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.
Contents:
- WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
- BOOKS FOR LGBTQ PRI MONTH: GAY LIFE AND HISTORY NEW YORK CY
WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
I was the luckit gay Jew the world. The most wonrful thg about those days was that the gay folks power lent a hand to young gay people tryg to get a foothold the bs.
There was a powerful work of olr succsful gay men like theatril agent Milton Goldman and entertament attorney Arnold Weissberger who troduced younger gay men to succsful showbiz typ at their betiful apartment on Sutton Place overlookg the East River.
They were a long-“married” uple a good half-century before there was gay marriage!
BOOKS FOR LGBTQ PRI MONTH: GAY LIFE AND HISTORY NEW YORK CY
One night at Juli’, the famo Wt Village gay bar, I met a man and took him home wh me. Every gay bar had a ltle dance floor.
If he shone three tim, they lled the NYPD, who had a al wh the Mafia owners of the gay bars to arrt a quota of “faggots” each week. The bar epted a gigantic brawl … the begng of the Gay Revolutn.
Gays were leadg the edge of the culture om 1969 to about 1983, when AIDS stopped all.