“San Francisco in the 1970s”—a photographic exhibition featuring the photos of Jerry Pritikin, and sponsored by Roosevelt University’s Office of the President and the College of Arts and Sciences—is currently being exhibited at Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan.
Photographed by Pritikin—a Chicago publicist, gay-rights activist and Chicago Cubs fan known as the “Bleacher Preacher”—the exhibit features photos of gay life in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, which was an epicenter for the gay-rights movement prior to the AIDS epidemic of the ’80s.
Pritikin, who moved from Chicago during the early 1960s to be part of San Francisco’s growing gay community, documented the rising movement with candid shots.
The exhibit runs through Friday, Aug. 13. Visit www.roosevelt.edu/gagegallery or jerrypritikin.blogspot.com, or call 312-341-6458.