Contents:
- GLORIA FRANKEL & THE SEAHORSE: THE SOUTH BEND LGBT CLUB’S FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- ARE SEA HORSE GAY
- CAN HORS BE GAY? (ANSWERED!)
- HORSE VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HORSE | GAY |IN OBSOLETE TERMS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS TO GET ON HORSEBACK WHILE GAY IS AN ORNAMENT.AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS OF, LIKE, OR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WH THE ANIMAL EQU FES BALL.GAY IS A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS VERBS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS TO OLIC, TO ACT MISCHIEVOLY. (USUALLY FOLLOWED BY "AROUND". WHILE GAY IS TO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.AS A PROPER NOUN GAY IS{{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS AN ADJECTIVE GAY ISHAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.HORSE
GLORIA FRANKEL & THE SEAHORSE: THE SOUTH BEND LGBT CLUB’S FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
In 2015, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend announced a South Bend Tribune op-ed that he was gay, makg him Indiana’s first openly gay mayor.
In 1974, Gloria Frankel and her gay club, The Seahorse Cabaret, whstood police harassment, challenged regulatns agast LGBT dividuals, and endured a firebombg. In this post, we explore the fight for gay rights the Michiana area and the trepid woman who lead the charge. Acrdg to Ben Weland’s “Then and Now: The Origs and Development of the Gay Communy South Bend, ” Frankel opened South Bend’s first gay club the early 1970s.
The rts immediately forward the gay liberatn movement and the fight for LGBT rights Ameri. LGBT dividuals smaller ci palized on the momentum by openg bars that fostered gay muni and provid them wh a relatively safe space for entertament, dialogue, and activism. ‘Cse was a gay bar'” (Weland, 74).
ARE SEA HORSE GAY
In 2005, Frankel relled “I always wanted to open a bar where gay people openly socialized wh each other. And at the time, beg ught a gay bar would land you jail and lose you your job.
CAN HORS BE GAY? (ANSWERED!)
” Weland ntend that The Seahorse was nsired a threat by law enforcement bee “beme more than jt a hole the wall, looked to the opposn like hope; a hope for visibily, mastream appeal, and a pot of anizatn for the gay movement. The Lambda Society* of Michiana was also ncerned wh laws discrimatg agast the gay muny, urgg newsletter rears 1974 and 1975 to wre their legislators.
It noted that the anizatn was found “bee gay is more than sexual preference, and bee gay n be more than jt an alternative life style. Newsletter articl about the 1974 Indiana Gay Awarens Conference Bloomgton, Indiana give a wdow to the origs of mobilized polil actn for Michiana’s LGBT muny.
HORSE VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HORSE | GAY |IN OBSOLETE TERMS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS TO GET ON HORSEBACK WHILE GAY IS AN ORNAMENT.AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS OF, LIKE, OR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WH THE ANIMAL EQU FES BALL.GAY IS A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS VERBS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS TO OLIC, TO ACT MISCHIEVOLY. (USUALLY FOLLOWED BY "AROUND". WHILE GAY IS TO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.AS A PROPER NOUN GAY IS{{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS AN ADJECTIVE GAY ISHAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.HORSE
One article noted that after discsg issu that gay dividuals enuntered wh their fai, police, landlords, and employers, the cisn was ma to “addrs the problem, which is not that we are crimals, but how to help others al wh their problems wh homosexualy. ” There was a panel discsn regardg “Gayns and the Law” and efforts were ma to aid attorneys handlg related s.
Cover of, September 8, 1975, a year of natnal nversatn about gay acceptance. ” However, planted the seeds for unified efforts to change perspectiv about homosexuals. ” The thor nclud by statg “I learned more about others and my own attut [sic] towards homosexuals and straights....