![]() ![]() ![]() Gender stereotypes: Over-generalizations about the characteristics of an entire group based on gender. Gender roles: A set of social and cultural beliefs or expectations about appropriate behavior for men/boys or women/girls. Some women would attend, they would dress up as men. California Gold Rush: A period of time when thousands of migrants arrived in California to mine and search for gold. "But in San Francisco where there were some women around, and women's clothing was in circulation, a lot of men would dress up, kind of in full drag, and to attend to these masquerade balls. "One thing that was happening early on in the Gold Rush, really the early 1850s, there were these masquerade balls, these really infamous dances that took place around here," said Sears. But in the city's raucous Barbary Coast, there is clear evidence that same-sex relationships and gender-nonconforming behavior were happening. Sears notes we can't put modern labels on people at the time, calling them gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, because such terms didn't exist at the time. So a lot of opportunities kind of opened up in that space for a wide-range of cross-gender practices and same-sex intimacy." She went on to say, "They had to really figure out how to organize their social lives, their domestic lives, and their sexual lives in the virtual absence of women. "It's not the sort of thing that you would write home about, but fortunately we have things like diaries, court records," she said. ![]() Johnson says documenting the lives of LGBTQ+ 49ers isn't easy. "What we know is that they were probably quite common, but we don't have the documentation to say how common," said Susan Lee Johnson, author of "Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush." Murphy’s portrayal is said to be astonishing (Oscar-worthy is the buzz). Most didn't find gold, but many found comfort in same-sex relationships. 3:55 Share This Video Clip Add to Playlist Clipping Guide Description In 1824 gold was discovered in California sparking the California Gold Rush. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/BBC/Caryn Mandabach Productions Ltd 2019. Men (and some women) dropped everything to get rich. When gold was discovered in California, the world rushed west. The social structure of the mining camps and boomtowns paved the way for "intimate relationships" stories lost to time, until now. Ninety percent of these new emigrants were men. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) - When the Gold Rush struck California in 1849, the state was flooded with people from all over the world. Many people moved to California during the Gold Rush, and LGBTQ+ people likely found new sexual freedom in relationships among the same-sex. ![]()
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