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Contents:

• A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
• "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
• ‘IT’S SACRED’: A GAY REFUGE, TURNED INTO A WAR ZONE
• GAY BARELECTRIC SIXTRACK 8 ON FIRE  PRODUCED BYSTUART BRADBURY & DAMIEN MENDISMAY. 20, 20031 VIEWER48.5K VIEWS14 CONTRIBUTORSGAY BAR LYRICSGIRL!I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARLET'S START A WAR, START A NUCLEAR WARAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!AT THE GAY BARNOW TELL ME DO YA, A DO YA HAVE ANY MONEY?I WANNA SPEND ALL YOUR MONEYAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYEAH! YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARSUPERSTARSUPER, SUPER, SUPERSTARYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE3EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS

“The entire intifitn [of the remas] was summarily dismissed by cy ernment bee they simply did not want to go through the effort of notifyg his fay and also bee they simply didn’t re about another ad gay man, ” Morrell said.

"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS

Robert Fieler, journalist and thor of “Trbox: The Untold Story of the UpStairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn, ” chronicled the tragic event not jt his book but to the cy uncil and “anyone who would listen. His book tails the aftermath of the fire, which was no ls trmatic – fai ashamed to claim loved on, the church this eply Catholic cy refg proper burial rights, and a botched vtigatn all reflected a world of toxic prejudice and rampant homophobia that thrived after the fire. He tracked down survivors of the fire and relativ and iends of those killed to pile an acunt of a fotten moment gay history his book, “Let the Faggots Burn: The UpStairs Lounge Fire.

The 1994 documentary Comg Out Unr Fire giv voice to the experienc of thoands of gay and lbian servicemembers who joed the ary durg World War II, a story that is largely ignored by historians and mms across the untry. Gay and lbian recs were forced to answer qutns vaguely, or lie about their sexualy, orr to be allowed to serve; otherwise, they would n the risk of beg sent home and brand as “sex perverts.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS

We sat down wh Sir John Dermot Turg, Alan Turg’s nephew and thor of a new book on Bletchley Park, to discs his uncle’s role pivotal role puter science and his persecutn for beg gay the 1950s. Whisnant:As early as the turn of the century, Berl's gay scene was attractg such notoriety that equently was mentned tourist lerature, liftg up the cy's gay scene as proof of the evils of urban life and the dangers of morny; them, Berl beme the untry's Sodom and Gomorrah put together, a sure sign of the land's the stag of Berl, the Tiller Girls showed off their legs, dancg a Rockett-style performance that amazed and tillated spectators. "Diverse, but DividMagn Hirschfeld, a Jewish German physician, sexologist and pneerg gay rights advote, was well acquated wh Berl's scene and mented on the diversy among the bars.

‘IT’S SACRED’: A GAY REFUGE, TURNED INTO A WAR ZONE

By far the most famo was the Eldorado a nightclub whose ftive atmosphere attracted not only homosexuals but also artists, thors, celebri, and tourists wantg to admire a piece of "nt" Berl or tch a glimpse of someone Lbian Club SceneLbians uld also be found some of the bars that were voted mostly to gay men [and were] often seen the larger clubs of the 1920s, such as the Topp and the Eldorado. The Dorian Gray, one of the olst and bt-known gay clubs by the Weimar era, had a special night set asi for the turn of the century, there were also a handful of exclively lbian bars the cy.

The atmosphere was generally refed; the lightg was soft and sentimental mic played the of the most famo was Chez Ma Belle Sor on Marburger Strasse, rated Greek-style and furnished wh private booths, where upl uld take refuge behd the gay bars, many of the lbian bars were segregated somewhat by class. One French observer of the cy around the turn of the century noted that gay balls were held often several tim a week different clubs durg the ftive season between October and Easter. They would s down to eat at tabl led wh flowers; the director, drsed a "gay velvet jacket, " would greet the guts and give a short dner, the tabl would be put away, and the orchtra would beg playg waltz and other lively dancg mic while the upl would dance through the night.

The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, began the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted Greenwich Village New York Cy. For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry. However, the New York State Liquor Authory penalized and shut down tablishments that served alhol to known or spected LGBT dividuals, argug that the mere gatherg of homosexuals was “disorrly.

GAY BARELECTRIC SIXTRACK 8 ON FIRE  PRODUCED BYSTUART BRADBURY & DAMIEN MENDISMAY. 20, 20031 VIEWER48.5K VIEWS14 CONTRIBUTORSGAY BAR LYRICSGIRL!I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BARI WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARLET'S START A WAR, START A NUCLEAR WARAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!AT THE GAY BARNOW TELL ME DO YA, A DO YA HAVE ANY MONEY?I WANNA SPEND ALL YOUR MONEYAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUI'VE GOT SOMETHG TO PUT YOUAT THE GAY BAR, GAY BAR, GAY BARWOW!YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYEAH! YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARYOU'RE A SUPERSTAR, AT THE GAY BARSUPERSTARSUPER, SUPER, SUPERSTARYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE3EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U.

In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did.

When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi. Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para.

”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny. Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time were operated by the Mafia, who paid rptible police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them. After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village.

" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay unintified group of young people celebrate outsi the board-up Stonewall Inn after the rts.

”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement.

I wanna spend all your moneyAt the gay bar gay bar gay barThe outlandish vio was directed by Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire, the same team that did the equally absurd vio for "Danger!

Rearch by Smaal and his lleague, renowned Atralian LGBT+ historian Graham Willett, found that the US reported to Atralia that they had disvered a large number of servicemen New Guea havg gay sex – and that Atralians were volved. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTReporter's Swift for The New York TimJune 13, 2016I remember my therapist’s advice when I was a 22-year-old, not yet out-of-the-closet gay man livg Washgton — uncerta, unhappy, knew that I wasn’t prepared to walk to a gay club — wasn’t prepared to acknowledge what that meant — so she remend a kd of emotnal promise: Go to one, walk around and then leave.

To fully grasp the unique horror of what happened si Pulse — a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., that beme the se of the worst mass shootg Ameri — you have to unrstand the outsize role that gay bars play the history, liv and imagatn of gay are refug and havens, plac where, the moment you cross the thrhold, there is an unspoken unrstandg: You will feel accepted and Orlando, that ncept was perverted and upend the most btal way imagable. The safe harbor beme a bloody ath was a gay bar that had liberated me and so many of my peers, once we fally summoned the urage to stick around and take a seat, puttg on a long path toward that change now? Smaller-sle attacks have occurred at bars across the are shocks, every time, precisely bee the spac exist to shelter their habants om the slights and salli of the is no accint that a major turng pot the morn gay-rights movement took place at a gay bar.

ViotranscripttranscriptA Day of Mourng for the Gay CommunyIn support of the victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., hundreds gathered outsi the Stonewall Inn New York, where a rt 1969 helped lnch the gay rights support of the victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., hundreds gathered outsi the Stonewall Inn New York, where a rt 1969 helped lnch the gay rights Sunday night, ont of the Stonewall Inn, I met a 52-year-old gay activist, David Drake. ”He spoke of the thoands of young gay, bisexual and transgenr people who flock to bars and clubs the Wt Village: “Night after night after night, the kids e down here bee they feel like ’s their safe space. Cecil/Alamy)But while plac like San Francis and Los Angel have famoly helped tablish California as an LGBTQ+ bastn, the state is home to another gay hub that is often overshadowed by the other ci: San Diego.

In his book Comg Out Unr Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women World War II, historian Allan Bébé explaed that the cy's role as a major ary headquarters advertently created a nascent gay scene durg the war.

Gay bars like Bradley's and Blue Jacket San Diego's Gaslamp District attracted so many people that the cy was featured the 1952 book USA Confintial about Ameri's "s spots", while clubs like the Seven Seas and Jack's Steam acted as a cisg ground for gay men.

"Hillcrt is affectnately known as San Diego's "gayborhood" (Cred: Dana Delimont/Alamy)Nowadays, the hub of the cy's LGBTQ+ muny is Hillcrt, where a rabow-l sign and rabow flags flappg over die book shops, f and vtage clothg shops remd visors why the area is dubbed San Diego's "gayborhood". When the sun dips down behd the horizon, you n follow the mic along Universy Avenue to dance the night away at Rich's, Hillcrt's most popular gay nightclub, which has been featured on shows like the Real Hoewiv of Beverly Hills.