A Brief Timele of Disney's 17 'First Gay Characters'

Contents:

• GAY BARS NEAR ME
• MYRTLE BEACH GAY TRAVEL
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE BT GAY BARS BOSTON
• GAY BASS
• BAS IS GAY
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• CHIGO GAY BARS STOP SELLG BUD LIGHT BEER
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• IN 'LAST CALL', A SERIAL KILLER TARGETS MANHATTAN'S '90S GAY BARS. INSI THE TE STORY
• THE 10 BEST R JANEIRO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS R JANEIRO
• THE 10 BEST THAILAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS THAILAND
• GAY BARS, RTURANTS, BATHS & HANG OUTS? - TIJUANA FOM
• GAY BARS CORDOBA - CORDOBA FOM
• BT GAY BARS TEL AVIV
• THE BEST WARSAW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WARSAW
• 'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY
• THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

GAY BARS NEAR ME

It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria. A gay gatherg spot sce 1939, and gay bar sce 1963, and the Bar Complex sce the 80s, s unassumg exterr beli a triple-threat treat of lounge, performance space, and a mirrored dance club reportedly moled after Stud 54.

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If you want to get away om the typil scene at fellow gay bars Olly’s and Gregs Our Place, English Ivy is an ial place to meet iends: mature enough for a proper Ladi Lunch (or bnch or dner. It’s not a gay bar the tradnal sense, but a place where traed pianists play selectns om Broadway shows and all of the drama teachers and mil theater majors of the tri-state area nverge to sg along. It was the se of an early gay-liberatn “sip ” 1966, years before Stonewall, and has been a low-key haven ever sce, wh a diverse clientele, a small menu, classic cktails, and an extensive (and packed) 4:00-7:00 happy hour.

CourtyWashgton DC: TraIn a town where n feel like every other bar is crawlg wh Capol Hill staffers lookg to talk shop, Tra is the rare, glorly gay dive where absolutely everyone is wele to jt kick back.

Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street. Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach. Generally, slap bass forms the basis of gay bass and tends to be short, quick, repetive ns that are quirky and mak people want to get on the dance floor to perform unorthodox dance bassist n plete the 'Gay Bass' look by beg shirtls or wearg spanx-like 'Is that gay bass that song?

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.

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“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them.

Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned.

GAY BASS

In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.

The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.

“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth.

BAS IS GAY

14 plac sorted by traveler favorGay Bars • SpasFriedrichsha-Krzberg (Borough)Gay BarsFriedrichsha-Krzberg (Borough)Gay BarsFriedrichsha-Krzberg (Borough)What travelers are saygI thk Der Boiler is one of the bt snas Europe. Show, he portrayed a pair of postal lovers readg Walt Whman (cultural privilege), wh a bottle of poppers (sexual license) and a potted orchid (bourgeois luxury) on a table, obliv to a tragedy that is occurrg outsi their wdow: the self-immolatn of David Buckel, a proment gay-rights lawyer and environmental activist who killed himself Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, 2018, as a prott agast fossil fuel nsumptn. ” He ma another patg om a tail of two hands raised above the water The Battle of Casca, one of the few non-homoerotic bs that unrealized work by Michelangelo of soldiers bathg a river.

“The Young and Evil, ” a show at David Zwirner curated by Jarrett Earnt 2019, displayed the work of a terie of ternnected gay New York artists om the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s: Pl Cadm, Pavel Tchelchew, Gee Platt Lyn, Jared French, and Gee Tooker chief among them. “Through the patgs and my relatnships, I am tryg to draw a le between growg up a nservative Islamic untry and beg an thentic heror of the liberatn movements of gay men that happened the 1970s and ’80s here, ” said Toor, who travels om his East Village apartment to vis his fay and iends Lahore every year.

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.

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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.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. Wisns has long been a forenner LGBTQ+ advocy, ever sce was the first state to pass anti-discrimatn legislatn for the LGBTQ muny 1982, givg the tle of "the first gay rights state.

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

"Here are five stori that scratch the surface of the Fox Ci' LGBTQ muny and Lambda Lounge: Appleton's first gay barThroughout the late 20th century, gay people primarily found muny through the bar scene, often seen as a safe space for LGBTQ people to socialize. Appleton's first gay bar, the Lambda Lounge, opened downtown 1977 by partners Pl DeB and Gene DeB, Pl's sister, said the two bought the bar om Claire Kempky who ran Doris' Super Bar, a bs wh a reputatn as a hangout spot for gay people. " The bar opened 1977 and was Appleton's first gay the bar wasn't openly advertised as a gay bar for the safety of s patrons, people knew of through word of mouth and natnal gay bar guis, such as the Damron Gui.

Rearcher for the Universy of Wisns-Green Bay's "Our Voic: LGBTQ+ Stori of Northeastern Wisns" Dennis Jab said bar patrons often experienced backlash om Appleton rints who believed homosexualy was wrong and didn't like havg a gay bar patrons were safe to be themselv si the bar, Jabs said people knew to not enter or leave the bar alone as they faced vlence om straight people and many fights took place outsi the bar.

CHIGO GAY BARS STOP SELLG BUD LIGHT BEER

However, the Lambda Lounge's prence Appleton paved the way for other LGBTQ bars, such as The ReMixx Neenah, Rasls Appleton and the now-closed Pivot A Neenah LGBTQ club is creatg a growg love for drag shows the Fox CiMore: Rasls has long been a gay refuge AppletonBook clubs allow gay people to fd munyBook clubs have often been a place for people wh shared inti to fd muny while discsg lerature pertag to their liv and provi a safe space for gays and lbians to socialize, Appleton Public Library llectns ordator Michael Nz and Lawrence Universy Profsor Dick Wslow found a book club named the Lavenr Salon 15 years, the group met each Sunday members' hom wh potluck meals and discsns on books and club was exclive to gay people, so members — whether they were openly gay or not — were able to be themselv and safely meet other people the LGBTQ muny.

Participatn the club grew om seven members to over 60 at a time, brgg people om Marette and Sheboygan for the weekly stunts' fight for gay-straight alliance clubDurg the turn of the century, stunts Madison and Milwkee high schools started creatg gay-straight allianc, or GSA clubs, to provi supportive environments for LGBTQ word about the clubs grew, a number of stunts at Neenah High School 2001, cludg Nick Ross — a current Appleton School Board member — wanted to create an official club for LGBTQ stunts to discs experienc and issu they were gog of the stunts were already LGBTQ support groups at the school and the muny, but Ross said was important for them to create an official group to give visibily to LGBTQ stunts and let other stunts know there was a safe space the school to discs their, when the stunts applied for club regnn, Neenah High School Prcipal Mark Duerwaechter nied them, sayg a GSA has polil goals and would go agast district policy, acrdg to Post-Crcent archiv. "It was extremely terrifyg and sry for all the reasons of beg out public as LGBTQ, but also super excg bee we put ourselv out there and ma thgs happen, " Ross Neenah stunts' ph for a GSA and the attentn gathered the Fox Ci spired other stunts to create the club their own schools and a year later all three Appleton high schools had a High School Gay Straight Alliance club om an Oct.

"In the last 15 years wh the cy of Appleton, we were dog some pretty active support of LGBTQ folks bee we were tired of seeg teens harmed and havg hate crim our parks, " Flor, who also prevly served as Appleton's diversy ordator, told The first time Appleton got volved LGBTQ issu was 2012 when the cy passed domtic partnership protectn for gay cy employe and their a time when same-sex marriage wasn't legal, domtic partnership benefs allowed cy employe and their partners the same benefs as spo, such as health surance and sick next time the cy got volved LGBTQ issu was Augt 2013 when the cy passed fair hog based on genr inty and exprsn, beg the third cy the state to ban hog discrimatn for transgenr people. Several Chigo-area gay bars have stopped sellg Anhser-Bch products rponse to the beer giant’s attempts to distance self om a marketg mpaign that Bud Light unrtook wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. 2Bears Tavern Group, which owns four gay bars on the cy’s north si — Meetg Hoe Tavern, 2Bears Tavern Uptown, The SoFo Tap, and Jackhammer — posted to Instagram last week that would disntue sal of all Anhser-Bch products, cludg popular beers Bch Light, Bud Light, and Goose Island 312, as first reported by Block Club Chigo.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

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HBO’s doceri “Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked New York” has gaed tractn sce premiered on July four-part seri vtigat the stori surroundg a serial killer who targeted gay men a seri of btal murrs and dismemberments the 1990s.

IN 'LAST CALL', A SERIAL KILLER TARGETS MANHATTAN'S '90S GAY BARS. INSI THE TE STORY

"Like his victims, who were bisexual and gay, Rogers is a gay man, per his trial ’s book go over some of his bgraphil tails: Rogers was the elst of five children born to a fay Plymouth, had had n-s wh the law before for siarly morbid allegatns. A total of four murrs were brought up at his trial, but he was only charged Thomas Mulhy and Anthony Marrero’s four victims were middle-aged, gay or bisexual men, last seen at gay bars Manhattan.

In July 1993, Michael Sakara, a gay man his 50s, left Five Oaks Piano Bar, where he was a regular, wh Rogers and was never seen the killgs, evince prented durg Rogers’ trial stated that he stopped visg the bars. Tripadvisor performs checks on club is a b tfar om cy centre but safe enough to go by mic, a mixed crowd and nu waers mak the perfect party gredients for a long fun gay night outWrten Febary 24, 2016This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Is Yahoo Entertament's vio terview seri explorg the impact of show bs on the velopment and well-beg of former child entertaers, om triumphs to Bass knew he was gay when he was 5, but, as a teenager one of the biggt mic acts of the '90s, he kept quiet about .

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Tripadvisor performs checks on, France222 ntributnsOne of the popular gay dance club Bangkok, which loted silom soi 2, they play a great mic every night and all night until 2 pm, every night is a baret show.

We’re at one pot time the 80s and early 90s Key Wt was very bohemian wh their gay nightlife morphed to prent a key wt where they ter to all the street people like a eak act, very disappotg.

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

Now, Jeena wanted to talk about queer spac that she'd never even been to, but which existed her small-town Florida 90s childhood as the almost fabled plac that everyone town knew as the gay and lbian bar.

GAY BARS, RTURANTS, BATHS & HANG OUTS? - TIJUANA FOM

The pany has never been known for s great LGBTQ+ reprentatn or polics, but 's e unr even more scty than ual after fans learned that the pany was donatg money to legislators Florida backg that state's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Disney and Marvel Studs proudly announced that 2019 they had troduced their first gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, only to have fans fd out that was an unnamed character one scene played by the movie's straight -director. MacGregor, played by Jack Whehall, was supposed to be Disney's "first major gay character" when Jungle Cise was set to be released way back 2019, but bee of the global panmic, the film was layed until 2021. After news broke that Disney not only donated to legislators backg anti-gay bills, but also repeatedly cut queer ntent om their movi, Pixar cid to rtore a scene the Lightyear film where a female character named Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) kiss her female partner.

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Comedian Jaboie Young-Whe will be voicg a new character the upg animated film Strange World who is volved "the first openly gay teen romance a Disney feature" acrdg to Twter er Matthiew Saghezchi, who saw a clip om the film at the Annecy 2022 ftival.

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Pater Hernan Bas is known for unabashedly dabblg the gltery realm of cliché, populatg his work wh red ros, flamgos, and most recently, fairi, as a whimsil retort to the perpetual tag of neo-romantic, Miami-based, gay artist. Bas is gay and queerns often fluenc his work the form of waifs and other young men, typilly recurrent characters his owns a buildg Detro that was renovated by Nila Kupes and Adam Lee Miller, the uple behd Detro electronic mic act Adult. Far om protectg , he and his admistratn have strand , packg feral urts wh judg hostile to gay rights, barrg transgenr Amerins om ary service and givg a green light to Amerins who, cg relig beliefs, don’t want to give medil re or bake a ke.

As gay and transgenr Amerins prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg on June 28, we hab a state of gnive dissonance, starg at a spl screen: sults om the Whe Hoe on one half of , posive rercement om elsewhere on the Krzaczynski/Agence France-Prse, via Getty ImagDemocrats’ embrace of Buttigieg, the first openly gay polician to land the top tier of printial ndidat, illtrat the trajectory beyond Tmp.

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In Colorado, five Republin lawmakers voted favor of a bill that banned anti-gay nversn therapy for mors, and six Republins, cludg some of the same on, voted to make easier for transgenr people to have the genr on their birth certifit changed. Tmp has nomated and the Senate has nfirmed many jurists wh explic, unabashed hostily to gay and transgenr rights, cludg, jt days ago, Matthew Kacsmaryk, who received a lifetime appotment as a Uned Stat district judge for the Northern District of Texas. This is a man who 2015 wrote that gay rights were part of a sexual revolutn that was “rooted the soil of elist postmorn philosophy” and “sought public affirmatn of the lie that the human person is an tonomo blob of Silly Putty unnstraed by nature or blogy, and that marriage, sexualy, genr inty and even the unborn child mt yield to the erotic sir of liberated adults.

Tmp’s relatively benign ments before beg elected did nothg to prepare Mter for the ban on openly transgenr people the ary and for his admistratn’s edicts, efforts or clared tentns to elimate protectns for transgenr people the Affordable Care Act, allow health re workers to ce relig beliefs refg to treat gay or transgenr people, let ferally fund hog shelters ny accs to transgenr people, make easier for adoptn agenci to turn away same-sex upl and more.

'OLD TOWN ROAD' RAPPER LIL NAS X APPEARS TO E OUT AS GAY

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for Outsports.At the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He didn’t take them personally, but they ma him unfortable, as did the ia of g out.“I knew the stuff wasn’t directed at me,” Bach said, “but I was thkg, ‘Oh, is this how ’s gog to be for me my entire life?’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me up.Still, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one.ImageKnown as the FredNats, the Class A Natnals play at Virgia Cred Unn Stadium Frericksburg, Va.Cred...Michael A.

That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac.“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people,” he said.His job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them.

THE GAY TTH ABOUT TMP

The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room.ImageIn a small operatn like a Class A team, Bach teracts wh the players que regularly.

Cred...Edward Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted,” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their inti.Major League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the game.Other cints suggt there is more work to be done. The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.G.B.T.Q.-iendly pani.Dermody and Bass were subsequently released by their teams, though their poor performance on the field was most likely a major factor those cisns.“I don’t thk some silly Rob Maned iative is gog to help anythg,” Bach said of the league’s creatg a diversy fellowship.