Juli' Bar, se of historic gay 'sip-,' threatened by panmic

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Juli’ Bar New York Cy, the se of a historic "sip-" held by gay activists three years before Stonewall, uld be shuttered by the panmic.

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JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK

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The cy lled the bar “one of the cy’s most signifint s of LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer) history” the news release.

Juli’ was the se of the 1966 “Sip-, ” a prott agast homophobic discrimatn – although at the time, the bar wasn’t an explicly LGBT space. Four men named Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, John Timmons, and Randy Wicker staged the event to prott the persecutn of gay men for drkg public, acrdg to the Natnal Park Service.

So bars often refed to serve clients who they knew were gay.

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At Juli’, the men announced they were gay – and the bartenr refed to serve them, sayg was illegal. “Gays uld legally drk a bar. And today, openly scrib self as a gay bar on s social media.

“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.

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

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.

ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS SIGNATED AS DIVIDUAL LANDMARK

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. ” 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 SLA regulatns were one of the primary ernmental mechanisms of opprsn agast the gay muny bee they preclud the right to ee assembly.

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Juli' Bar, se of historic gay 'sip-,' threatened by panmic.

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