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Contents:
- SEARCHG FOR SILVER LAKE: THE RADIL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT CHANGED GAY AMERI
- GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI
- WELE TO GAY IENDLY NORTHERN ARIZONA
SEARCHG FOR SILVER LAKE: THE RADIL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT CHANGED GAY AMERI
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One of the few plac equally enjoyable and betiful year round, gay Lake Tahoe offers everythg and more.
If ’s a gay-owned B&B; you want to ll home for Gay Ski Week March, or an epic summer Sunday cise on the lake, Tahoe offers the entire spectm.
GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI
From fe dg to the general store, we'll show you every nook and cranny of gay Lake Tahoe, even the unfettable bird's eye view om the Gondola at Heavenly Mounta. We are drivg up an almost vertil hill a hip Los Angel neighborhood, lookg for one of the birthplac of the gay civil rights movement. At the wheel is Roland Palencia, a gay activist who has lived and anized here for Silver Lake Rervoir sh behd , the hills around crowd wh bungalows.
”The plaque qutn memorat the Mattache Society, one of the first US “homophile” groups to openly advote for acceptance.
WELE TO GAY IENDLY NORTHERN ARIZONA
We were standg on the hill where the Mattache Society was found 1950, and began to advote for homosexuals not as sners or perverts, but as an opprsed mory who served rights. Ls than two away is the Black Cat Tavern, the se of one of the first public gay rights monstratns, 1967, prottg the Los Angel police partment’s btal New Year’s Eve raid.
By the 80s, Silver Lake was a center of queer life, pecially queer Lato life, and, Palencia says, nearly every other storeont was a gay or lbian bar, a leather store, a bookstore, or a muny Aids anizatn. Today, spe the rabow flags flyg along Sunset Boulevard, Silver Lake is beg “-gayed and -Latized” queer history tour began at Silver Lake’s most famo gay landmark: the Black Cat Tavern. The prott outsi the Black Cat took place 1967, two years before New York’s Stonewall rt, which is often scribed as the foundatnal event of the US gay rights movement.