Big Gay Hudson Valley - Queer & LGBTQ+ Life Upstate New York

Contents:

• GAY CRUISING AFTER DARK - HY PARK ROSE GARN
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
• GAY CRUISING AFTER DARK - HY PARK ROSE GARN
• THE HISTORY OF GAY PRI AT HY PARK, LONDON
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• CISG LONDON: 17 PLAC GAY GUYS MEET FOR GENERAL PUBLIC TERURSE, ACRDG TO WEB SE

GAY CRUISING AFTER DARK - HY PARK ROSE GARN

24 plac sorted by traveler favorBars & Clubs • Gay BarsTrafalgar Square / EmbankmentGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissTrafalgar Square / EmbankmentBars & Clubs • Gay BarsLeicter Square / Shaftbury AvenueWhat travelers are saygBier than expected but service was fast and iendly. Loted the heart of London, Comptons is a mt-vis gay pub that guarante an credible experience.

THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON

Brilliant staff (pecially Jack, the fabulo bar manager and cktail maker), fabulo cktails and a relaxed atmosphere for all whether gay, straight or somethg else. A beguilg, alternative London gay bar.

Chanc are, if you’re readg this, you’ve heard somethg fabulo about Upstate New York or you’ve wonred to yourself “is the Hudson Valley gay iendly? Workg your way up the river, one of the first towns wh our Big Gay Hudson Valley is the village of Cold Sprg Putnam County. Well known for ’s adventurome mayor – who was the first to marry gay and lbian upl 2004 – this is one of the funkier llege towns of the Hudson Valley.

GAY CRUISING AFTER DARK - HY PARK ROSE GARN

While you’re there, be sure to check out one of s gay-owned shops or tch a fabulo pnnt film at Upstate Films. Loted on eher si of the Rip Van Wkle Bridge, the two towns are packed wh gay life.

The furtht of the statns on our lol map, gay life the Cy of Hudson is driven primarily by Trixie Starr, the head of the Hudson Pri Foundatn and the anizer of the town’s Pri Para. It feels a ltle like you’ve taken a step back time once you arrive, but even Catskill has s own gay bar; Doubl II. On 1st July 1972, a crowd of a few hundred people marched om Hy Park to Trafalgar Square, makg a stand for gay people landmark event LGBTQ+ history also forms an important chapter the story of Speakers’ Corner – an area of Hy Park that has been ed by prottors sce the mid sufagett and socialists to anti-war prottors and the Black Liv Matter movement, Speakers’ Corner has borne wns to many major social and polil movements Brish History.

THE HISTORY OF GAY PRI AT HY PARK, LONDON

Stonewall and the Gay Liberatn FrontThe march was anised by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), a group first formed New York followg the famo Stonewall Rts of 1969.

The took place followg a police raid on a gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. The LGBTQ+ muny there – sick of discrimatn and btaly at the hands of thori – cid to make a uprisg sparked a wave of prott and spired the formatn of new groups mandg equal rights for gay people. Liberatn LondonIn the UK, the gay muny also faced prejudice, spe the Sexual Offenc Act of 1967 which had partially crimalised homosexual acts.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Interview wh a Pri veteran Simon Watney (left) at the first Pri march Hy Park Photograph urty of Simon Watney Prent at those early London meetgs of the GLF was Simon Watney – a veteran of the gay rights movement who also attend the first march om Hy Park was a stunt at Ssex Universy when he first got volved wh GLF. He ntu: ‘The sixti were only swgg for heterosexuals, not for lbians or gay men.

’ Some parts of the gay and lbian muni nmned the march, feelg that uld attract negative others, says Simon, was a ‘great big surpl overflow of energy, enthiasm and fun – partyg the streets, termed not to accept the stat quo.

CISG LONDON: 17 PLAC GAY GUYS MEET FOR GENERAL PUBLIC TERURSE, ACRDG TO WEB SE

‘There’s an visible history there’, he Legacy of the Gay Liberatn Front. Simon rells the parti held at town halls Camn, Chelsea and Hammersmh and the special tert groups for gay people that spng up – ‘groups for gay teachers, gay hikers, gay stamp llectors’. ‘Gay pri is somethg we n all be proud of.

Chigo's gayborhoods (LGBTQ+ neighborhoods) and safe spac have been important to the cy's LGBTQ+ rights movement—and savg them post-COVID may be ccial.

The analysis shows many thgs: the gentrifitn squeeze om Boystown (Northalsted) to Anrsonville, the spread and importance of LGBTQ+ safe spac post-Stonewall and even a historil tenncy for gayborhoods to flourish on the North Si— up-and-g upper and middle-class areas boosted by gay-owned bs. It also shows gay physil safe spac don't appear to be cedg to apps and social media.

They show patterns the succs and obstacl for Chigo's inic gayborhoods.

Today, Chigo is a rare cy supportg multiple thrivg gayborhoods—but greater LGBTQ+ acceptance and gentrifitn is threateng to disperse the historil jewels. First, 's important to spotlight the importance of gayborhoods.