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Contents:

• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
• LUNCHTIME SEX PARTI FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN NEW YORK CY 
• GAY MEN OUT FOR LUNCH
• THE PLANTATN HOE BY GAYLORDS
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

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Atlanta had Waterworks, which a 1992 newsletter for the group Black and Whe Men Together lled the cy’s “only Black-owned gay rtrant.

LUNCHTIME SEX PARTI FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN NEW YORK CY 

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Three 20-somethg gay men shared i. Katas says nobody her fay is gay, yet Annie’s surely is.

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GAY MEN OUT FOR LUNCH

”Derr Andra and Zack Sands weren’t lookg for a gay rtrant when they moved to Dupont Circle four years ago. ”For Steve Herman, 79, who has eaten at Annie’s sce 1976, that reason is the fact that Dupont Circle isn’t as gay as once was. “I thk ’s a great thg that gay people are more mastream and fortable gog other plac, ” he said.

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THE PLANTATN HOE BY GAYLORDS

Chncey wr his book “Gay New York. People phed back agast a police roundup by g ffee and doughnuts as the 1980s, Florent was a refuge for gay New Yorkers durg the worst years of AIDS. ” He tried to say more, but choked Green Bay, Wis., Napale Lounge and Grille looks as gay as a chee curd.

When straight upl brg children to the unpretent brick buildg for chicken tenrs on weekends, the place feels more like an Applebee’s than the almost 40, Naps, as regulars ll , is the olst gay bar and rtrant Green Bay, acrdg to Arnold Penrgast, 61, who has owned wh his hband, Stacy Dotel, 56, sce 2012. Lols gather for chary drag shows and to watch Packers gam over baskets of fat and crispy beer-battered d bee ’s one of the few gay optns town.

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A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.