When The Woodward, Detro's olst-nng gay bar, burned a massive fire last week, spurred a nversatn about the history of the bar self and how to remember and celebrate s signifince the gay muny while lookg toward the future.
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- NEW ORLEANS SEARCH FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE THAT KILLED 31
- MAN SETS FIRE TO GAY BAR WH PATRONS STILL SI…
- WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
- GALLERY: WOODWARD COCKTAIL BAR, A LONGTIME GAY SPOT NEW CENTER, BURNS
- THE UPSTAIRS LOUNGE FIRE: THE LARGT MASSACRE OF GAY PEOPLE U.S. HISTORY
- A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
- NEW YORK GAY BARS ARE DECLG—AND COVID ISN’T ALL TO BLAME
NEW ORLEANS SEARCH FOR REMAS OF 4 VICTIMS OF 1973 GAY BAR FIRE THAT KILLED 31
* gay bar burned down 2022 *
Sillen Glenn, who moved to New York om Florida 2015, said the fire had ma them thk of the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., where a gunman wh an asslt rifle and a pistol killed 50 people and wound 53 more 2016.
Photograph: Marie Le Ble/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockThis week, New York Cy’s mayor, Eric Adams, posned the cy as a welg place for queer people ntrast to plac like Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis jt signed a “don’t say gay” law. New York Cy’s most well-known cint is the police raid at Stonewall Inn that sparked the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg – and helped lnch the morn gay rights movement. In regards to possible homophobic motivatns behd the attack, Sillen said: “It’s fely impossible to le that out bee is, you know, fely reads that way.
MAN SETS FIRE TO GAY BAR WH PATRONS STILL SI…
It’s the end of an era. The Woodward Bar & Grill, Detro’s olst gay bar, ught fire yterday morng around 10:30 a.m. and burned down a * gay bar burned down 2022 *
Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people a New Orleans gay bar, the Cy Council has renewed the search for the remas of four victims, cludg three who were never intified. Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people a New Orleans gay bar, the Cy Council has renewed the search Thursday, Aug, 4, 2022, for the remas of four victims, cludg three who were never intified.
Rooted pervasive anti-gay sentiment" ma sufferg worse for victims' fai and iends, stat the motn wrten by Councilmember J. The blaze was the 20th century's largt mass killg of gays, the Cy Council's apology and Thursday's motn noted.
WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
On a Sunday afternoon on June 24, 1973, around sixty patrons were drkg at the Upstairs Lounge, a gay bar New Orleans' French Quarter. At 7:56pm, the buzzer that signaled a b sound. The man that opened the steel door was greeted by a hurlg Molotov cktail that quickly engulfed the stairse and spread… * gay bar burned down 2022 *
LeBlanc was tranged om his fay California — not bee of his homosexualy but bee he hadn't paid money owed to his grandfather, Fieler wrote "Trbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn. The other replied, g a slur for homosexuals, "Let 'em burn.
A myster firebug poured gasole on the floor of a gay-iendly Brooklyn bar and then set alight, g a small explosn that sged two club workers and displaced tenants om apartments above the venue, thori and wns night had barely begun at Rash Bar at 941 Willoughby Ave. It’s the Santis type drip drip drip to monize gays and lbians. R5, fe gays and Anonymoreply 21April 6, 2022 9:24 PM.
GALLERY: WOODWARD COCKTAIL BAR, A LONGTIME GAY SPOT NEW CENTER, BURNS
Saw this on the lol news this morng - no mentn that was a gay bar. Maybe a gay cel?
THE UPSTAIRS LOUNGE FIRE: THE LARGT MASSACRE OF GAY PEOPLE U.S. HISTORY
Sadly one of the domant groups Brooklyn is known for homophobia, antisemism and hatred of Asians. That's what I thought r46, this place didn't even advertise as a gay bar. [quote]Sadly one of the domant groups Brooklyn is known for homophobia, antisemism and hatred of Asians.
I'm not sure "Rash" is an enticg name for a gay Anonymoreply 60April 7, 2022 12:14 AM. People still go to gay bars? They are not "gay-gay" Anonymoreply 64April 7, 2022 12:41 AM.
A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
"We have theori, like maybe 's bee we're a queer space and homophobia or uld be like a disgntled ctomer om the past, " Bender said the vtigatn is ongog, but the cint is not beg vtigated as a hate crime. When The Woodward, Detro's olst-nng gay bar, burned a massive fire last week, spurred a nversatn about the history of the bar self, but also where was suated Detro gay history more broadly — and how to remember and celebrate s signifince the gay muny while lookg toward the future.
NEW YORK GAY BARS ARE DECLG—AND COVID ISN’T ALL TO BLAME
The fire happened the middle of Pri Month, and not jt any Pri Month Detro: This year marks 50 years sce the cy's first Pri march, held June 24, 1972 to mand "full civil rights for gay people" and a repeal of all anti-gay laws, the Free Prs reported back then.
The march, officially lled Christopher Street '72, was self a remembrance of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street New York Cy on June 28, 1969, when protts broke out rponse to a police raid at a gay bar. In s 70-odd years, The Woodward has been part of many tersectg stori of gay life and culture Detro, cludg policg of gay spac, ownership shifts, racial segregatn and populatn trends the cy. The owners said they never set out to open up a gay bar.
"We jt opened up and whichever way went, went, " Andy Karagas told "Gayzette" 1973 (as reported Andy's obuary 1997). "And when went gay all the way, we kicked out all the straights that night. He later me out as the time, owners of gay bars Detro were mostly not gay themselv.