The Great Homo History Hunt
Scavenger hunt sends players on a search throughout San Francisco for gay history
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The members of Team Herstorectumies donned wigs, pink sequined-laced tank tops and fishnet stockings, all in the name of gay history, or herstory, as they called it.

"I want to win this bitch," Felicia Fellatio, 22, declared on Saturday during the 2nd annual Great Homo History Hunt, a gay history scavenger hunt.

The hunt sends its players throughout historic sites through out San Francisco related to queer history. Fellatio and her fellow Herstorectumies teammates, along with 50 other participants scoured most of downtown San Francisco and the Mission to look for clues.

The hunt began in Civic Center at 11am and ended at the Eagle Tavern. The event, a benefit organized by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society, started out last year as a birthday party, but is now a full-fledged event.

The Herstorectumies were last year’s winners. Armed with their slogan "Let’s kick some rectum!" they were off to make herstory repeat itself.

10:15 a.m.: The Herstorectumies meet up at the home of Tess Tube, a 35-year-old marketing manager living the Mission District. To prepare, they eat breakfast and wash it down with mimosas.

"I’m going to take some mimosa on the road," Fellatio while applying make-up to her team mates.

11:15 a.m.: The team has made their way down to Civic Center. There they encounter the Fou Fou Neselectric, a competing team. The name means "electric pussy" in French. Catty exchanges were made right before the Herstorectumies performed their team chant, "Be Submissive."

11:30 a.m.: The group splits off, Fellatio and Mary Lou Rectum, 30, ran off toward the San Francisco Public Library as Tube and two other team mates, Fallopia, 33, and Olga Rachicokoff, 31 headed toward Larkin Street on bicycles. "I can’t image running like this with a uterus," Rectum said after running around the city hall building to count the number of first floor windows.

11:55 a.m.: Fellatio and Rectum end up at the GLBT Historical Society. Since 1985, the Society has been collecting and preserving gay culture artifacts, so future generations can have access to queer history. The Society currently has an exhibit focusing on GLBT Athletes and one featuring the San Francisco Dyke March photography.

12:24 p.m.: Team Herstorectumies gather together at the Women’s Building in the Mission. They make a few quick fashion decisions before making their way to Good Vibrations where they found out what the most popular vibrator sold was.

1:13 p.m: The Team ends up at Eagle’s Tavern almost an hour early. Rachicokoff and Fallopia, who were married earlier last year at city hall, arrive with Tube on their bicycles decorated with pink streamers and brown rose buds, which Fallopia named "herstorectumy roses."

2:30 p.m.: The GLBT Historical Society began giving out awards. Although the Herstorectumies did win

"Best Form of Locomotion," for their fabulously dressed bicycles, they lost their tiaras for the overall hunt to Team Cobra, four women who vowed to return next year with Cobra bikes and tattoos.

Team Cobra made it in just before the 2:00 p.m. deadline, but scored all the correct answers. The best part was going to the exhibit at the GLBT Historical Society and learning about queer history, they said. The Fou Fou Neselectric, dressed as cowgirls, in colors like shocking pink and deep azure, won
"Best Dressed".

"It’s not about winning or losing," said Rectum after the team passed on their tiaras. "It’s about making herstory."

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PHOTO
Fay Eastman | Special to [X]Press
The Hersterstorecumies poses for a group photo while their competition arrives at The Eagle Tavern.

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