bath houses...

And they were there,

and they were fun.

And I would go

with my friends.

It wasn't, like,

something I would sneak out.

And go on my own.

It was... It was something

of an outing.

We would go with friends.

I remember coming out

of one bath house...

At, like,

3:
00 in the morning...

And walking home across the city

in the middle of the night...

And just thinking...

"Gee, if my mother

could see me now...

She'd be just shocked,"

But it just felt so good.

It was, like, a club...

And we... We called it church.

It was going to church.

- Part of it,

you're having sex to have fun.

Part of it,

you're having sex to find love.

Part of it,

you're having sex to, uh...

...to... To rebel

against the people.

Who said

you couldn't have sex.

All of america

was feeling very confident.

That you could be

much more sexual...

And that was okay.

Venereal diseases

and unwanted pregnancies...

It's all curable

with a shot or a pill.

Or something to that effect.

It's may of 1979...

And the verdict has come down...

A verdict on dan white

for the murder of harvey milk...

And we're all at city hall

protesting.

There's this enormous rage.

Thousands of people arrive.

The police attack.

We're tear-Gassed,

we're beaten.

Police cars are burned.

So this is not a community.

That's feeling really good about

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