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Contents:
- ‘BLACK SAILS’ STAR TOBY STEPHENS TALKS FLT’S GAY ROMANCE: ‘HE BEME HIMSELF’ (VIO)
- PATRONS REMEMBER LONGTIME FLT-AREA GAY BAR AT PRI PARTY: ‘LOVE BREAKS DOWN BARRIERS’
- FUNERAL HOME OWNER WANTS TO TURN FLT-AREA GAY BAR TO JAZZ CLUB
- FLT GAY BAR ADAPTG TO CHANGG SCENE AS POPULARY GROWS AMONG STRAIGHT PATRONS
- GAY DATG FLT
- GENEE GAY MEN'S MEETUP
- FUNERAL HOME OWNER WANTS TO TURN FLT-AREA GAY BAR TO JAZZ CLUB
- ACTIVIST LLS FOR NAACP BOYTT AFTER LOL VP REFED TO SUPPORT GAY NDIDATE
- GAY MICHIGAN UPLE UPSET TEACHER WOULDN’T LET DGHTER WRE PAPER ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
‘BLACK SAILS’ STAR TOBY STEPHENS TALKS FLT’S GAY ROMANCE: ‘HE BEME HIMSELF’ (VIO)
Flt, who built a Midwtern drag dynasty om a ty gay bar River North, is the owner of the 52-year-old Baton Show Lounge — home of the longt-nng drag show the cy — and the founr of the natnal Miss Contental pageant for female impersonators. * flint gay *
Lee’s event, WednGAY, will take place downtown Flt’s Bsh Park om 6 p.
Lee said WednGAY will feature live performanc, dance petns and vendors.
PATRONS REMEMBER LONGTIME FLT-AREA GAY BAR AT PRI PARTY: ‘LOVE BREAKS DOWN BARRIERS’
Flt, MI---A new downtown event uld turn to a tradn for Flt’s LGBTQ muny. ‘Wedngay’ has been happeng every other week at Flt * flint gay *
Roby Lee, 32, of Flt, hyp up the crowd at his event, WednGAY, at Flt Cy Hard Cir on Sept.
FUNERAL HOME OWNER WANTS TO TURN FLT-AREA GAY BAR TO JAZZ CLUB
The scene at Club Triangle is changg. Once known for servg an almost exclively gay clientele, a more diverse crowd is g through the door, and owner Mike Contos is tryg to figure out the new bs mol for a gay bar that’s no longer jt a gay bar. * flint gay *
Lee began WednGAY 2021, before the cy of Flt had officially acknowledged June as Gay Pri Month, wh the purpose of creatg a safe space for the LGBTQ+ muny.
FLT GAY BAR ADAPTG TO CHANGG SCENE AS POPULARY GROWS AMONG STRAIGHT PATRONS
* flint gay *
[I’m] sick of no gay events or gay clubs or bars.
GAY DATG FLT
Social group for gay and bi men mid-Michigan. The foc is on group activi like book club, game nights, piics, not bars or hookups. Coupl and sgle men 18 up wele. * flint gay *
We have a gay muny, so let’s see if we n brg together, ” Lee said.
The Gloria Col Flt Public Library (FPL) is hostg a film screeng of Stonewall Risg, a movie about when police raid a popular gay bar Greenwich Village 1969 and the muny rpond wh vlent protts that lasted days.
GENEE GAY MEN'S MEETUP
“The Stonewall Rts marked a major turng pot the gay civil rights movement the US and around the world, ” acrdg to the event scriptn.
FUNERAL HOME OWNER WANTS TO TURN FLT-AREA GAY BAR TO JAZZ CLUB
The Flt Gay Pri Ftival will take place Riverbank Park om 2 p.
The event is to celebrate diversy Flt and affirm gay and transgenr dividuals, crease visibily and build a sense of muny. Pri Month heavily due to the Stonewall Uprisg June of 1969, where police officers raid the Stonewall Inn — a proment gay bar Manhattan, New York — and sparked natnwi prott and activism for the Gay Liberatn Movement.
Flt Gay Neighborhoods. The downtown area is full of great gay bars and is the te center of the cy’s LGBT activi, although ’s not really a gay neighborhood. There isn’t one area where the cy’s gay and lbian rints tend to clter.
ACTIVIST LLS FOR NAACP BOYTT AFTER LOL VP REFED TO SUPPORT GAY NDIDATE
Flt Gay Realtors. (Chris Sweda / Chigo Tribune)“Where I e om, wh 13 kids public hog, I never thought I would have this many iends the room on my 80th birthday, ” he said, sudnly chokg back, who built a Midwtern drag dynasty om a ty gay bar River North, is the owner of the 52-year-old Baton Show Lounge — home of the longt-nng drag show the cy — and the founr of the natnal Miss Contental pageant for female Baton, now Uptown, has drawn stars such as Joan Crawford, Madonna, Ja Jackson and Rock Hudson — a good iend who ed to ve Flt to stay his California home when the Chigo drag imprar was the 1970s and ‘80s, transgenr performers om the Baton broke barriers wh terviews on the Phil Donahue Show and Oprah more recently, Flt’s performers and pageant nttants have gone on to TV shows such as “Transparent” (Alexandra Billgs), “Dirty Sexy Money” (Candis Cayne) and “RuPl’s Drag Race” (Brooke Lynn Hyt).
“Jim’s ndidacy wasn’t treated very serly, but he got vot every sgle ward, as an openly gay ndidate and owner of a drag bar — the 1980s, ” said Tracy Baim, -publisher of the Rear and -thor of the 2011 book, “Jim Flt: The Boy om Peoria. ”“That is a phenomenal achievement that really woke up a lot of the (LGBTQ) muny, as well as the mastream polil world, about how gay people and our alli are everywhere.
”Flt’s hardscrabble childhood Peoria is tailed Baim’s book: Born 1941, the fourth of 13 children of a mechanic and a short-orr ok, he worked as a shohe boy gra school, and his fay moved to public hog when he was sixth me out to his mom as gay at age 14, and moved out of his parents’ home at 15, unwillg to nceal his sexual orientatn om his dad. This was the days when police still raid gay bars, mobsters found ways to siphon off their profs, and newspapers published lists of those arrted police raids, g reers and stroyg was arrted police raids more than 16 tim, acrdg to Baim’s book. Roby Lee, 32, of Flt, hyp up the crowd at his event, Wedngay, at Flt Cy Hard Cir on Sept.
GAY MICHIGAN UPLE UPSET TEACHER WOULDN’T LET DGHTER WRE PAPER ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
‘Wedngay’ has been happeng every other week at Flt Cy Hard Cir sce Augt. A dance party wh a new theme every week, Wedngay has brought more than 100 participants durg s first three events, somethg s creator Roby Lee said he’s been happy to see as his goal was to create a safe space for members of the LGBTQ muny.
He soon me up wh the ia for a gay night and started workg on puttg together.