Gay Marriage Archiv - Philalphia Magaze

Contents:

• GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®
• PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
• TIE-THE-KNOT TUDAY: BT PHILALPHIA GAY-FRIENDLY WEDDG VENDORS, SO FAR
• 1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
• MAC FIGHTS GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY PHILALPHIA
• PENNSYLVANIA GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED BY JUDGE

GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®

Get Your History Straight and Your Nightlife Gay®. Standg directly across the street om Inpennce Hall, a historic marker honors the Annual Remrs, the monstratn held at this se led by gay activists on July 4 om 1965 to 1969, the last of which occurred jt days after the history-makg Stonewall Rts.

PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS

Philalphia was the first cy the Uned Stat to lnch a major marketg mpaign (“Get Your History Straight and Your Nightlife Gay®”) to wele LGBTQ+ tourism, and reprents a trove of cultural, culary, artistic and ethnic diversy. Don’t miss a vis to the Gayborhood, a Center Cy neighborhood that sets self apart wh rabow street signs as well as rtrants and bars owned by and terg to LGBTQ+-intified clientele.

TIE-THE-KNOT TUDAY: BT PHILALPHIA GAY-FRIENDLY WEDDG VENDORS, SO FAR

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. 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.

1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE

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. 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.

MAC FIGHTS GAY MARRIAGE

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

GAY PHILALPHIA

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.

PENNSYLVANIA GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED BY JUDGE

Outsi Cy Hall, hundreds gathered for a rally to celebrate the victory, many cheerg when the gay pri rabow flag was raised on the pole. Until last year, Pennsylvania retaed a law that ma homosexualy a crime. Now is the time to fix this a bipartisan way, as we did last term wh removg homosexualy om the Crim Co.

One of our favore new lumns, Tie-the-Knot Tuday, has featured a host of Philalphia-area gay upl who have shared their marriage stori wh our rears. We thought was ftg to pture some of the bt vendors, the venu, food, and florists that our upl selected as beg gay-iendly and fun. The gay-iendly statnary signer was the pick of Adria and Stephanie Bartash, our first-ever Tie-the-Knot uple.

The webse for the stud is geo, and provis a host of pictur and portfols of how they created betiful weddgs for both gay and straight upl. If you’re a gay or lbian uple married Pennsylvania, we want to hear om you. After he signed marriage licens for about three dozen gay upl, Pennsylvania’s Department of Health — which was overseen by Republin Gov.