José Sarria, AKA Mama José, was not living in San Francisco at the time the program is set.
José Sarria states he was given a blue discharge, an administrative discharge often issued to homosexual servicemembers in the World War II era. Sarria received an honorable discharge from the Army in 1947.
Sylvester did not tour Europe until 1979, well after the time of the episode.
San Francisco's Black Cat Café closed in 1964, a decade before the events depicted there.
When Roma calls Patty on the phone asking for the phone number for the National Organization for Women (NOW) in California, she writes down area code 510. The area code for San Francisco in 1971 was 415. The 510 area code did not exist until 1991.