Philly Theater Week abounds wh queer offergs - Philalphia Gay News

Contents:

• PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
• GAY AND LBIAN THEATRE FTIVAL
• GAY PHILALPHIA
• 1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
• PHILALPHIA GAY SNAS
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• GAY MIS

PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS

Sce at least 1977 (when is listed Bob Damron’s Addrs book), the Sansom Cema has been a gay porn cema the area of Center cy (downtown) Philalphia. The area is often referred to by the gay rints as the ‘gayborhood’.

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.

GAY AND LBIAN THEATRE FTIVAL

The Gayborhood. 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.

Shoppg the Gayborhood.

Sce 2015, the brilliant rabow crosswalks at the tersectn of 13th and Loct Streets have served as an sential Gayborhood landmark. Take a guid tour through the Gayborhood and learn more about the cy’s queer history wh help om Beyond the Bell Tour.

GAY PHILALPHIA

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. Historic Gayborhood Markers.

1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE

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. 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. Meetg atten planned the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights.

PHILALPHIA GAY SNAS

3rd Street to the gay activists who found the cy’s first LGBTQ+ ffeehoe. 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. By 1975 was screeng gay adult movi and was renamed Adonis Cema by 2004. Congrswoman Mary Gay ias of Binomics and promotg unn work are rnerston of the print's reelectn mpaign.

THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA

Lori-Nan Engler and Kava Goyal Cynthia Cooper’s lbian dramaStrange Lights at the Philalphia Gay and Lbian Theatre Ftival.

An unual sight greeted many of the patrons who filled the Arn Theatre Company’s Ardia Stage for the openg night of the First Annual Philalphia Gay and Lbian Theatre Ftival: On stage was LDQ, a youth improv group that performs neighborhood schools to illtrate the many issu facg gay and lbian teens. It was an appropriate openg to the ftival that the outreach programs are often the only gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr-themed work performed the area.

GAY MIS

Mary… follows a homophobic hoewife named Kathleen (the lightful Anne Czan), whose recently ceased drag queen siblg she refers to as “the brother I never had and the sister I never wanted. In I Am Joe’s Prostate, Delaney and the equally good Pat Doran played a uple of regular guys whose latent homosexual tennci emerge wh amg rults, while Gger Lazas’ monologue Lemona saw Er Reilly (sensatnal earlier this season Adam Rapp’s Nocturne) give a poignant and well-librated performance as a lbian mic teacher preachg on the pfalls of love to her send gra class.

Stctured like an actg exercise, the short play sps a number of variatns on a son (Doran) tellg his father (Jeff Solomon) that he is gay.

2020 se the return of banner annual events like the massive PriDay LGBT Para and Ftival June, and OutFt, the world’s largt Natnal Comg Out Day bash, which hs the Gayborhood durg LGBTQ History Month. — Photo urty Philalphia Gay Men's Chos.