War Memorial Opera House Japanese sneak attack and bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, marking the American entry into World War II in December 1941, the households was regularly blacked out and performances were monitored by air raid wardens. In spring of 1945, the United Nations had its San Francisco Conference (UN Conference on International Organization) first organizing assembly there. The UN Charter was later drafted and signed in the Herbst Theatre next door. Six years later in 1951, the Treaty of San Francisco, declaring peace with Japan was drafted and signed here and in the Herbst Theatre. During the years of Kurt Herbert Adler's
LGBT culture in San Francisco gay bar owners in 1962 as a response to continued police harassment and closing of gay bars (including the Tay-Bush Inn raid), and continued until 1995. San Francisco became linked with the LGBT community in the media as a result of a June 1964 "Life" article, "Gay San Francisco," which stated that San Francisco was the "gay capital of America." The Society for Individual Rights (SIR), founded in San Francisco in 1964, published the magazine "Vector" and became within two years the largest homophile organization in the United States. SIR focused on community building, public identity and legal and social