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Contents:
- HOW A FIRST-TIME FILMMAKER SPENT YEARS REARCHG GAY SEX WORKERS FOR HIS STARTLG DEBUT
- A DAY THE LIFE OF A GAY TORONTO STREET KID
- THEN&NOW: THAT GAY STREET!
- MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
HOW A FIRST-TIME FILMMAKER SPENT YEARS REARCHG GAY SEX WORKERS FOR HIS STARTLG DEBUT
Cale Vidal-Naquet spent years terviewg sex workers for his wrenchg gay drama, which premiered at Cann and opens this week. * gay street interview *
Over the urse of the early 20th century, was a safe haven for New York's LGBTQ muny and home to events—cludg the Stonewall Inn protts—that would bee flash pots for the mastreamg of the gay rights movement all across the remas to this day an important symbol of LGBTQ life New York (photographs of the sign at s tersectn wh Gay Street are tourist souvenir shop stapl), even though 's now more populated wh luxury shops and extravagant gyms than the nightlife hotspots that was once famo for.
A DAY THE LIFE OF A GAY TORONTO STREET KID
* gay street interview *
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Pretty soon, the Fay will have ntrol over majory of the gay nightlife the Village, a monopoly that will ntue ep to the 1960s.
A need for as many drafts as possible after Pearl Harbor meant that when gay people enlisted the army, they weren't turned away.
THEN&NOW: THAT GAY STREET!
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP In the 17th Century Wouter van Twiller operated a brewery here before this ty street was laid out the early 19th Century. The first documented mentn of Gay Street appeared the Common Council mut of April 23, 1827. Gay Street was wined 1833. 1820s perd ho * gay street interview *
Durg this time, the FBI matas a list of gay Amerins, who will subsequently be targeted by police for an array of illegal activi, cludg habatn and kissg the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, many queer people of lor had been leadg a (relatively) open life the north Manhattan neighborhood—as celebrated gay artist Bce Nugent put : "Nobody was the closet.
MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
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