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Contents:

• GAY NIGHTLIFE NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHETTS: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• IN NORTHAMPTON, A GAY BAR THAT GLTERS
• GAY NORTHAMPTON (HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHETTS)
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS NORTHAMPTON, MA
• LGBTQ+ PSYCHIATRISTS NORTHAMPTON, MA

GAY NIGHTLIFE NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHETTS: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

Over the years, gay men and trans people have joed the vast number of lbians this Massachetts town, altogether lendg to an acceptg and clive vibe throughout. Northampton has more than five tim the natnal average number of same-sex hoeholds, yet the town has no gay drkg tablishments (not officially, anyway).

While isn't an LGBTQ+ tablishment, per se, this affordable, zy, and nvivial tavern has been a favore among lol lbians and gays sce opened the mid-'70s. Every uple of months, Bishop's hosts an ostensibly gay party lled Kg, but pretty much any eveng you'll see a number of gay guys and lbians here.

Sylvter's: The odds are high that you'll bump to the same gay and lbian folks om last night's bar-hoppg havg a breakfast burro at Sylvter's, a longtime supporter of the annual Noho Pri celebratn. Spoleto: This cheerful and vg Italian eatery is part of a lol group of trendy, gay-iendly eateri that also clus Pizzeria Paradiso and Mama Iguana's.

IN NORTHAMPTON, A GAY BAR THAT GLTERS

NORTHAMPTON — When Diva’s Nightclub closed 2016 after a 16-year n, the cy was left whout a gay that’s no longer the se. In September, the Majtic Saloon, which opened as a craft beer and we bar last year, beme a “fully popped queer bar, lounge and ocsnal club, ” as the new owners wrote their “big gay announcement” on the bar’s Instagram acunt, Parent, Sarah Whe and Samson Kg now -own Majtic, at 24 Ma St., wh s origal owner, Phil Peake, a psychology profsor at Smh they had a formal stake the bs, Parent and Whe worked at the earlier versn of the bar as bartenrs. “It beme very clear to that there was a mand for queer programmg this town, ” said late May, they started a weekly queer night — which they also lled a pop-up gay bar — and people started to le up.

So far, Peake is pleased wh how the new bs is gog, but he wrote an email, “The verdict is still out on whether there is sufficient muny support to mata a full-time gay bar the highly petive Northampton market. “I thk when we ially lnched as a fully, fully popped-up queer bar, we had a lot of people who were askg , ‘Isn’t every bar Northampton a gay bar? Among other offergs: a lerary club, a New Year’s Eve drag show and screengs of “The L Word: Generatn Q” — a reboot of “The L Word, ” a 2000s Showtime seri about a group of lbians livg and workg Los Kg put , “We’re tryg to be both a muny space — a space where you n land and relax wh iends — or a place you uld go dancg and be around other homos.

Every year, Northampton Borough Council celebrat Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia (17 May), Internatnal Comg Out Day (11 October) and World AIDS Day (1 December) wh public events. Birmgham's Gay Village is centred around Hurst Street, a few mut south of New Street tra statn, and is home to a whole host of vibrant bars, clubs and shops. Nottgham's gay district is centred around Lace Market, the cy's cultural hub, which is to the east of the cy nearby towns and ci all have a siar LGBT scene to Northampton, cludg Bedford's Barley Mow, The Greenhoe and California Inn Luton, Oxford's Plh Lounge and Rabows Pris (2015)JulySat 4 July: Warwickshire Pri (Leamgton Spa)Sun 12 July: Essex PriFri 17 – Mon 20 July: LFt (Staffordshire) Sat 25 July: Norwich PriSat 25 July: Nottghamshire PriAugtSat 1 Augt: Brighton PriSat 1 Augt: Liverpool PriSun 2 Augt: Leeds PriFri 7 – Mon 10 Augt: Fay Pri (Staffordshire) Sat 22 Augt: Hertfordshire Pri (Watford)Fri 28 – Mon 31 Augt: Manchter PriSat 29 Augt: Walsall PriSeptemberSat 5 September: Leicter PriSat 5 September: Readg PriSat 26 September: Wolverhampton Pri.

GAY NORTHAMPTON (HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHETTS)

To stay the loop, sign up to receive email updat here: Our Missn​​To foster events that honor the tegry, history and diversy of our Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer muny and to foc on tn, awarens, and uny among LGBTQ+/allied muni. The first Northampton march had no official name, but was billed as beg held support of the Lbian and Gay Communy and to prott the Fay Protectn Act.

The Fay Protectn Act was proposed feral legislatn that would ban a wi variety of servic to gays as well as people of lor, immigrants and the poor.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS NORTHAMPTON, MA

That first public outg of Lbians and gay men Northampton happened an already hostile lol atmosphere that had been energized by the natnal emergence of the New Right and electn of Ronald Reagan. In early 1980, Lbians and Gay Men Agast Vlence, an ad hoc group, picketed two area cemas for showg the anti-gay film “Cisg, ” which featured a serial killer of gay men.

One of the anizers, David Jolly, told prs that seeg gay people as fair game for such media stereotypg uld lead to a backlash of vlence agast the gay muny. The Daily Hampshire Gazette substuted the word “homosexual” for “gay” their verage wherever they uld while prtg an edorial ngratulatg Northampton on s tolerance of such an historic event.

The facts that the KKK was makg new appearanc Sprgfield and that the Gay Communy News office Boston had recently been torched poted to the need for wi aln buildg.

LGBTQ+ PSYCHIATRISTS NORTHAMPTON, MA

In late December and early January, the Daily Hampshire Gazette prted what some saw as anti-lbian/gay wrg, two piec by natnally syndited lumnist Joseph Sobran. Notg that they “agreed wh the paper” that “gays mt be persecuted, …eradited, …never accepted, ” they intified themselv as SHUN, “Stop Homosexual Uny Now. It promised to “route (sic) out and expel this extremist homosexual germ by peaceful or vlent means, ” cludg burng to the ground Womonfyre bookstore and the New Alexandria Lbian Library.