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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
From April 6, 1973, to June 21, 2019, the events transformed Ccnati om the “most anti-gay” cy the untry to a bean of progrs. * the gay 90s cincinnati ohio *
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.
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.
'CCNATI WAS A REMARKABLY QUEER PLACE': THE UNTOLD STORI OF THE QUEEN CY'S GAY HISTORY
It was a Friday night the 1980s and police officers were raidg Spurs, a popular gay bar Ccnati. Carl Fox and others were orred by police to… * the gay 90s cincinnati ohio *
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.
THE GAY 90S
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It was a Friday night the 1980s and police officers were raidg Spurs, a popular gay bar Ccnati.
CCNATI GAY BARS
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"Fox is 63 and opened Rosie's Tavern, a gay bar Covgton, over 30 years ago.
Ccnati Gay Bar Gui. Fd the bt gay bars and venu Cncati. Reviews, photos, gay map, rmatn. Updated for 2023. * the gay 90s cincinnati ohio *
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 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.