Christmas in San Francisco, December 1891
Pictured is Christmas in San Francisco, featuring an image of my grandmother Agnes Lilly Tillmann (1889-1982) sitting on a rocking horse in front of an authentic Victorian Christmas tree inside the Howard street mansion of her maternal grandfather Claus Mangels. I date the image to December 1891 based on all the kids’ ages. Agnes Lilly…
Fred Tillman — Growing Up Gay in San Francisco
What does a “homosexual” look like? “And then there was another family friend — Fred Tillman, our neighbor across the stream at Aptos — but he didn’t ‘look’ like a homosexual; he was big and burly, he lifted weights…. ‘Fred was a pansy — Fred was a queer,’ Daddy interjected.” Excerpt from Patricia Bosworth’s Anything…
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