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In the send half of the twentieth century, the Center Cy neighborhood that beme known as the Gayborhood formed the vicy of Loct and Thirteenth Streets. The muny and the geographil spac occupied played a val role the social and polil stggl of LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) people lolly and the natn. After World War II, Philalphia’s gay geography, like that many Amerin ci, expand greatly.

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Postwar downtown Philalphia, or “Center Cy, ” as was begng to be lled, had the largt ncentratn of apartments and rental rooms the “Cy of Hom, ” providg gay men, lbians, and transgenred people wh the privacy and urban anonymy they sought. In the 1950s and 1960s, Rtenhoe Square was known as a place where gay men and lbians g to the cy uld meet others and socialize.

By the 1950s, Rtenhoe Square and the beatnik ffeeho nearby on Sansom Street had bee part of the public gay geography of the cy. So many gay men moved to apartments south of the square that even straight people monly referred to gay men who lived Center Cy by the d term “Spce Street boys. ” Gays, of urse, lived all throughout the cy, wh a signifint lbian prence the Germantown/Chtnut Hill area.

In an era when racism extend even to the LGBT muny, many Ain Amerin gay men and lbians socialized bars or through private parti north of Market Street, North Philalphia, or across the Schuylkill Wt Philalphia. In December 1962, Greater Philalphia Magaze published an say by Gaeton Fonzi (1935-2012) about the cy’s gay muny. The article mentned a dozen or so gay bars and ffeeho sttered along Spce Street wt of Broad and along the Loct Street area east of Broad.

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Fonzi also terviewed a handful of gay people, many of whom remaed anonymo.

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Dpe s semi-sensatnalist subtle—“Philalphia’s homosexuals lead a strange twilight life outsi the law and outsi of society”— the story steered away om the lurid and foced stead on the problems of gay people Philalphia and the burgeong gay polil scene. C., and New York to stage annual monstratns for gay rights ont of Inpennce Hall. Many gay men, lbians, and genr-variant people who lived through the 1950s and 1960s experienced partmentalized liv.

They scribed themselv as beg “straight durg the 9 to 5 work week, but damned gay on weekends. A number of factors worked together to turn the few blocks that radiated om Loct and Thirteenth Streets to the neighborhood that beme known as the Gayborhood.

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As the character of the area changed, a few of the “mil bars” on the hidn, smaller streets like Camac and Quce began attractg a gay clientele and a few venu beme predomantly gay. The cy bought and molished many buildgs the sectn that enpassed the emergg Gayborhood, but lack of funds left the area pockmarked wh vant lots and no real plan for velopment.

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Police actns on area strip clubs led by then-Police Commissner Frank Rizzo (1920-1991) ually clud raids on gay bars, lumpg prostut, dg alers, and homosexuals all together as “unsirabl. ” Even gay and lbian private clubs, rporated to get around the cy’s ban on same-sex dancg, were not immune. Police raids on gay bars were mon well to the 1980s.

The strip bars and “gentlemen’s clubs” kept the area prsed through the early ’70s, but the gay muny was evolvg rapidly. Wh a few years, Philalphia saw the birth of several radil, new-left anizatns cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, the Gay Activist Alliance, and Dyketactics. In 1972, Philalphians held their first Gay Pri monstratn, wh an timated 10, 000 people marchg om Rtenhoe Square to Inpennce Mall, signalg the end of a “furtive aterny” and the begng of a new, highly visible prence.

By 1976, gay Philalphia had opened a gay muny center on South Street, found the Philalphia Gay News, and began phg for a cywi gay rights ordance. Participants Philalphia’s first Gay Pri Para June 1972 marched along Chtnut Street towards Inpennce Hall, extravagantly exprsg themselv through signs, mic, and chants as they marched.

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The new LGBT volvement polics affected the geography of the Gayborhood.

Gay spac proliferated, wh gay bars openg both east and wt of Broad Street, along South and Front Streets, and suburbs like Cherry Hill and Norristown. Many of the bars, rtrants, and shops the Gayborhood advertised themselv as gay-owned and operated, and the first LGBT bs associatns were formed. By the end of the , cy food wrers attributed Philalphia’s rtrant renaissance to s gay entreprenrs.

In 1982, the Gay Rights Bill that had stalled year after year through the 1970s passed Cy Council wh almost no opposn. The Gayborhood Gets Its Name. Center Cy’s gay neighborhood gaed s name 1995 at Outft, a memoratn of Natnal Comg Out Day, when David Warner playfully paraphrased the Mister Rogers children’s song and clared, “It’s a betiful day the Gayborhood!