Interactive: Tommy's Middletown, Connecticut GayBarMaps CT

Contents:

• TOMMY LEE'S HORRIFYG GAY EXPERIENCE
• ITALIAN OPEN TOMMY PL GAY RUMORS: GENR AND SEXUALY
• IS TOMMY LEE JON GAY? HERE IS THE TTH
• TOMMY GAY THE US
• TOMMY GAY
• THOMAS GAY
•  CONNECTICUT LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

TOMMY LEE'S HORRIFYG GAY EXPERIENCE

Tommyn is now officially gay. Now, he n talk about beg a gay man the hetero world of ’70s and ’80s big-time rock ‘n’ roll.

ITALIAN OPEN TOMMY PL GAY RUMORS: GENR AND SEXUALY

“You’d see rock stars make fun of gay men, but then you see the guys put on makp and have long hair and take on affectatns like girls, but that’s so they would not be threateng to girls. Yet, for a gay man was slightly easier beg Styx rather than say, Kiss or Aerosmh, whose randy songs celebrated sex and whose members actively rearched that material.

In the book, Panozzo wr about growg up gay Chigo, his double life Styx, and his HIV diagnosis 1991 — yet another secret he kept hidn.

Panozzo, who is active gay rights and also dabbl art, tours wh the band as often as his health allows. The raid would bee part of an creasgly aggrsive mpaign by the police, cy, and state ernments agast gay bars and gay people that would set the stage for the rise of the morn-day LGBTQ rights movement the late 1960s.

IS TOMMY LEE JON GAY? HERE IS THE TTH

Policg HomosexualyFive months earlier, March 1954, two teen girls, aged 14 and 16, were found a Haight Street room “sufferg om nartic poisong, ” acrdg to the San Francis Chronicle.

A week later, Tommy’s Place was 1954, San Francis was a briefly tolerant perd for gay bars, and the early 1950s many had proliferated the North Beach district. Thgs had been different only a few years earlier, and they were about to change policg of gay bars San Francis began earnt the 1940s durg World War II, as the ary attempted to crack down on so-lled “vice” Amerin ci, pecially port towns, orr to regulate their personnel. In San Francis, three agenci were volved the policg of gay tablishments: the police, the U.

” Warngs issued by the police uld lead to a bar beg publicly listed as off-lims to ary personnel, to arrts of any ary personnel who vised them, to a spensn of the bar’s liquor license, and ultimately to police 1951, all of the bars emed off-lims to the ary were believed to be gay bars, cludg all three lbian bars that existed at the time: Mona’s, the Chi-Chi Club, and Tommy’s 299.

TOMMY GAY THE US

Durg this crackdown agast gay bars, 1949 the Black Cat Rtrant, owned by Sol M. Stoumen, lost s liquor license for servg homosexuals.

TOMMY GAY

Reilly cisn legalized the public assembly of homosexuals California.

This meant gay people had the right to gather a bar, and led to a brief perd, om 1951-55, which gay bars flourished San Francis. However, cultural norms around homosexualy had not changed. Homosexualy was still nsired a psychologil illns at bt, and beliefs that we would characterize today as homophobic and transphobic were the norm.

THOMAS GAY

” A ont-page article the San Francis Examer, published on June 28, 1954, reunted a raid on a gay bar that rulted the arrts of 13 men “for a variety of charg arisg om lewd and cent nduct”:Sex viat were unr stern warng yterday that San Francis will not tolerate their offensive nduct and will not allow self to bee a haven for homosexuals.

 CONNECTICUT LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

The warng was backed up wh a sweepg seri of weekend raids on the known gatherg plac and a promise that police will ntue to keep the prsure on to stem what Chief Michael Gaffey scribed as a marked recent flux of acpanyg edorial tled “Need: A Cleanup, ” clared: [T]here mt be staed actn by the police and the district attorney to stop the flux of homosexuals. Only police actn n drive them out of the whout operatn om the urts or the liquor board, which were nstraed at the time by Stoumen, the police uldn’t do much to shut down gay bars.