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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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New York’s olst Gay bar and Greenwich Village’s olst bar. Reach Out to UsIf you have qutns about the events and products at our gay bar, please feel ee to get touch wh via email. 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.
JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK
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Juli’, turned out, was the perfect spot for their tt se: It had a sizable homosexual followg, Wicker said, but the management was termed not to let bee a “gay bar. ”The group walked and orred, then Lesch announced, “We are homosexuals. “I thk ’s agast the law, ” he said, acrdg to was exactly the reactn Mattache members had hoped for: Publicy om the “sip-” led to the New York State Supreme Court lg a year later that simply beg gay — or even cisg or kissg — was not cent didn’t jt change liquor regulatns, Wicker said.
“It helped moved the gay muny out of the grasp of the crimal world. ”Gerry Gonzalez mix a drk for a ctomer at Juli' Constante Motal / NBC NewsWh a few years, there were legimate, pennt gay bars.
They remaed the nex of gay life for s, said LGBTQ historian Ken Ltbar, founr of the New York Cy LGBT Historic S Project. ”And while New York’s gay bar scene has bee a shadow of s former size — a victim of assiatn, gentrifitn and datg apps — Juli’ remaed packed most weekends.