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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. 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.

FRANK GAY'S MARQUEEROCKFORD, ILLOIS 61108

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.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

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.

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.

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

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.