When The Woodward, Detro's olst-nng gay bar, burned a massive fire last week, spurred a nversatn about the history of the bar self and how to remember and celebrate s signifince the gay muny while lookg toward the future.
Contents:
- THE HISTORY OF HOW GAY BARS BEME THE BATTLEGROUND FOR LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
- HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
- WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
THE HISTORY OF HOW GAY BARS BEME THE BATTLEGROUND FOR LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
In honor of Pri Month, take a ep dive to 200+ years of gay bar history and how they paved the way for the LGBTQ rights movement. * when did gay bars start *
Today, people tend to equate gay bars as beg plac to party pecially hard.
They’re fun spots if you’re gay, straight, or anywhere between.
‘Wild night out’ stori often clu or end at the neighborhood gay bar. It’s hard to overstate the importance of the gay bar wh the LGBTQ+ rights movement over the past uple hundred years.
HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
In honor of Pri Month, we wanted to highlight the historil signifince of gay bars and their impact on equaly for all. Bee of the need for tense secrecy, the very earlit history of the gay bar has been mostly lost.
WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
However, 1810, we get our first rerd stance of a gay bar—unr admtedly unfortunate circumstanc. Although is nice to thk of gay bars as unanimoly safe plac, where the LGBTQ+ muny uld exist whout threat, that clearly wasn’t always the se.