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Contents:
- WHAT IS WISNS’S LONGT NNG GAY BAR?
- BJ'S CAROEL, DENVER'S LONGT-NNG GAY BAR, WILL CLOSE JULY 31
- A HILBROW MIXTAPE: THE HISTORY OF SKYLE, SA'S LONGT NNG GAY BAR
- SAN FRANCIS’S OLD-SCHOOL GAY BARS ARE DISAPPEARG AS THE CY CHANG
- INIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BAR TO SHUTTER PANMIC FALLOUT
WHAT IS WISNS’S LONGT NNG GAY BAR?
In the three-pl s sce Bob Engel opened BJ's Caroel (1380 South Broadway), Denver's longt-nng gay bar has gone through a number of ups and downs, om the oil boom and bt to losg a number of ctomers to AIDS the '80s to takg a tough h the... * longest continuously running gay bar *
Eagle, the District of Columbia's olst gay bar, announced to employe via a Zoom meetg on Monday that will be shutterg s doors permanently, acrdg to the Washgton shutterg of the D. 's olst gay bar had been up for sale before the panmic. A five part seri examg the gay and lbian muny Milwkee.
A number of gay bars Jackson Heights have a big followg Queens, but Friend’s Tavern is one of the most popular. The longt-nng gay bar the cy, this Wt Village stutn proudly displays s history. Juli is one of the olst gay bars NYC.
BJ'S CAROEL, DENVER'S LONGT-NNG GAY BAR, WILL CLOSE JULY 31
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Ground zero for the 1969 rts that helped lnch the gay rights movement, Stonewall is still a rog, though very touristy, Village statn to pay tribute to the movement. This popular and cheerful gay bar occupi a roomy, thoughtfully signed space wh a backyard South Williamsburg.
In the three-pl s sce Bob Engel opened BJ's Caroel (1380 South Broadway), Denver's longt-nng gay bar has gone through a number of ups and downs, om the oil boom and bt to losg a number of ctomers to AIDS the '80s to takg a tough h the... In the three-pl s sce Bob Engel opened BJ's Caroel (1380 South Broadway), Denver's longt-nng gay bar has gone through a number of ups and downs, om the oil boom and bt to losg a number of ctomers to AIDS the '80s to takg a tough h the recent enomic cle.
A HILBROW MIXTAPE: THE HISTORY OF SKYLE, SA'S LONGT NNG GAY BAR
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That attu was part of what ma BJ's "Denver's iendlit gay bar and rtrant, " as bills self on s webse. "There have been a lot of people who have e through the doors, and 's their first time ever beg a gay bar, " Engel says. When BJ's fally clos s doors, Engel is urgg regulars to head down the block to the Black Crown Lounge (1446 South Broadway), a gay-iendly piano bar that opened May.
In 1974, Larry Hebert stepped si a gay bar for the first time. Even now, wh the cy long sce transformed om an Iowa-by-the-sea to a progrsive mec, Club Rippl is part of the soul of Long Beach’s gay muny. And then, Long Beach’s olst, ntuoly nng gay bar will shutter for good.
The bar opened 1972, three years after a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Lower Manhattan, sparked vlent clash between police and the LGBT muny — kick-startg the gay-rights movement. The reactns om those who feared or hated gay people was, at tim, vlent. Before Stonewall, and for years after, gay bars were the only place the muny uld go to feel safe and be themselv, said Marie Cartier, thor of “Baby, You are My Relign: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall.
SAN FRANCIS’S OLD-SCHOOL GAY BARS ARE DISAPPEARG AS THE CY CHANG
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Gay bar culture, cludg at Rippl and other lol tablishments. “The gay bar for people pre-Stonewall was lerally where they uld pull the gayns out of themselv, ” Cartier, a Long Beach rint, said an terview. In the 1960s and early ’70s, beg gay was still nsired by many a mental illns, and even the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn didn’t remove om the list of mental disorrs until 1973.
Every relign, Cartier said, emed those who were gay sners and unf to be parents. So, Cartier add, the gay bar beme the muny’s church.
“The gay bar was the only place where somebody would look at you as a iend, ” she said, “and not immediately as all of those bad thgs. Still, the gay muny need each other — perhaps more than ever.
INIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BAR TO SHUTTER PANMIC FALLOUT
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On June 12, 2016, a man named Omar Mateen walked to a gay nightclub Florida lled Pulse. “Some people didn’t even have a funeral, ” Cartier said about the Pulse victims, “bee their blogil fay members wouldn’t pick up their (ceased) fay members — bee they were gay.