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- NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO
- NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO
- BEFORE IT BURNED DOWN, THIS BATHHOE SERVED AS A HAVEN FOR NEW YORK CY’S GAY COMMUNY
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- GAY NEW YORK CY
- ‘RIGHTEO ANGER WAS A PART OF ’: THE SHOCKG STORY OF NEW YORK’S GAY BAR KILLER
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Fieler Trbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn, his 2018 book about the 1973 fire at a New Orleans gay bar that killed 32. The Everard didn’t start out as a gay tablishment. As public bathg fell out of fashn the early 20th century, the Everard started attractg a new dience: gay men, who equented the bathhoe as early as World War I.
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By the 1930s, the Everard had bee a sanctuary for gay New Yorkers—one that earned the venue the moniker “Ever-hard.
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When the gay liberatn movement rose om the broken bottl of the Stonewall Uprisg, a new generatn of gay men—experiencg a measure of sexual eedom for the first time morn history—created a market for more bathho. In the 1970s, before the bleak years of the AIDS crisis reamed attus about gay timacy, the ubiquy of sex was, for many men, a pivotal part of beg gay.
Reflectg on the era a 1994 piece for Out magaze, wrer Brooks Peters observed that “the baths [were gay men’s] Bastille, a hard-won symbol of aterny, equaly and liberty. The right to be a homosexual man whout harassment om society was closely lked to the right to have promiscuo sex.
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“It certaly was important at the time to have a place where gay men [uld] go and cise and have sex wh each other—but also meet each other, ” says Eric Newman, a Los Angel-based scholar and cric who has lectured LGBTQ studi at the Universy of California, Los Angel.
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Wh the gay muny, the repellant ndns were legendary. Bce Voeller, -founr of the Natnal Gay Task Force, lled the Everard a “shabby, dreadful place—n-down and gbby beyond words. ” In 1972, a reviewer for the newspaper Gay scribed the buildg as a “moldy doma” and a “Transylvanian crypt.