The Unsung History of Circu Parti, Where Gay Men Seek Sex and Freedom

Contents:

• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• JOURNEYS; ON GAY CIRCU, THE PARTY NEVER ENDS
• GAY CIRCU PARTI DURG COVID SPARKED A “CIVIL WAR.” CAN ANYONE W?
• THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM
• NEW YORK CY GAY TRAVEL
• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

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This year’s So Many Issu wh Las: The JUST SAY GAY Show featur some well-known talents om the LGBTQIA+ muny, cludg Asha Ward, Freeda Kulo, Nick Gaga and more. topletetopleteFiltersDateCategoryFormatPriceLanguageCurrencyMost popular matchMulberry Pri Party’sFri, Aug 11 • 1:00 PM The Mulberry TreeMulberry Pri Party’sFri, Aug 11 • 1:00 PM The Mulberry TreeMonday Pool Party: Pretty Girls Love Pool Parti - Pri EdnMon, Sep 4 • 3:00 PM Midtown AtlantaMonday Pool Party: Pretty Girls Love Pool Parti - Pri EdnMon, Sep 4 • 3:00 PM Midtown AtlantaBelfast Pri - Santanr Para participatnTomorrow • 11:00 AMBelfast Pri - Santanr Para participatnTomorrow • 11:00 AMPri Toastmasters MeetgThu, Aug 3 • 6:00 PM + 8 moreThe Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy CenterPri Toastmasters MeetgThu, Aug 3 • 6:00 PM + 8 moreThe Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy CenterPri CelebratnThu, Aug 10 • 2:00 PM Marsha P. Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L.

She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance. In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s.

Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy. “Be wh gay people, help the movement, help unmask the li beg told about , rrect the notn of homosexualy as a sickns and prent as is, a betiful way to love. In 1969, she and another activist, Nancy Tucker, spun off a newspaper of their own, The Gay Bla, which beme the Washgton Bla, the untry’s olst L.

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Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr. Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic. “The whole notn of gay people publicly exprsg their sentiments that fashn was beyond nceptualizatn until we started dog , ” the Mattache Society’s -founr, Frankl E.

”Her send film, “Gay and Proud, ” documented the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para 1970, a memoratn of the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg Manhattan.

“Gay and Proud” shows a much larger, and shaggier, gatherg of protters takg a more ant stance the para, chantg fiantly and wavg plards wh msag like “I am a lbian and I am betiful. J., Vcenz regnized her sexualy early on, she said a 2008 terview, and “ beme paful after a while to realize that I was gay and I didn’t know anyone else who was gay.

THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM

But after a stt as an edor the book publishg dtry, she cid to jo the Army, part bee she had heard was “a hotbed of gay people, ” acrdg to Ms. Farman’s putative hotbed, however, had a policy banng gay people om service, and she was thrown out while trag as a nropsychiatric technician at the Walter Reed ary hospal the 1970s, Dr. Vcenz ran a weekly discsn ssn lled the Gay Women’s Open Hoe, which functned as a marketplace of ias and sanctuary of sorts for lbians the Washgton area.

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“I fd a privilege to work wh gay people who are, general, so much more urageo, novative and open to new ias than the average straight person, ” she told Gay Today. It was Washgton — not Bethda, Md., where is we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: Lilli Vcenz, a Trailblazer the Gay Rights Movement, Di at 85.

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Palm Canyon Drive, the town's ma street, is sudnly populated by gay men (and a sprklg of their female iends) walkg shirtls, hand hand. All day and night the sound of techno the gay muny, the Whe Party is what is known as a ''circu party, '' and is jt one of a hundred such events that take place around the untry (and hundreds more around the globe) all year-round, cludg the Cherry 9 Washgton this weekend. There is also the Black Party New York, the Black & Blue Ftival Montreal, Mardi Gras Sydney, the Whe Party and the Wter Party Miami, the Fireball Chigo or Gay Days Orlando.

''The tth is, many gay men growg up felt separate and different, '' said Kelly Woodff, a New York terr signer, as he took the scene at the Whe Party.