Detro gay history: The Espe Bar, Detro Michigan (Gay bar)

Contents:

• HUNDREDS REMISCE ABOUT HISTORIL DETRO GAY BAR SCENE
• GAY DETRO TRAVEL GUI
• CURSID: DID DETRO EVER HAVE A ‘GAYBORHOOD’?
• GAY DETRO TRAVEL GUI

HUNDREDS REMISCE ABOUT HISTORIL DETRO GAY BAR SCENE

The history of the LGBT muny metro Detro spans the cy’s past, but took new shape right after World War II when gay clubs began openg mostly downtown. This gay-owned Spanish tapas rtrant featur a lp of tradnal tapas, which are meant to be eaten small portns while sippg on the spot’s hoe-ma sangria or a craft cktail.

This relative newer to the cy’s nightlife scene isn’t explicly a gay bar, but ’s fely LGBTQ-clive, om s management to the event programmg on hand.

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$$ · Gay Bar. The first a three-part seri of panel discsns, this one on the history gay bars Detro, drew a crowd of more than 250 people to the Olymp Theater Saturday night.

CURSID: DID DETRO EVER HAVE A ‘GAYBORHOOD’?

“The first gay neighborhood was downtown along Monroe Street the cy’s theater district, ” Haller told the crowd. Sappgton enjoyed gog to gay bars long before she created her Metra magaze, which would chronicle the gay bar scene 1979.

“I always hung out gay bars, ” Sappgton said. “I had a hair shop Romeo, Michigan, and I advertised the only gay paper that I knew of, which was Metro Gay News.

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“Too many plac gave a hard time bee we were gay, ” Sappgton said.

Torchy talked to the crowd about the magnu of the gay bar scene Detro the 1970s. “There were 45 gay bars and five steam baths, ” Torchy said.

But, size or not, there was a st to dog bs wh the gay muny. “Even if you go back far enough you’ll fd was illegal to serve a known homosexual at a bar anyway.

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After World War II, downtown Detro was a hub for gay bars. Then, startg the 1950s, the gay populatn began followg the migratn pattern of many Metro Detroers, headg northward.

Today, the area around Six Mile Road and Woodward Avenue has remaed a hub for the Ain Amerin gay muny. ‘Michigan’s Gayt Square Mile’. Greg Piazza, a former Palmer Park rint, rells, “There was one buildg we lled ‘The Barracks’: 48 apartment uns, 46 of them were gay men.

Piazza, thor of A History of Detro’s Palmer Park, says the archecture of the buildgs, open-md management, and some child-ee livg polici, attracted a strong gay ntgent.

Piazza remembers eight bars, two gay-iendly bookstor and two rtrants. On a recent Thursday, a small crowd has already gathered at Menjos, an inic gay club that’s been on Six Mile Road near Woodward sce the early 1970’s.