Homosexuality was illegal then and being ‘found out’ could literally ruin your lives, but between 1950’s and the 1960’s there were 25 gay bars in the City. The film begins after World War II when San Diego was a major naval and military base, and even though heterosexual serviceman couldn’t wait to rush back home to their families, gay men and women were enjoying the freedom they had begun to experience away from traditional family lives and they did not want to leave the area. It is a story that seems to be the same in other urban areas in the US in the recent past. Filmmaker Paul Detwiler looks at the history of the San Diego gay bars in his new documentary.