'A remarkably queer place': Untold stori of Ccnati's gay history

Contents:

• GAY BARS A HISTORIL 'REFUGE' FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE
• 'CCNATI WAS A REMARKABLY QUEER PLACE': THE UNTOLD STORI OF THE QUEEN CY'S GAY HISTORY
• THE GAY 90S
• CCNATI GAY BARS

GAY BARS A HISTORIL 'REFUGE' FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE

The Gay Pri March April 1973 at Founta Square. Photograph urty of the Collectn of The Public Library of Ccnati and Haton CountyFrom April 6, 1973, to June 21, 2019, the events transformed Ccnati om the “most anti-gay” cy the untry to a bean of progrs.

'CCNATI WAS A REMARKABLY QUEER PLACE': THE UNTOLD STORI OF THE QUEEN CY'S GAY HISTORY

Together, they shape the cy’s LGBTQ 6–8, 1973Nearly four years after New York’s pivotal Stonewall Inn rts, the activist-found Ccnati Gay Communy (CGC) aniz the cy’s first public Pri celebratn, highlighted by a most crowd marchg om Washgton Park to Founta 22, 1978Mayor Jerry Sprger signs a proclamatn officially regnizg Lbian/Gay Pri Day Ccnati. November 2, 1993Voters support Article XII (Issue 3), a charter amendment preventg the cy om providg legal protectns for gays and lbians unr the Human Rights Ordance passed a year earlier.

November 2, 2004Followg a yearlong mpaign by gay rights activists to place a repeal of Article XII on the ballot, voters support s rollback, allowg cy uncil to pass laws protectg gays and lbians om 22, 2005A feral appeals urt upholds a district urt lg sidg wh Philecia Barn, a transgenr woman and 24-year Ccnati Police veteran who sued the Cy of Ccnati for discrimatn after she was moted for lackg “mand prence. ”March 15, 2006Ccnati Cy Council approv an amendment to the cy’s Human Rights Ordance, addg LGBTQ dividuals to those clud employment and hog 2010Ccnati Pri, anized by the Greater Ccnati Gay Chamber of Commerce, returns ftivi om Northsi’s Hoffner Park to Founta Square, makg more accsible. December 1, 2011Ccnati’s first openly gay cy uncilmember, Chris Seelbach, is sworn to office.

It was a Friday night the 1980s and police officers were raidg Spurs, a popular gay bar Ccnati. "Fox is 63 and opened Rosie's Tavern, a gay bar Covgton, over 30 years ago. He nsirs a gay-iendly bar where all are wele, which is important to and his partner of about 25 years, Terry Bond, rell how much the gay bar scene meant to them and their peers when they were says on that Friday night the '80s, several people were beaten by police when they tried to flee through the pat.

THE GAY 90S

"The real nam of those arrted were published the newspaper, outg them as gay.

Dpe the risk of police raids, gay bars were sential to LGBTQ people. "Rather than jt drkg together, the LGBTQ muny were the first people to raise money for HIV rearch — though wasn't lled HIV at the time — and the first to publish articl about the vis and safe sex practic, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and CDC says nearly 330, 000 gay and bisexual men have died om AIDS the Uned Stat sce the 1980s. About 66% intified as gay or bisexual men; about 24% got the vis through heterosexual the spread of HIV worsened, LGBTQ people had to rec alli to prevent and treat the vis, Fox and Bond said.

Buildg alli meant creatg a stronger movement for LGBTQ equaly and health — somethg they're grateful for — but 's also meant losg some of the timacy gay bars created.

CCNATI GAY BARS

"The days, they say, bars tend to be more "gay-iendly, " acceptg alli to the is retired now and Bond ns the Crazy Fox. Will The Gay Safe Space Endure?

"What I still like about gay bars is that I n show proper affectn and not have to worry that my life's gonna be at risk eher si the bar or walkg back to my r. It's meant to feel like a large livg room where people n have nversatns whout beg drowned out by loud acknowledge the gay bar scene has changed over the years. Rather than beg a space exclively for LGBTQ people, the newer generatn of gay bars are more about beg open and vg to the same way some young LGBTQ people are unaaid to be openly themselv public, straight people seem to be creasgly fortable jog their iends at gay and 'gay-iendly' of the bar owners thk that hts at the end of gay bars.

That there hopefully will still be gay bars, but jt won't be necsarily bee of the need for a safe space, " Ruffner said. When Ken Schneck me to town to rearch his history book, “LGBTQ Ccnati, ” he didn’t know what he was gettg had already pleted siar books on Cleveland and Columb, but those ci have regnal LGBTQ centers – Ccnati don’ had to go person to person, relyg on workg to fd photos and piece together the cy’s plited gay rights ’s a history that clus Article XII (Issue 3), a ntroversial cy charter amendment passed 1993 that prohibed Ccnati om providg legal protectns for gays and lbians.

Voters repealed the amendment 2004, a time when other parts of the untry were passg bans on gay marriage.

“Ccnati had the first gay pri para all of Oh … but the perd between 1993 and 2004 Ccnati, there are not enough books that n be wrten about how vastatg to the LGBTQ muny Issue 3/Article XII were. ”Many of the people and events “LGBTQ Ccnati” n’t be found other history books, om gay bars to gay bowlg wh the Ccnati Tri-State Invatnal Tournament.