By Brian J Pape, AIA The June 1969 rebelln agast police harassment by the patrons of the Stonewall Inn, at the eastern end of Christopher Street, helped to lnch a natnal gay rights movement and make Christopher Street the social and cultural center of New York’s lbian and gay muny. Today, almost all of the
Contents:
- GAY SEX THE '70S
- WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
- GAY NEW YORK CY
- THEN&NOW: AN OVERLOOKED CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY SCENE
GAY SEX THE '70S
The gay scene of New York Cy was promently thst to the public eye 1969, after rts at a Greenwich Village bar. But existed long before that. * new york gay scene 1970s *
New York Cy’s gay scene was thst promently to the public eye 1969 after rts at a Greenwich Village bar. New York Cy – and Greenwich Village, particular – are associated worldwi wh gay rights and gay history bee of the Stonewall uprisg of June 1969 and the newly visible gay world that flowered the Village as a rult of . role world gay history the late 1960s, 70s and.
an important gay centre long before.
By the 1850s, people that we would today ll gay began to play an important role New York – at least the cultural life that was beg a signifint feature of the cy. Gay or gay-iendly social groups were startg up too. Whman read his most clearly homoerotic works, the ‘Calam’ poems, aloud to the circle of his iends who gathered at Pfaff’s beer cellar, at Broadway and Bleecker Street, which suggts that they were at least what today we ll ‘alli’.
WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
This documentary explor the birth of the gay pri movement New York after the Stonewall rts of 1969 and the sexual eedom that rulted. It touch on many aspects of gay culture the 1970s, cludg mic, dgs and art, followed by the vastatg impact that the onset of AIDS had on the homosexual muny. Told through several terviews and archival material, pats a picture of solidary and posivy while explorg the sexualy of a relatively new movement. * new york gay scene 1970s *
There is ls evince of gay life New York the s after the 1850s, perhaps bee the Civil War retard the velopment of alternative liftyl the US.
By the 1890s, however, New York already had what we’d ll gay bars or, more precisely, drag bars. As Gee Chncey explas his masterly book Gay New York, at that time people tend to divi men not to gay and straight, but to ‘normal men’ and ‘fairi’ and was nsired possible for ‘normal men’ to have sex wh ‘fairi’ whout brgg their normaly to qutn, so long as they retaed the sertive role sex. The gay bars were known for their ‘fairy’ waers, who, acrdg to police reports, ‘rouge[d] their necks’ and sang ‘ filthy dti’, ie performed drag.
GAY NEW YORK CY
Rememberg the Lost Gay Bars of NYC Like The Vlt Me Shaft Nth Circle * new york gay scene 1970s *
By the 1890s, New York’s velopg gay world was already a paradoxil suatn and that remaed typil of the cy until the 1970s.
THEN&NOW: AN OVERLOOKED CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY SCENE
The bt gay bars, dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas and gay cise clubs New York. * new york gay scene 1970s *
Throughout this perd, the cy was a mag for all kds of gay people. From the 1890s on, has an enormo history of gay liv, lov and muni, as well as of cultural productn by gay people and, om the 1950s, polil activism.