Chasg 'Phantoms of the Past': 8 Gay and Lbian Bar Archivists on Prervg LGBTQ+ Nightlife History | VePair

Contents:

• 1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
• FRANK GAY'S MARQUEEROCKFORD, ILLOIS 61108
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• GAY FRANKFURT
• CHASG ‘PHANTOMS OF THE PAST’: 8 GAY AND LBIAN BAR ARCHIVISTS ON PRERVG LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE HISTORY

1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE

Type: Gay Bar. In a nutshell: Frank's Place is one of Southeastern CT's hottt gay and lbian bar venu, loted New London. “Its clientele clus sanatn workers, lawyers, stunts, dropouts om virtually anythg, artists, clerks, poets, reporters, straights and ocsnal gays, blacks and wh, adventuro post-teeny boppers om the Northeast and a beloved old man who always wears a blue beret.

1920s and 30s: Gay bars surface.

FRANK GAY'S MARQUEEROCKFORD, ILLOIS 61108

Tavern on Camac is one of the olst gay bars Philalphia, if not the olst. Was a Prohibn-era speakeasy and “gentleman’s club” lled Maxe’s, where lol gay men, soldiers, and sailors would nverge.

A lot of socializg among the cy’s queer rints durg the ’40s and ’50s happened at hoe parti anized by Quaker-affiliated groups, acrdg to thor Marc Ste, who vered the era his book “Cy of Sisterly and Brotherly Lov: Lbian and Gay Philalphia.

1950s: Gayborhood = Rtenhoe Square. Durg the middle of the century Rtenhoe Square was the cy’s gay moment. “Saturday night is the gayt night of the week, ” read a story on the Rtenhoe queer scene Greater Philalphia Magaze.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Unr Mayor Frank Rizzo, the cy put up signage around the Square to disurage gay people om cisg. In 1962, the Jan Society was found Philalphia, makg one of the first rerd and publicly known “homophile” anizatns the cy. Dewey’s, a malted k and ice cream vendg cha, had two stor that remaed on the Philly gaydar.

GAY FRANKFURT

Dewey’s Rtenhoe lotn, on the other hand, would ny service, discrimatg agast “homosexuals, ” “mascule women, ” “feme men” and “persons wearg non-nformist clothg. In 1968, then-Police Commissner Frank Rizzo orred raids on gay bars (and on anybody he emed “unsirable”), leadg many to be verbally and physilly abed by officers.

The first gay pri monstratn Philalphia took place Jun. The neighborhood that would eventually be monikered “the Gayborhood” by Cy Paper’s David Warner flourished immensely.

The first and olst LGBTQ bookstore the Uned Stat, Gvanni’s Room, would open a year after the events at the Gay Pri Celebratn. Enomic growth, betifitn of the area and a cle the crime-rate were propelled by Philalphia’s first LGBT muny center openg 1976 (William Way) and the tablishment of s first publicly-distributed newspaper (Philalphia Gay News), s first gay bs group openg 1977 (Communy Alliance of Philalphia) and s first LGBT health and wellbeg center 1979 (the Mazzoni Center). To discs the creepg rise of “Kaposi’s Sara and Opportunistic Infectns” afflictg gay men, a disease that would later be termed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

CHASG ‘PHANTOMS OF THE PAST’: 8 GAY AND LBIAN BAR ARCHIVISTS ON PRERVG LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE HISTORY

LGBTQ movements, spac, anizatns and efforts the cy, up until then, had maly been domated by and tered to the needs of whe homosexual men. (The Gayborhood mural memoratg Casarez was whewashed by velopers last year.

Over the next few years, cints of racism and discrimatn surfaced at several Gayborhood bars.