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Contents:

• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BROKEN HILL
• FROM STAGE ACH STOP TO GAY BAR: A HISTORY OF THE ME HILL TAVERN
• A LOVELY PLACE TO STAY, GAY & LBIAN IENDLY - REVIEW OF DE OF CORNWALL INN
• RANCH HILL SALOON, MONTGOMERY COUNTY GAY BAR, CLOS AFTER TWO S
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BROKEN HILL
• BROKEN HILL HOSTS GURAL GAY AND LBIAN POLICE NFERENCE
• AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE
• GAY SAN DIEGO

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BROKEN HILL

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FROM STAGE ACH STOP TO GAY BAR: A HISTORY OF THE ME HILL TAVERN

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A LOVELY PLACE TO STAY, GAY & LBIAN IENDLY - REVIEW OF DE OF CORNWALL INN

At the same time the Gay Rights Movement was reachg a turng pot across the Hudson River, a small bar Morris County quietly was beg the social nex for generatns of Northern New Jerseyans who otherwise would have few plac to meet eely.

The Me Hill Tavern began terg to Northern New Jersey’s gay and lbian populatn. Many longtime ctomers scribed the transn as takg place gradually, wh mixed crowds slowly changg to predomantly gay ctomers as the eveng progrsed. In Matt Connor’s 2003 book, Waterg Hole: The Colorful History of Booze, Sex, and Death at a New Jersey Tavern, Maddie’s nephew Carl Gladish reunts: “There was a wonrful mixture of straight and gay people, wonrful Me Hill people, Randolph people, people om Mount Fern.

At first the gay clients “kept a lower profile when mers, hunters, and employe of Hercul and Pitny were the bar, ” but slowly transned to a much more open tablishment.

RANCH HILL SALOON, MONTGOMERY COUNTY GAY BAR, CLOS AFTER TWO S

Wh a ral populatn of only 3, 500, Me Hill was an unlikely lotn for Morris County’s first gay bar, pecially at a time when such tablishments were centered around large ci like New Bnswick, Newark, Asbury Park, and Trenton. Dcribed as lorful and posssg an oversized personaly, Maddie equently weled the Gay Activist Alliance of Morris County (GAAMC) to the Tavern, where many of the group’s young members spent hours playg pball and listeng to the jebox’s eclectic mix of popular mic, rangg om Patsy Cle to dis. Connor not that Maddie never publicly addrsed beg gay herself, spe livg wh her longtime partner, Mre, the tavern’s third floor apartment, and her regular ctomers’ faiary wh the uple’s outrageo explos together.

Durg this perd, the Gay Activist Alliance of Morris County was particularly active, beg the largt anizatn of s kd the state. Through all, the Me Hill Tavern ntued as a hub of the gay and lbian muny, and Maddie and Mre did what they uld for their ctomers, keepg the bs open on holidays to serve dner to those rejected by their fai.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BROKEN HILL

For 140 years the unassumg three-story stcture served as a sanctuary for weary travelers, a waterg hole for area workers, and one of the few social outlets for three s of gay and lbian rints.

The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, began the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted Greenwich Village New York Cy. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and around the world. Constant Raids at Gay BarsThe 1960s and precedg s were not welg tim for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins.

For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry. However, the New York State Liquor Authory penalized and shut down tablishments that served alhol to known or spected LGBT dividuals, argug that the mere gatherg of homosexuals was “disorrly. But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U.

BROKEN HILL HOSTS GURAL GAY AND LBIAN POLICE NFERENCE

Gay rights anizatn, The Society for Human Rights (SHR), was found 1924 by Henry Gerber, a German immigrant.

AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE

Police raids forced them to disband 1925, but not before they had published several issu of their newsletter, “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did.

When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars. In 1966, they purchased Stonewall Inn (a “straight” bar and rtrant), cheaply renovated , and reopened the next year as a gay bar. It weled drag queens, who received a bter receptn at other gay bars and clubs.

GAY SAN DIEGO

It was a nightly home for many naways and homels gay youths, who panhandled or shoplifted to afford the entry fee.

And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi. Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para.

The para’s official chant was: “Say loud, gay is proud. ”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny.