We just got sent this video in connection with a party happening tonight at Public Works called SPKR: Evolution of the Queer Dancefloor -- it's a benefit for the GLBT Historical Society and will feature the music of five legendary gay clubs in San Francisco: the Trocadero Transfer, Townsend, the I-Beam, the EndUp, and the Box. Two legendary DJs from the late 70s and early 80s will be on hand to spin, Steve Fabus and Bobby Viteritti, and they'll provide a kind of audio history of dance music from the early 70s to modern house.

See some more details on the party here, and get tickets here. But please watch some of the video below, which is part of the video projection that will play during the party, and which features a Los Angeles local news item on the booming gay culture in San Francisco circa 1981, just before the AIDS crisis came and shut it down for a while. Oh, the glory days...