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Contents:

• FORMER SE OF DETRO'S LONGT-NNG GAY HEALTH SPA, TNT HEALTH CLUB, FORECLOSURE
• GAY DETRO TRAVEL GUI
• WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
• BT GAY BARS IN METRO DETRO
• JAGUARS ACH MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• MENJO'SDETROMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPMENJO'S
• TOP 10 BT BLACK GAY HIP HOP CLUBS NEAR DETRO, MICHIGAN
• BT GAY BARS NEAR DETRO, MI 48226
• GIGI’S CELEBRAT 50 YEARS: THE OLST GAY-OWNED GAY BAR DETRO IS NOW A HALF-CENTURY OLD
• MOVG TO LGBT DETRO, MICHIGAN? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

FORMER SE OF DETRO'S LONGT-NNG GAY HEALTH SPA, TNT HEALTH CLUB, FORECLOSURE

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Whether you’re gay, straight, bi, trans, or queer, the are great tablishments to make a night of and teract wh a diverse muny. The history of the LGBT muny metro Detro spans the cy’s past, but took new shape right after World War II when gay clubs began openg mostly downtown. This gay-owned Spanish tapas rtrant featur a lp of tradnal tapas, which are meant to be eaten small portns while sippg on the spot’s hoe-ma sangria or a craft cktail.

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The former se of TNT Health Club, one of Detro's first gay health clubs, is foreclosure and headg to former health club at 13333 W. 09, and the ctn on the property will be takg place this View Detro properti at risk of tax foreclosure this year's Wayne County ctnMore: Here are 10 plac to pick strawberriTNT Health Club shut down summer 2018 and was open longer than another gay bathhoe  the cy. Some of the ameni offered at TNT while was still bs were that of a heated swimmg pool, a whirlpool, a steam room, Fnish sna, weight room, and movie bathho were created out of a need for exclively gay spac, pecially somewhere hidn om outsi scty and bigotry.

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MUST VISIT: Gay-iendly bars & nightlife. Lol Expert: Gay Scene Detro. Detro has a large and vibrant gay scene.

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MUST VISIT: Detro Gay-Friendly Bars & Nightlife. When The Woodward, Detro's olst-nng gay bar, burned a massive fire last week, spurred a nversatn about the history of the bar self, but also where was suated Detro gay history more broadly — and how to remember and celebrate s signifince the gay muny while lookg toward the future.

The fire happened the middle of Pri Month, and not jt any Pri Month Detro: This year marks 50 years sce the cy's first Pri march, held June 24, 1972 to mand "full civil rights for gay people" and a repeal of all anti-gay laws, the Free Prs reported back then. The march, officially lled Christopher Street '72, was self a remembrance of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street New York Cy on June 28, 1969, when protts broke out rponse to a police raid at a gay bar.

In s 70-odd years, The Woodward has been part of many tersectg stori of gay life and culture Detro, cludg policg of gay spac, ownership shifts, racial segregatn and populatn trends the cy. The owners said they never set out to open up a gay bar.

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"We jt opened up and whichever way went, went, " Andy Karagas told "Gayzette" 1973 (as reported Andy's obuary 1997). "And when went gay all the way, we kicked out all the straights that night.

He later me out as the time, owners of gay bars Detro were mostly not gay themselv. Gay sex was a crime Michigan — as had been sce the 1800s — and police equently harassed and arrted gay people and raid gay bars.

"It was technilly illegal to operate a bar that was a renzvo for homosexuals, " said Tim Retzloff, adjunct assistant profsor of history and LGBTQ studi at Michigan State Universy. Bars at the time, gay and otherwise, sometim paid off police to be left alone.

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The Woodward provid a safe haven for whe gay men.

Like many gay bars of s era, did not embrace people of lor. In that way, The Woodward was not unlike most other early gay bars Detro.

GIGI’S CELEBRAT 50 YEARS: THE OLST GAY-OWNED GAY BAR DETRO IS NOW A HALF-CENTURY OLD

Startg after World War II and to the 1960s, several gay bars were cltered around Farmer and Bat streets downtown Detro, cludg Club 1011, La Rosa's and The Silver Dollar. Very few gay bars at the time tered to Black patrons, although there were two Paradise Valley that Retzloff has intified his rearch: The 705 and the Ra-bo Mic Club. Their place was known as "The Gay Spot.

More gay hangouts began to crop up beyond downtown the '50s and '60s.

MOVG TO LGBT DETRO, MICHIGAN? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Gay ownership of gay bars beme more mon this era.

Menjo's, which still exists, was gay-owned when Mike Crawford, Henry Trent and Joe LaRosa, Jr. Gigi's, on Wt Warren near the Southfield Freeway, will take on the mantle of the olst operatg gay bar Detro if The Woodward do not survive. It dat s foundg to 1973, when the former supper club was purchased by Tony Garne — a gay man and one of the founrs of Bars and Towels, Inc., an early associatn for owners of gay bars and bs.