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Charlie’s is a slice of Phoenix gay bar history that has huddled along Camelback Road jt wt of Seventh Avenue sce s but 1984. In those days, the “lil bty ol’ pissant untry place” and dance hall opened by...

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On June 28, 1969, officers and tectiv om the New York Police Department raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village.

The turmoil me after years of police harassment of LGBTQ bars and an anti-gay legal system rife wh homophobia. In the early- to mid-’60s, you uld pretty much unt the total number of lol gay and lbian spots on one hand.

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Long before there was Phoenix Pri, a Melrose district, or anyone g the phrase “gayborhood, ” the Valley’s LGBTQ bar landspe was virtually nonexistent. Marshall Shore, “Arizona’s Hip Historian” and project manager for the Arizona LGBT+ History Project: Pre-Stonewall, Phoenix was very different for gays and lbians.

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It was one of those bsmen lunch plac, but then, at night, beme a gay bar. There was also Capta’s Table, which was a gay bar on Seventh Street [and Missouri Avenue], but that would’ve been like the hterlands of Phoenix at that pot.

Charlie’s is a slice of Phoenix gay bar history that has huddled along Camelback Road jt wt of Seventh Avenue sce s but 1984. In those days, the “lil bty ol’ pissant untry place” and dance hall opened by John Kg (-founr of the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn) was aimed at gay urban wboys and untry mic fans. As tim and terts changed (and petn creased) so did Charlie’s. Today, the place boasts a larger dance floor, an even bigger parkg lot, a ta tck out ont, an outdoor pat wh two bars and bleacher seatg the back, and a wi cross-sectn of the entire LGBT muny. Charlie’s events lendar is jt as diverse. Drag performanc, bgo gam, Lat and untry dance nights, and karaoke are some of s most popular activi. It's also famo for s after-hours weekend dance parti. * phoenix gay bar history *

It was a good place to meet people, a neighborhood bar that people knew was a gay bar. Moody: Capta’s Table was like a much smaller crowd, and, basilly, the neighborhood had a lot of gay people at that time. Larry Van r Beek La Noue: What was like beg a gay man the ’60s?

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