Internalized Homophobia? Jt Not Gay Enough? Why This Downtown Detro Queer Club Flamed Out So Quickly - Pri Source

Contents:

• GAY-IENDLY SPORTS BAR OPENS DETRO
• WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
• INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA? JT NOT GAY ENOUGH? WHY THIS DOWNTOWN DETRO QUEER CLUB FLAMED OUT SO QUICKLY
• HUNDREDS REMISCE ABOUT HISTORIL DETRO GAY BAR SCENE

GAY-IENDLY SPORTS BAR OPENS DETRO

From downtown Detro to Royal Oak, Gay-Friendly nightlife reigns supreme. Gay-Friendly Bars & Clubs Metro Detro.

As one of the olst gay spac Detro, this spot is te to s gay roots but is always open to anyone who wants to jo the fun. Loted the former gay mec of Detro, Palmer Park, the plex clus the Menjo’s Bar, the Eagle Leather Bar, and the Olymp Theater.

It’s fely the place for a night of gay-oriented entertament — the bt kd!

WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS

Gigi's Gay Bar. One of the bt gay and drag bars the cy, Gigi’s is optimal for drks and a show. 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.

Loted at Jefferson and Bebien where Tom’s Oyster Bar ed to be, Briggs Detro is the first gay-owned bar downtown Detro sce the early 1990s, say owners Tim Moored and Roc Tossone. Gay bars/clubs?

INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA? JT NOT GAY ENOUGH? WHY THIS DOWNTOWN DETRO QUEER CLUB FLAMED OUT SO QUICKLY

Briggs claims to be the first gay-owned sports bar to open the downtown area sce the '90s. The history of the LGBT muny metro Detro spans the cy’s past, but took new shape right after World War II when gay clubs began openg mostly downtown.

This gay-owned Spanish tapas rtrant featur a lp of tradnal tapas, which are meant to be eaten small portns while sippg on the spot’s hoe-ma sangria or a craft cktail. This relative newer to the cy’s nightlife scene isn’t explicly a gay bar, but ’s fely LGBTQ-clive, om s management to the event programmg on hand. 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.

HUNDREDS REMISCE ABOUT HISTORIL DETRO GAY BAR SCENE

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. Gay sex was a crime Michigan — as had been sce the 1800s — and police equently harassed and arrted gay people and raid gay bars.

"It was technilly illegal to operate a bar that was a renzvo for homosexuals, " said Tim Retzloff, adjunct assistant profsor of history and LGBTQ studi at Michigan State Universy. Bars at the time, gay and otherwise, sometim paid off police to be left alone.