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Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
- THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
- GAY CLEVELAND THROUGH THE S: THE CLUBS, QUEENS AND MIC THAT BROUGHT GAY CULTURE TO THE MASTREAM
- THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
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Seattle, 2014Mab Mohammed Masmari, 30, poured gasole on the stairs of a gay club and set alight shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve.
GAY CLEVELAND THROUGH THE S: THE CLUBS, QUEENS AND MIC THAT BROUGHT GAY CULTURE TO THE MASTREAM
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More than 700 people were the club at the time, cludg much of the cy’s gay and transgenr learship, but no one was Masmari plead guilty to arson and was sentenced to 10 years prison July 2014.
Stonewall Inn, 2010 and 2016The Stonewall Inn played a central role the morn gay rights movement, but has also seen antigay and anti-transgenr vlence recent men attacked another man the rtroom 2010 after he rmed them that they were a gay bar. “The realy is, if people are lookg to perpetrate anti-gay bias and vlence, there are very few plac this world that are safe once that tent has formed, ” Sharon Stapel, the former executive director of the New York Cy Anti-Vlence Project, said at the time of the March this year, a transgenr woman said she was sexually asslted the unisex rtroom. John Rechy, a noted chronicler of gay LA, wrote his book Cy of Night that this lotn of the Cooper doughnut cha on Ma Street was the se of a 1959 uprisg of transgenr women and street htlers.
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Especially toward the end of his reer, police created problems for him: At a show a Hollywood gay club, he was ma to do his act a tux stead of his gowns due to an anti-cross-drsg law. Pershg Square was the center of "The Run, " a circu of gay-iendly tablishments and cisg spots that served the 1920s through the 1960s as what the book Gay L. A sectn of this state beach is regnized as LA's unofficial gay beach, and has been referred to by the nickname Gger Rogers Beach sce the 1950s.
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LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
His work, showg strong, virile men, was nsired pecially important the 1980s, when the AIDS epimic meant that the prevailg image of gay men was the oppose of mcular and healthy. In a letter of support for the hoe receivg this signatn, the Wt Coast edor of Archectural Digt wrote that Laaksonen's artwork "one of the most important forc the evolutn of gay culture the 20th century. —Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli.