Gigi’s, one of the most beloved and rpected gay bars on the Michigan map, is celebratg a tone few venu manage to reach — 50 years the
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- GIGI’S CELEBRAT 50 YEARS: THE OLST GAY-OWNED GAY BAR DETRO IS NOW A HALF-CENTURY OLD
- DETRO DRAG, ENTERTAMENT STAPLE GIGI’S GAY BAR GETS NEW OWNERSHIP, NEW LOOK
- WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
GIGI’S CELEBRAT 50 YEARS: THE OLST GAY-OWNED GAY BAR DETRO IS NOW A HALF-CENTURY OLD
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DETRO DRAG, ENTERTAMENT STAPLE GIGI’S GAY BAR GETS NEW OWNERSHIP, NEW LOOK
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Ferndale has been the center of gay life Detro sce the 2000s and Soho is the classy yet sual spot for gay men, women and everyone between right the heart of the downtown area off Wt Ne Mile Road. Whether you’re gay, straight, bi, trans, or queer, the are great tablishments to make a night of and teract wh a diverse muny. Gigi’s, one of the most beloved and rpected gay bars on the Michigan map, is celebratg a tone few venu manage to reach — 50 years the bs.
As was Rosalyn Delight, whose signature number was a Crystal Gayle parody lled “Donuts Make My Brown Ey Blue, ” durg which she actually threw donuts – day olds, I’m told, to the dience. The bar’s gay roots date back to the very early 1970s.
In 1973, 35-year-old Tony Garne, a former grocer, acquired the bar and turned all the way gay. The Woodward Bar & Grill Midtown held the distctn of beg Detro’s olst gay bar until s untimely mise by a three-alarm fire last year.
WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
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That mak Gigi’s the olst gay-owned gay bar still operatn Detro. Some nearby straight neighbors weren’t too happy to have a homo bar on the block. Chi relled Garne as a “very genero man who red about gay kids and wanted them to have a place where they belonged.
Like many LGBTQ Detroers, hbands Luis and Joshua Mandujano met at Gigi’s Gay Bar, the bo bar and baret that has been a hotspot for gay nightlife the cy for nearly 50 years. 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.
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.