The retrospective story section of the San Diego Reader magazine, dubbed “Back When” and featuring local news stories celebrating a significant anniversary, carried a 35-year-old clip celebrating the San Diego gay community.
Described as “one of the most conservative and low key in the country,” San Diego’s LGBT community circa 1986 created what the Reader described as a “rallying point” when, on March 25 of that year, the San Diego State University student council voted 24-4 to prohibit military recruiters from using student property in response to the government’s anti-gay discriminatory policies.
The Reader explains that the SDSU vote was “among the first of its kind in the nation” and that a spokesperson for the New York-based National Gay Council said he has “never heard of anything quite like this before.”
Thanks , San Diego Reader, for a slice of local LGBT history.
