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- JULI' BAR, SE OF HISTORIC GAY 'SIP-,' THREATENED BY PANMIC
- JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK
JULI' BAR, SE OF HISTORIC GAY 'SIP-,' THREATENED BY PANMIC
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Chanliers danglg overhead are ma om wagon wheels of horse-drawn rriag that once livered ’ had started attractg a gay followg at least by the 1950s and, acrdg to lol lore, was a popular hangout for midcentury queer lumari like Tennsee Williams, Tman Capote and Rudolf Cherry works at Juli' on March Constante Motal / NBC NewsBut New York State Liquor Authory regulatns at that time prohibed servg drks to “known or spected homosexuals, ” whose very prence was nsired disorrly behavr. “This law was ed to prevent the existence of gay bars, so the on that did exist were unr the ntrol of the crimal unrworld, ” Randy Wicker, a member of the New York chapter of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay rights groups, said. “It forced gay people to that unrworld, ” Wicker, 83, said.
“We felt was very siar to how Black people were beg nied the right to s at a lunch unter, ” he ia for a prott, or a “sip-” as was eventually lled, was spired by the s-s of the civil rights movement: On April 21, 1966, four members of the New York Mattache chapter walked to a bar, clared they were homosexuals and mand to be served. The first bar they vised, the Ukraian-Amerin Village Rtrant, had been tipped off and closed Howard Johnson’s, the group clared, “We’re homosexuals and we want to be served.