New Jersey’s attorney general apologized for s-old state polici that shuttered bars for allowg gay patrons to ngregate.
Contents:
- GAY BARS AND GAY RIGHTS
- LIQUOR LAWS ONCE TARGETED GAY BARS. NOW, ONE STATE IS APOLOGIZG.
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
GAY BARS AND GAY RIGHTS
Gay bars, one of the few public plac of ngregatn for LGBTQ+ people before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, were flash pots for the crimalizatn of same-sex sexual nduct, acrdg to legal scholar Patricia A. Ca’s history of ligatn for lbian and gay rights.
Addnally, a broad terpretatn of “homosexual acts” the twentieth century ma “lbians and gay men thk of themselv as crimals jt for beg who they were, ” wr Ca. In what Ca lls the first “succsful Amerin ‘gay rights’ se, ” 1951, the California Supreme Court led Stoumen v. The state liquor thory had “acted arbrarily termg that the mere prence of homosexuals a public bar was a threat to public welfare and morals.
LIQUOR LAWS ONCE TARGETED GAY BARS. NOW, ONE STATE IS APOLOGIZG.
” The urt nclud that the state uldn’t nflate homosexual stat and homosexual nduct. ” Dpe Stoumen, the laws would be ed to harass and close gay bars until the laws were clared unnstutnal, 1959.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
Department of Alhol Beverage Control required “somethg more” than the mere prence of homosexuals a California bar for thori to revoke a liquor license. ” Such ambiguo wordg kept the door open to closg gay bars, even if g liquor licensg to do so beme ls and ls viable.