Honorg Disabily Pri Month - Philalphia Gay News

Contents:

• PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• 126 GAY ST, PHILALPHIA, PA 19127HOE FOR RENT $1,950/MO3 BD2.5 BA1,568 SQFT126 GAY ST, PHILALPHIA, PA 19127
• PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
• TOP GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®
• PHILALPHIA GAY SNAS
• 1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
• GUI TO PHILALPHIA'S GAYBORHOOD

PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS

Historic s, popular neighborhoods, and LGBTQ+-owned bars and rtrants Philalphia's Gayborhood and beyond... The Cy of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affectn hosted the untry’s first major monstratn for gay rights, the Annual Remrs, 1965.

And today, Philly visors n easily explore s where LGBTQ+ history was ma and where queer life ntu to thrive, pecially the cy’s Gayborhood and durg annual events like Philly Pri 365. The Gayborhood.

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The center of Philalphia’s gay rintial life and culture sce World War II, the blocks between 11th and Broad streets and Pe and Chtnut streets earned their nickname — the “Gayborhood”— durg an October Outft event 1995. You have your choice of fabulo entertament and diversns as the bars and nightclubs of the Gayborhood e alive each night.

Shoppg the Gayborhood. Sce 2015, the brilliant rabow crosswalks at the tersectn of 13th and Loct Streets have served as an sential Gayborhood landmark. Take a guid tour through the Gayborhood and learn more about the cy’s queer history wh help om Beyond the Bell Tour.

126 GAY ST, PHILALPHIA, PA 19127HOE FOR RENT $1,950/MO3 BD2.5 BA1,568 SQFT126 GAY ST, PHILALPHIA, PA 19127

The group’s LGBTQ and Trans History tours reunt the stori of Gay Liberatn Front – Philalphia founr Kiyoshi Kuromiya, explore morn history and current social issu the neighborhood, and stop at important muny s like the Attic Youth Center, which supports LGBTQ+ youth experiencg homelsns. The Gayborhood got a h new mural at the start of Pri Month 2021 when muralist Ash Ryan fished this three-story-tall tribute to pop star Lil Nas X.

PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS

Historic Gayborhood Markers. Get your history straight wh historic LGBTQ+ markers sprkled throughout the Gayborhood, cludg:.

In 1965, the Universy of Pennsylvania expelled Fryer om his psychiatric rincy program on the basis of his homosexualy, which was then classified as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA). In 1972, Fryer, a faculty member at the Temple Universy School of Medice, offered an electrifyg anonymo ttimony that rulted the APA’s 1973 classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns.

Philalphia Gay News Marker: This marker stands ont of the first office of the Philalphia Gay News, one of the natn’s most award-wng weekly newspapers.

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Inpennce Hall was the se of the untry’s earlit anized recurrg gay rights monstratns, begng July 4, 1965.

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Meetg atten planned the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. 3rd Street to the gay activists who found the cy’s first LGBTQ+ ffeehoe. Like most gay men the first half of the 20th century, Locke remaed closeted throughout his life.

A pneer the LGBTQ+ rights movement, Gtgs, a Philalphia rint om age 18 and a lifetime activist, eded The Ladr, the natn’s first lbian magaze; -anized the Annual Remrs at Inpennce Hall (see above) and led charg both to promote posive LGBTQ+ lerature public librari and to change the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Across Broad Street, a sign at 13th and Loct streets the Gayborhood clar the thoroughfare Barbara Gtgs Way.

It’s where radil gay llective Gazoo found Philalphia’s Gay Liberatn Front and where bisexual blu sger Bsie Smh performed at the Royal Theatre, an early 20th-century Black-owned cultural center. Today, the street’s known for s Magic Garns, cheteak shops and hangouts, cludg dive bar extraordaire Bob & Barbara’s Lounge, home of one of Philly’s bt-loved drag shows; the punk art LGBTQ+ haven Tattooed Mom; and the eclectic, gay-owned boutique shop Workshop Unrground.

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Disabily is proment the queer and trans muny wh 30 percent of gay and bisexual men and 36 percent of lbian and bisexual women also intifyg as havg a disabily. He repeatedly said, “Informatn is power, ” and found the Cril Path Project, an HIV/AIDS rource anizatn that provid rmatn and a 24-hour hotle for the Philalphia gay muny.

Johnson, one of the most proment figur the Stonewall uprisg of 1969, was an Amerin gay liberatn activist who scribed herself as a gay person, a transvte, and a drag queen and ed she/her pronouns.

Johnson was also an outspoken advote for gay rights and for the rights of psychiatric patients like herself. Among the ristance work STAR did was to ll for an end to non-nsensual psychiatric rceratns of gay, lbian and trans people. Johnson also lled for an end to nversn therapy and other forced therapi ed to “cure” lbian, gay and trans people of their sexual and genr inti.

1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE

Wh his mother, Jeanne Manford, he -found PFLAG (Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) 1973. PFLAG is the first and largt anizatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and fai, and alli. In 1972, after Morty was beaten and attacked durg a prott, Jeanne Manford wrote a letter to the New York Post which she said, “I am the mother of a homosexual son.

” Soon after, she began givg terviews wh Morty and marched wh him the Gay Pri Para. Kenny Fri is a longtime gay and disabily rights activist, world-renowned poet and memoirist, who was born wh shortened and twisted legs.

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Fri is the thor of many books and scholarly works and has wrten extensively lerary and other venu on the tersectn of gayns and disabily his own life and the larger muny. The majory of Fri’ books and poems were wrten due to his experienc as a disabled, gay Jewish man.

CNN anchor Anrson Cooper broke ground broadstg as an out gay man.