THE BEST Sat Julian's Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

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• THE BEST SAT JULIAN'S GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SAT JULIAN'S
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
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On April 21, 1966, a “Sip-In” was anized by members of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s earlit gay rights anizatns, to challenge the State Liquor Authory’s discrimatory policy of revokg the licens of bars that served known or spected gay men and lbians.

The publicized event – at which they were refed service after tentnally revealg they were “homosexuals” – was one of the earlit pre-Stonewall public actns for LGBT rights as well as a big step forward the eventual velopment of legimate LGBT bars New York Cy. By the 1960s, Juli’ began attractg gay men, although was not exclively a gay bar. On April 21, 1966, members of the Mattache Society, an early gay rights group, anized what beme known as the “Sip-In.

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” Their tent was to challenge New York State Liquor Authory (SLA) regulatns that were promulgated so that bars uld not serve drks to known or spected gay men or lbians, sce their prence was nsired facto disorrly.

The SLA regulatns were one of the primary ernmental mechanisms of opprsn agast the gay muny bee they preclud the right to ee assembly.

This was particularly important bee bars were one of the few plac where gay people uld meet each other.

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The Sip-In was part of a larger mpaign by more radil members of the Mattache Society to clarify laws and l that hibed the nng of gay bars as legimate, non-mob tablishments and to stop the harassment of gay bar patrons. Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and John Timmons, acpanied by several reporters, went to a number of bars, announced that they were “homosexuals, ” and asked to be served a drk.

…when we walked , the bartenr put glass ont of , and we told him that we were gay and we tend to rema orrly, we jt wanted service. And he said, hey, you’re gay, I n’t serve you, and he put his hands over the top of the glass, which ma wonrful photographs. The reactn by the State Liquor Authory and the newly empowered New York Cy Commissn on Human Rights rulted a change policy and the birth of a more open gay bar culture.

Scholars of gay history nsir the Sip-In at Juli’ a key event leadg to the growth of legimate gay bars and the velopment of the bar as the central social space for urban gay men and lbians. New York’s olst Gay bar and Greenwich Village’s olst bar.