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

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• JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK
• JULI'NEW YORK CYMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEON TODAYBARSLBIAN BARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASMASSAGECULTURESHOPSLGBT+ ATTRACTNSCY GUIGAY TOURSRTRANTSGAY BEACHGAY MAPGAY WEDDGSJULI'
• JULI' BAR, SE OF HISTORIC GAY 'SIP-,' THREATENED BY PANMIC
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS SIGNATED AS DIVIDUAL LANDMARK

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

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.

At Juli’, the men announced they were gay – and the bartenr refed to serve them, sayg was illegal. “Gays uld legally drk a bar.

JULI'NEW YORK CYMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEON TODAYBARSLBIAN BARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASMASSAGECULTURESHOPSLGBT+ ATTRACTNSCY GUIGAY TOURSRTRANTSGAY BEACHGAY MAPGAY WEDDGSJULI'

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. 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. ” 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. This was particularly important bee bars were one of the few plac where gay people uld meet each other.

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.

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

…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.