Joe Redburn, founr of two famo Salt Lake Cy gay bars, di homels shelter at 82

Contents:

• GAY AREA CHTER COUNTY
• VIBRANT BUT INVISIBLE: GAY LIFE WTCHTER COUNTY
• GAY CISG CHTER (SOUTH DAKOTA)
• GAY FARMS, VA HOM FOR SALE & REAL ESTATE
• GAY FARMS, VA HOM FOR SALE & REAL ESTATE
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• JOE REDBURN, FOUNR OF TWO FAMO SALT LAKE CY GAY BARS, DI HOMELS SHELTER AT 82

GAY AREA CHTER COUNTY

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VIBRANT BUT INVISIBLE: GAY LIFE WTCHTER COUNTY

But the lack of a hive muny and the arth of gay meetg plac n be difficult for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rints. “People might not know the cheerful pharmacist is gay or the mail rrier is a lbian. “There’s no ‘gayborhood’ Wtchter, ” says Juhren.

The LOFT is the center of gay life Wtchter. Gay polics. Gay Marriage.

GAY CISG CHTER (SOUTH DAKOTA)

Wtchter’s gay marriage laws are also more progrsive than those of New York State as a whole. In 2006, a nservative group lled the Alliance Defense Fund sued, claimg Spano didn’t have the right to regnize gay marriag. There has actually been at least one gay Wtchter weddg legally regnized by New York: the marriage of Whe Plas lbian uple Joann Przivalli and Tdy Katz.

Acrdg to a recent survey of transgenr life by the Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, 21 percent of trangenred people reported an attractn to the same genr. “Straight transpeople n’t get married, but gay transpeople n. “No gay ghetto”.

GAY FARMS, VA HOM FOR SALE & REAL ESTATE

A gay muny ually isn’t a top reason.

“I get emails all the time askg me where Wtchter’s a good place to live if you’re gay, ” says Gregg Cartage of Pound Ridge, who ns The LOFT’s parentg group. The fay later moved to Cortlandt Manor, where they are the only gay parents they know of their kids’ elementary school. The uple miss the gay muny they had Hell’s Kchen.

GAY FARMS, VA HOM FOR SALE & REAL ESTATE

He says they haven’t taken much advantage of the gay muny at The LOFT bee, like many Wtchter fai, they’re by wh work and fay. Many gay upl are preoccupied wh their fai and rponsibili, and see no need for a gay bar. Ask an olr gay Wtchter rint about the nightlife, and you’ll hear about how much better ed to be.

In the 1980s and 1990s, there were at least four gay bars and rtrants Wtchter— Whe Plas and Port Chter.

For a full-time gay bar, rints mt head to Barz Nyack, New York, or to one of the many optns New York Cy. Everyone has his or her own theory on the cle of the Wtchter gay bar: homophobic landlords, petn om New York Cy, an olr crowd. “There ed to be a place we lled Rosie’s, a great gay rtrant Whe Plas, ” says Vnie of Yorktown.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

This phenomenon of gay bars leavg and not beg replaced isn’t unique to Wtchter. A 2008 study at the Universy of Mnota School of Public Health entled “Are Gay Communi Dyg or Jt Transn? ” found that the number and populary of gay bars and clubs were cle the 17 ci 14 different untri surveyed.

Elements is not a gay bar, but ’s really opened s doors to . One recent Sunday night, the crowd was mostly young gay men, wh a smatterg of lbians and straight women—cludg Aimee Feeney, of Silver Lake, who was celebratg her 22nd birthday. “People don’t know how many gays there are Wtchter.

“I wish I had the pal to build my own gay bar, ” Burke says. He adds that he expects to manage at a gay bar slated to open Valhalla.

JOE REDBURN, FOUNR OF TWO FAMO SALT LAKE CY GAY BARS, DI HOMELS SHELTER AT 82

It also hosts a yearly gay prom, which this year drew some 100 youngsters om the unty and beyond. Sce 1999, PriWorks has been hosted by the LGBT youth anizatn Center Lane; Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN); Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG); as well as Wtchter County. While there have been no highly publicized acts of lol bullyg, suici, or nials of prom dat that have grabbed headl, there is still homophobia the schools—and the most recent data, om 2003, say that only 23 of the 44 school districts Wtchter have polici that specifilly addrs sexual orientatn.

“The anti-LGBT problem the schools n range om kids nstantly hearg ‘That’s so gay, ’ to direct verbal and physil asslt, ” says Mary Jane Karger, the -chair of GLSEN’s Hudson Valley Chapter. There are 44 public and private high schools Wtchter wh gay-straight alliance chapters—up om only two 1997. Shontay Richardson, 19, who me out as queer eighth gra, helped start Dobbs Ferry High School’s gay-straight alliance three years ago.

But now, she’s one of the few plac Wtchter where there is a growg gay muny: SUNY Purchase.