Wt Village Gay Bar Juli’ on Track to Bee a Cy Landmark - Eater NY

Contents:

• JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK
• NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK
• THE BT GAY BARS THE WT VILLAGE
• NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
• 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’, one of New York’s olst gay bars, is on track to bee a cy landmark. Juli’ Bar Greenwich Village is signifint the area of social history for s associatn wh an important early event the morn gay rights movement.

Juli’, now the olst gay bar New York Cy (and also one of the olst bars the cy ntuo operatn), is a bar and rtrant that dat back to the neteenth century, wh s current sign probably datg om the late neteenth or early twentieth century. By the 1960s, some four s after Greenwich Village had bee the center of New York Cy’s LGBT muny, the bar was attractg a signifint number of gay men, although was not exclively a gay bar.

On April 21, 1966, three members of the Mattache Society, an early and fluential gay rights anizatn, anized what beme known as a “sip-. ” Their tent was to challenge New York State Liquor Authory regulatns that were promulgated so that bars uld not serve drks to known or spected gay men or lbians, sce their prence was nsired facto disorrly. The State Liquor Authory regulatns were one of the primary ernmental mechanisms of opprsn agast the gay muny bee preclud their right of ee assembly.

NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK

This was particularly important bee bars were one of the few plac where gay people uld meet each other. The sip- was part of a larger mpaign by more radil members of the Mattache Society to clarify laws and l that hibed the nng of gay bars as legimate, non-mob, tablishments and to stop the harassment of gay bar patrons.

When Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, John Timmons, and Randy Wicker announced that they were homosexuals and asked to be served a drk, the bartenr at Juli’ refed their requt. This refal received a great al of publicy, cludg articl the New York Tim and the Village Voice, at a time when issu volvg discrimatn agast gay people were not generally discsed the prs. The reactn by the State Liquor Authory and the newly empowered New York Cy Commissn on Human Rights rulted a change policy and the birth of a more open gay bar culture.

Scholars of gay history nsir the sip- at Juli’ as a key event leadg to the growth of legimate gay bars and the velopment of the bar as the central social space for urban gay men and lbians. By the 1960s, Juli’ began attractg gay men, although was not exclively a gay April 21, 1966, members of the Mattache Society, an early gay rights group, anized what beme known as the “Sip-In. ” Their tent was to challenge New York State Liquor Authory (SLA) regulatns that were promulgated so that bars uld not serve drks to known or spected gay men or lbians, sce their prence was nsired facto disorrly.

THE BT GAY BARS THE WT VILLAGE

The SLA regulatns were one of the primary ernmental mechanisms of opprsn agast the gay muny bee they preclud the right to ee assembly. The Sip-In was part of a larger mpaign by more radil members of the Mattache Society to clarify laws and l that hibed the nng of gay bars as legimate, non-mob tablishments and to stop the harassment of gay bar Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and John Timmons, acpanied by several reporters, went to a number of bars, announced that they were “homosexuals, ” and asked to be served a drk. This refal received publicy the New York Tim and the Village reactn by the State Liquor Authory and the newly-empowered New York Cy Commissn on Human Rights rulted a change policy and the birth of a more open gay bar culture.

Scholars of gay history nsir the Sip-In at Juli’ a key event leadg to the growth of legimate gay bars and the velopment of the bar as the central social space for urban gay men and lbians.

It started to attract a gay clientele the 1950s and is the olst gay bar the cy and the olst bar the April 21, 1966, four gay activists staged a "sip-" at Juli' to challenge the New York State Liquor Authory's regulatn prohibg bars and rtrants om servg gays. Acpanied by five reporters, the group vised a number of bars until they were nied service at Juli', a longtime Greenwich Village gay bar.

NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

The cint drew a nial om the SLA chairman that his agency told bars not to serve gays and precipated an vtigatn by the cy's Human Rights Commissn chairman. Skip to ma ntentSoHo-Ltle Italy, NYChelsea, NYGramercy-Murray Hill, NYEast Village, NYTribe-FiDi, NYHoboken, NJLower East Si-Chatown, NYMidtown-Hell's Kchen, NYBrooklyn Heights-DUMBO, NYBrooklyn, NYNew YorkTop Natnal NewsSee All CommuniWEST VILLAGE, NY — Juli' Bar the Wt Village, nsired the longt-nng gay bar the cy, was officially ma a New York Cy landmark on buildg at 159 W. Was signated a landmark for the role played advancg the rights of gay and lbian New Yorkers, the Landmarks Prervatn Commissn explaed a news release.

“As a gay man who enjoys untls eedoms that were unimagable their time, I owe enormo bt to the activists who ma Juli’ Bar the se of their prott. On April 21, 1966, a “Sip-In” was anized by members of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s earlit gay rights anizatns, to challenge the State Liquor Authory’s discrimatory policy of revokg the licens of bars that served known or spected gay men and lbians. The publicized event – at which they were refed service after tentnally revealg they were “homosexuals” – was one of the earlit pre-Stonewall public actns for LGBT rights as well as a big step forward the eventual velopment of legimate LGBT bars New York Cy.

JULI' BAR, SE OF HISTORIC GAY 'SIP-,' THREATENED BY PANMIC

By the 1960s, Juli’ began attractg gay men, although was not exclively a gay bar. On April 21, 1966, members of the Mattache Society, an early gay rights group, anized what beme known as the “Sip-In. The Sip-In was part of a larger mpaign by more radil members of the Mattache Society to clarify laws and l that hibed the nng of gay bars as legimate, non-mob tablishments and to stop the harassment of gay bar patrons.

Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and John Timmons, acpanied by several reporters, went to a number of bars, announced that they were “homosexuals, ” and asked to be served a drk. …when we walked , the bartenr put glass ont of , and we told him that we were gay and we tend to rema orrly, we jt wanted service.

And he said, hey, you’re gay, I n’t serve you, and he put his hands over the top of the glass, which ma wonrful photographs.