Tom Hanks, who won an Osr for his role as a gay man wh AIDS the film “Philalphia,” said that if the film were ma today, a straight actor wouldn’t be st that role, and “rightly so.”
Contents:
- GAY ICON: THE MIC OF ELTON JOHN
- BAYARD RT: A RADIL GAY IN FOR OUR TIME
- BGRAPHY ON GAY IN FALLS SHORT
- PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
- GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®
- TOM HANKS SAYS ‘PHILALPHIA’ WOULDN’T GET MA TODAY WH A STRAIGHT ACTOR A GAY ROLE
- 1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
GAY ICON: THE MIC OF ELTON JOHN
Historic s, popular neighborhoods, and LGBTQ+-owned bars and rtrants Philalphia's Gayborhood and beyond. * gay icon philadelphia *
On May 19-20, 2023, the PGMC returns to the Suzanne Roberts Theatre for GAY ICON: The Mic of Elton John!
Historic s, popular neighborhoods, and LGBTQ+-owned bars and rtrants Philalphia's Gayborhood and beyond... The Cy of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affectn hosted the untry’s first major monstratn for gay rights, the Annual Remrs, 1965. And today, Philly visors n easily explore s where LGBTQ+ history was ma and where queer life ntu to thrive, pecially the cy’s Gayborhood and durg annual events like Philly Pri 365.
The center of Philalphia’s gay rintial life and culture sce World War II, the blocks between 11th and Broad streets and Pe and Chtnut streets earned their nickname — the “Gayborhood”— durg an October Outft event 1995. You have your choice of fabulo entertament and diversns as the bars and nightclubs of the Gayborhood e alive each night.
BAYARD RT: A RADIL GAY IN FOR OUR TIME
I wanted another mural of someone who had ma an equal name for himself Black gay culture -- someone who meant somethg to our muny. * gay icon philadelphia *
Sce 2015, the brilliant rabow crosswalks at the tersectn of 13th and Loct Streets have served as an sential Gayborhood landmark.
BGRAPHY ON GAY IN FALLS SHORT
Take a guid tour through the Gayborhood and learn more about the cy’s queer history wh help om Beyond the Bell Tour. The group’s LGBTQ and Trans History tours reunt the stori of Gay Liberatn Front – Philalphia founr Kiyoshi Kuromiya, explore morn history and current social issu the neighborhood, and stop at important muny s like the Attic Youth Center, which supports LGBTQ+ youth experiencg homelsns. The Gayborhood got a h new mural at the start of Pri Month 2021 when muralist Ash Ryan fished this three-story-tall tribute to pop star Lil Nas X.
PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
Get your history straight wh historic LGBTQ+ markers sprkled throughout the Gayborhood, cludg:. In 1965, the Universy of Pennsylvania expelled Fryer om his psychiatric rincy program on the basis of his homosexualy, which was then classified as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA). In 1972, Fryer, a faculty member at the Temple Universy School of Medice, offered an electrifyg anonymo ttimony that rulted the APA’s 1973 classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns.
GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®
Philalphia Gay News Marker: This marker stands ont of the first office of the Philalphia Gay News, one of the natn’s most award-wng weekly newspapers. Inpennce Hall was the se of the untry’s earlit anized recurrg gay rights monstratns, begng July 4, 1965.
Like most gay men the first half of the 20th century, Locke remaed closeted throughout his life. A pneer the LGBTQ+ rights movement, Gtgs, a Philalphia rint om age 18 and a lifetime activist, eded The Ladr, the natn’s first lbian magaze; -anized the Annual Remrs at Inpennce Hall (see above) and led charg both to promote posive LGBTQ+ lerature public librari and to change the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns.
Across Broad Street, a sign at 13th and Loct streets the Gayborhood clar the thoroughfare Barbara Gtgs Way. It’s where radil gay llective Gazoo found Philalphia’s Gay Liberatn Front and where bisexual blu sger Bsie Smh performed at the Royal Theatre, an early 20th-century Black-owned cultural center. Today, the street’s known for s Magic Garns, cheteak shops and hangouts, cludg dive bar extraordaire Bob & Barbara’s Lounge, home of one of Philly’s bt-loved drag shows; the punk art LGBTQ+ haven Tattooed Mom; and the eclectic, gay-owned boutique shop Workshop Unrground.
TOM HANKS SAYS ‘PHILALPHIA’ WOULDN’T GET MA TODAY WH A STRAIGHT ACTOR A GAY ROLE
Note: Throughout this list are referenc to the Gay Communy Center of Philalphia, the Policy Council, and the Coordatg Commtee. Worked to help create the Gay Communy Center of Philalphia’s library 1976 and was the library ordator 1977.
William Damon was an active member of the gay muni of Philalphia, PA; New York, NY; Key Wt, FL; and Provcetown, MA. In 1976, he ma natnal headl when the Florida Supreme Court led he uldn’t be nied membership Bar Associatn bee of his homosexualy.
Pianist, one of the founrs of ACTION AIDS, active the Philalphia Lbian and Gay Task Force, the AIDS Task Force and Communy Health Alternativ. ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), Queer Actn, Gay Pri Commtee 1990, host of Gaydreams rad show on WXPN 1979-1984.
1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
Chaired the first nventn of ECHO (East Coast Homophile Organizatns) at the Drake Hotel Augt of 1963. Elected to the Gay Communy Center of Philalphia’s Policy Council October 1977, -owner of the Monster rtrant.
Garcia-Vera was a gay rights activist who enjoyed sgg and theater work and was also very volved wh the Hispanic muny Philalphia.