The natn’s first gay and lbian talk rad show, The Gay 90s, aired om downtown Cleveland, Oh and started off wh a bang. Not lerally, but given the bomb threat lled before the show’s premier broadst on WHK 1420 AM was a possibily. Dpe the potential danger, The Gay 90s aired as schled on March 26, 1993, and beme the untry’s first mercial live, “ll ” rad program by, for, and about the gay and lbian muny. Given Cleveland’s history of settlg...
Contents:
- STRIP-CLUBS OWNER HAFIZ ADDS GAY 90S TO HIS LIST
- NEW OWNERSHIP MEANS CHANG FOR GAY 90S NIGHTCLUB
- THE GAY 90S
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- GAY 90’S: MNEAPOLIS’ MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY BAR
STRIP-CLUBS OWNER HAFIZ ADDS GAY 90S TO HIS LIST
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Acrdg to s new owner, the Gay 90s will stay gay. On Friday, Peter Hafiz, owner of the strip clubs Deja Vu and Dreamgirls, said he is buyg the Gay 90s and s buildg at the rner of Hennep Avenue and 4th Street He'll take over May 1 pendg cy approval later this month.
While the Gay 90s has borne s name for more than half a century, wasn't until the mid-1970s that beme a gay bar and eventually a statn for drag shows and dance nights, which over the years have also attracted a large straight clientele. A longtime manager at the club, Robert Parker, said he was uncerta about the Gay 90s' future when he first heard about s sale. "But once all started to fall to place, I saw that [Hafiz's] visn was to have a bigger and granr Gay 90s.
After hearg that the Gay 90s' longtime owner, Michael Bloom, was ready to retire, Hafiz stepped , feelg that the club would be a good addn to his clter of downtown nightspots. "We're gog to do an extensive remolg and brg up to date as an upsle venue for the gay muny, " he said. The staple Tw Ci GLBT statn will unrgo renovatns begng renovatns and a change ownership are the works for the Gay 90s nightclub – a staple the Tw Ci gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny and popular statn for Universy stunts – bee an unintified buyer recently entered the fal stag of purchasg the club.
NEW OWNERSHIP MEANS CHANG FOR GAY 90S NIGHTCLUB
Robert Parker, general manager of the Gay 90s, said the buyer approached the owner of the bar, Michael Bloom, about three months ago wh an tert to acquire the club.
Sara Tulchsky celebrated her 21st birthday Sunday at the Gay 90s. “It don’t matter if you’re straight, you’re gay, you’re anythg. The Gay 90s has unrgone a number of chang unr the current owner Bloom, Parker said.
Portrayed wh subtlety and grace by now-retired gay actor Jaye Davidson, Dil was a tragic figure but not a il one, a revolutnary ia 1992. No, they don't have a clue that he's gay. The fact that Lee is straight don't terfere wh his handlg of the subject matter, and he would go on to show his directorial expertise films as varied as <em>Sense and Sensibily, Life of Pi, The Ice Storm, </em> and of urse, one of the bt gay-themed movi ever, <em>Brokeback Mounta.
THE GAY 90S
I don't rell exactly, but I'm pretty sure that after the movie we went for drks at the Flame, a fun and iendly dive that was then Ann Arbor's only gay bar. It was the first I'd learned of Hollywood's rtrictive Hays Co, censorship that ma nearly impossible to pict overt homosexualy on screen.
The film is about a gay baret owner and his drag queen pann -- and 's not a tragedy, which is unual when put up agast many of s queer cema precsors.
The film by Mike Nichols (<em>The Graduate, Workg Girl, Who's Aaid of Virgia Woolf</em>) proved to be a turng pot for society's evolvg views on homosexualy.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
But did so much more for the perceptns of gay men and the ia of LGBT people raisg children. My gay was seepg out. I didn't see the full film until many years later, but seeg the character of Cleo beg gay before I even knew what that word meant was all took.
The natn’s first gay and lbian talk rad show, The Gay 90s, aired om downtown Cleveland, Oh and started off wh a bang. Dpe the potential danger, The Gay 90s aired as schled on March 26, 1993, and beme the untry’s first mercial live, “ll ” rad program by, for, and about the gay and lbian muny. Given Cleveland’s history of settlg disput wh explosiv, upled wh the homophobic atmosphere surroundg lbians and gay men at the time, the threat was taken serly.
GAY 90’S: MNEAPOLIS’ MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY BAR
Thankfully, no bomb explod at Tower Cy that night or any of the followg nights durg The Gay 90s six-year n. It was, stead, the rad show self that blew down barriers, shattered myths and uned Cleveland’s gay, straight and “ between” muni a remarkably peaceful way.
Lookg back, ’s not surprisg that the natn’s first gay and lbian talk show was hosted by Cleveland native Buck Harris, a man at ease beg the “first” a number of public rol. In 1984, Governor Richard Celte appoted Harris as the Oh Department of Health’s gay health nsultant, the first state the natn to create such a posn rponse to the growg AIDS crisis. Shortly after his appotment, The Pla Dealer asked Harris for an terview regardg the crisis, sistg on referrg to him as a “homosexual” (as opposed to gay) nsultant, as was the newspaper’s policy at the time.