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Contents:

• WHO OWNS GAY STREET?
• WHAT’S A NAME? GAY STREET
• TORONTO PREACHER KNOWN FOR NONTATNS GAY VILLAGE PLANNG WT COAST TOUR
• HABATS/14 GAY STREET; ACT I, SCENE 1: A BASEMENT THE VILLAGE
• GAYS SHUT OUT OF DAVIE PLAN
• DAVID GAY
• THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
• GAY MUNICH
• GAILY TOUR MUNICH - GAY & LBIAN TOUR

WHO OWNS GAY STREET?

It is lled Gay Street bee the Village had always been a “gay” place the rdials-and-parlor-gam sense of the the time beg — and perhaps forever — Gay Street is now lled by many nam. They appeared a rabow of lors and read ( scendg orr): Lbian Street, Bisexual Street, Trans Street, Queer Street, Intersex Street, Asexual Street, Nonbary Street, Pansexual Street, Two Spir Street and + Street, wh the pl sign signatg any group that might feel ntrast to so much of Greenwich Village, which n feel like a satelle mp of Hedge Fund Universy, Gay Street still retas the character of an old, bohemian left. He wished to “vigoroly oppose” permanent stat, he wrote, “bee the effect of this verbal extravagance is to trivialize the very signifint history of Gay Street.

Even though there is only a small logo at the bottom of the stallatn, word of the leage has gotten around and triggered an uneass a part of the world already fatigued by rporate terference gay life. It is bee of the associatns that people who have lived on the block liked to thk about the street relatn to Sydney Howard Gay, the edor of The Natnal Anti-Slavery Standard and a key operative the Unrground Railroad, which some believe might have clud stops on the block. Alternatively, they might have no ia who Sydney Howard Gay actually was and be thkg only about how much they n fortably put on their Masterrd around the rner at Leffot, the home of the $775 Dearborn ankle boot.

WHAT’S A NAME? GAY STREET

In this se, might serve the greater good to move past street signs and mount a plaque outlg the street’s seems clear that Gay Street was named for a man named Gay — someone, acrdg to property rerds, livg on the Bowery the late 1700s, someone whose distctns have been lost to the Street is also jt around the rner om the Stonewall Inn, a landmark to the movement for L. Her iend Margaret Kunstler, who no longer liv on Gay Street but still owns the hoe that she shared wh her hband there, would simply prefer to see the Gay Street sign reprted as a rabow. Christopher Park is near Sheridan Square, but was not formerly known as Sheridan we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn MB, Page 3 of the New York edn wh the headle: Who Gets to Lay Claim to Gay Street?.

1641990183"Heartbroken that David Stuart om 56 Dean street has died, " wrote Matthew Todd, who is the thor of the book Straight Jacket: Overg Society's Legacy of Gay Shame and a former edor of Brish LGBTQ+ magaze Attu. Gay Street is one of the most charmg and picturque streets Greenwich Village, an in of the historic neighborhood’s anachronistic character. And while the street certaly has strong nnectns to gay liberatn and the Ain-Amerin stggle for eedom, the history behd the name is a ltle murkier, and a ltle more plited to unravel, than one might expect.

TORONTO PREACHER KNOWN FOR NONTATNS GAY VILLAGE PLANNG WT COAST TOUR

In the later 19th century, when the Village was the center of New York’s Ain-Amerin muny, many of the rints of Gay Street were black, and many of them were also micians.

HABATS/14 GAY STREET; ACT I, SCENE 1: A BASEMENT THE VILLAGE

Historic Bromley map of Manhattan showg Gay Street lower right (urty of David Jarrett — historic maps available on Village Prervatn’s webse; see “Maps” unr Rourc). But long before Ruth McKenna ma Gay Street famo, the street and s Greenwich Village surroundgs had already e to be associated wh the word “gay.

However, by the late 19th and pecially the early 20th century, the nnotatns of the word gay me to be creasgly associated wh a liftyle unfettered by the nventns of the day. It was not until the mid-20th century that e of the term “gay” me to more monly mean specifilly those attracted to the same sex, and was not until the late 20th century that this fn me to eclipse other and associatns. Of urse, durg this same time perd, Greenwich Village also evolved om beg one of the premier lol for those who were “gay”– as unfettered by ntemporary nventns — to, more specifilly, a mec for those who were “gay” — as attracted to the same sex.

GAYS SHUT OUT OF DAVIE PLAN

Acrdg to “The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan’s Street Nam and Their Origs” by Henry Mosw, the name Gay Street first appears officially the New York Cy Common Council mut on April 23, 1827 — when Greenwich Village was first beg settled as a suburb of New York by merchants fleeg the yellow fever epimics downtown. Acrdg to Mosw, newspapers om the late 18th century do show at least one man wh the surname Gay who lived not far away on the Bowery, who may have been the street’s namake.

So spe of the street’s rich nnectns to LGBT and Ain-Amerin history, “Gay Street’s” associatns wh those groups may be nothg more than a cince. Gay’s prospective boss lled him as he was drivg to his first day of work and told him not to bother showg up as he had seen Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey’s “Wheel of Fugive” vios, the lawsu said.

DAVID GAY

Gay was volved the urt system for an undisclosed offense and was sentenced November 2020 to three years of probatn for a whhold of adjuditn, a special sentence which a fendant is not formally nvicted of an offense, the lawsu said. Gay was taken to ctody for vlatn of probatn January 2021 after he had been arrted several weeks earlier on a mismeanor domtic battery charge. However, while Gay was jail for the vlatn of probatn arrt, Ivey said a “Wheel of Fugive” vio that Gay was a fugive, when realy he was already the Brevard County Jail, acrdg to the lawsu.

Gay was featured three more episos of “Wheel of Fugive, ” cludg on the day after he was sentenced to probatn unr the same terms that prevly had been imposed and was released om ctody, the lawsu said. A Toronto street preacher wh a history of nontg rints of that cy's gay village is makg his way to the Wt Coast, jt one week after a siar altertn Vanuver led to two arrts. The tactics Lynn and his group employ are siar to those ed by street preachers Vanuver's Davie Street gay village, which have led to siar enunters wh rints.

Love was also at the centre of a siar nflict back June, and rints of the Wt End say he and other street preachers are often seen makg anti-gay remarks through loudspeakers the neighbourhood. '' From the first week he moved to the basement apartment at 14 Gay Street 30-odd years ago, those were the words that woke David Ryan many Saturday words, followed by the sgg: ''Why, oh why, oh why-oh -- Why did I ever leave Oh? In this nt of a room, led wh velvet and damask and chtz, stray bs of statuary, Wedgwood and nlabras, squeeze bottl of lighter fluid and an Ingr prt an imprsive gild ame, they spoke of their love for the buildg and s six sisters along Gay and Christopher Streets, all built the early part of the 19th century and all owned by Ms.

THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA

When he returned, tentacl om the ancient Gay and Christopher Street wisteria had e up through the sandy soil and broken through his floor. ''I hadn't que realized that I was livg a cellar, '' he he turned his attentn to the real garn, a patch of green amed by the ho that le the triangle ma by Waverly Place, Gay Street and Christopher Street.

GAY MUNICH

14, 16, 17 and 18 Gay Street (where, another lerary asi, Mary McCarthy lived 1936) as well as 16, 18 and 20 Christopher Street -- were all built before Gay Street was officially opened 1833. A slim arc nnectg Christopher Street to Waverly Place, Gay Street is the least lear of avenu, s very shape a gture of fiance agast the norm.

''A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn 11, Page 1 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Habats/14 Gay Street; Act I, Scene 1: A Basement the Village. Granted, the cy drafted s Wt End plans more than 15 years ago, but the gay muny was already livg , and intifyg wh, the Davie Village by the late 1980s. A rintial tower would “absolutely nflict” wh the Davie BIA’s plan to turn the Village to a vibrant, 24-hour entertament centre terg to both the lol gay muny and gay and lbian tourists om around the world, he explas.

The cy has to s down wh the muny and build a new plan for the Wt End-one that reflects what the gay muny wants s neighbourhood to look like. The gay muny is an “important part” of the Wt End, Gordon acknowledg, and has s own needs regardg the directn velopment tak the Village.

GAILY TOUR MUNICH - GAY & LBIAN TOUR

It wasn’t until the 1970s that Davie Street’s gay village beme visible, but the history of queer muni ncentratg the Wt End go back to at least the 1940s, says Ron Dutton, archivist and founr of the B.

The new generatn of Wt End dwellers clud a high percentage of young gay men who me om across Canada, attracted to the Wt End’s lotn, affordabily and the anonymy of high-nsy livg. “And yet, wh that, gay people found safe spac below the radar – whether was an illegal boozen or a hoe party – plac where they uld be themselv wh one another before beme visible.

Several stutns emerged that helped make the Davie Street Village a symbol of gay liberatn – the Gay Prs, a Gay muny centre and Ltle Sister’s Book and Art Emporium. A vibrant and openly gay nightlife flourished, cludg the open-all-night Frgo Inn, the Gandydancer, the Shaggy Horse, Numbers and the Retal Circ (which beme Celebri). Today, Davie Village is no longer the only fortable space for the cy’s LGTBQ2+ muny; many have moved on to other parts of the Lower Maland, leadg some observers to predict that the “gaybourhood” will soon be a thg of the past.