This Pri month, we’ll take you to important lotns L.G.B.T.Q. history and tell you the stori about the gay New Yorkers, ins and activists who lived and worked there. Along the way we’ll let you know about some upg events and a few sir tips.
Contents:
- GAY NEW YORK : GENR, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKGS OF THE GAY MALE WORLD, 1890-1940
- A WALKG TOUR OF 11 LANDMARKS GAY NEW YORK
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- GAY NEW YORK: 1930–1970
GAY NEW YORK : GENR, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKGS OF THE GAY MALE WORLD, 1890-1940
The gay scene of New York Cy was promently thst to the public eye 1969, after rts at a Greenwich Village bar. But existed long before that. * gay new york history *
New York Cy’s gay scene was thst promently to the public eye 1969 after rts at a Greenwich Village bar.
A WALKG TOUR OF 11 LANDMARKS GAY NEW YORK
The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement. * gay new york history *
New York Cy – and Greenwich Village, particular – are associated worldwi wh gay rights and gay history bee of the Stonewall uprisg of June 1969 and the newly visible gay world that flowered the Village as a rult of . role world gay history the late 1960s, 70s and.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
The gay bar’s 1969 patron-police battle, hailed as a startg pot, actually followed many events the cy, now mapped a s project. * gay new york history *
an important gay centre long before. By the 1850s, people that we would today ll gay began to play an important role New York – at least the cultural life that was beg a signifint feature of the cy.
GAY NEW YORK: 1930–1970
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Gay or gay-iendly social groups were startg up too. Whman read his most clearly homoerotic works, the ‘Calam’ poems, aloud to the circle of his iends who gathered at Pfaff’s beer cellar, at Broadway and Bleecker Street, which suggts that they were at least what today we ll ‘alli’.
Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily. * gay new york history *
There is ls evince of gay life New York the s after the 1850s, perhaps bee the Civil War retard the velopment of alternative liftyl the US.
By the 1890s, however, New York already had what we’d ll gay bars or, more precisely, drag bars.