NYC's Olst Gay Bar Ma a Landmark for Its Role LGBTQ+ History

Contents:

• NYC’S OLST GAY BAR, JULI’ BAR, GETS LANDMARK DIGNATN
• UNANIMO VOTE WILL LANDMARK ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, JULI’
• JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS SIGNATED AS DIVIDUAL LANDMARK
• BEFORE STONEWALL, THERE WAS JULI’, NYC’S OLST GAY BAR
• JULI'NEW YORK CYMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEON TODAYBARSLBIAN BARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASMASSAGECULTURESHOPSLGBT+ ATTRACTNSCY GUIGAY TOURSRTRANTSGAY BEACHGAY MAPGAY WEDDGSJULI'
• NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
• JULI' BAR, SE OF HISTORIC GAY 'SIP-,' THREATENED BY PANMIC
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS ON TRACK TO BEE CY LANDMARK
• JULI BAR, AN INIC NYC GAY BAR, MAY BEE CY LANDMARK

NYC’S OLST GAY BAR, JULI’ BAR, GETS LANDMARK DIGNATN

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The cy lled the bar “one of the cy’s most signifint s of LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer) history” the news release. Juli’ was the se of the 1966 “Sip-, ” a prott agast homophobic discrimatn – although at the time, the bar wasn’t an explicly LGBT space.

Four men named Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, John Timmons, and Randy Wicker staged the event to prott the persecutn of gay men for drkg public, acrdg to the Natnal Park Service. So bars often refed to serve clients who they knew were gay. At Juli’, the men announced they were gay – and the bartenr refed to serve them, sayg was illegal.

UNANIMO VOTE WILL LANDMARK ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, JULI’

“Gays uld legally drk a bar. And today, openly scrib self as a gay bar on s social media.

JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK

“As a gay man who enjoys untls eedoms that were unimagable their time, I owe enormo bt to the activists who ma Juli’ Bar the se of their prott. On April 21, 1966, a “Sip-In” was anized by members of the Mattache Society, one of the untry’s earlit gay rights anizatns, to challenge the State Liquor Authory’s discrimatory policy of revokg the licens of bars that served known or spected gay men and lbians.

The publicized event – at which they were refed service after tentnally revealg they were “homosexuals” – was one of the earlit pre-Stonewall public actns for LGBT rights as well as a big step forward the eventual velopment of legimate LGBT bars New York Cy.

By the 1960s, Juli’ began attractg gay men, although was not exclively a gay bar. On April 21, 1966, members of the Mattache Society, an early gay rights group, anized what beme known as the “Sip-In. ” Their tent was to challenge New York State Liquor Authory (SLA) regulatns that were promulgated so that bars uld not serve drks to known or spected gay men or lbians, sce their prence was nsired facto disorrly.

ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS SIGNATED AS DIVIDUAL LANDMARK

The SLA regulatns were one of the primary ernmental mechanisms of opprsn agast the gay muny bee they preclud the right to ee assembly. This was particularly important bee bars were one of the few plac where gay people uld meet each other.

The Sip-In was part of a larger mpaign by more radil members of the Mattache Society to clarify laws and l that hibed the nng of gay bars as legimate, non-mob tablishments and to stop the harassment of gay bar patrons.

BEFORE STONEWALL, THERE WAS JULI’, NYC’S OLST GAY BAR

Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and John Timmons, acpanied by several reporters, went to a number of bars, announced that they were “homosexuals, ” and asked to be served a drk.

…when we walked , the bartenr put glass ont of , and we told him that we were gay and we tend to rema orrly, we jt wanted service.

And he said, hey, you’re gay, I n’t serve you, and he put his hands over the top of the glass, which ma wonrful photographs. The reactn by the State Liquor Authory and the newly empowered New York Cy Commissn on Human Rights rulted a change policy and the birth of a more open gay bar culture. Scholars of gay history nsir the Sip-In at Juli’ a key event leadg to the growth of legimate gay bars and the velopment of the bar as the central social space for urban gay men and lbians.

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The Greenwich Village waterg hole at 159 Wt 10th Street (aka 188 Waverly Place) was unanimoly voted is nsired not only the olst gay bar New York Cy but also one of the olst ntually operatg bars overall. At the time of the “sip-, ” State Liquor Authory (SLA) l prohibed bars om servg gay ctomers.

NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

On April 21, 1966, three gay men om the New York Cy Mattache Society set out to vis four bars and tentnally fy the regulatns prott.

JULI' BAR, SE OF HISTORIC GAY 'SIP-,' THREATENED BY PANMIC

The New York Cy Mattache Society was a group anized 1950 to promote gay rights.

When the bartenr approached the three men, they clared that they were gay.

In 1967, the state urt led that the SLA l vlated gay patrons’ right to peacefully assemble and that bars uldn’t close down solely bee of sam-sex kissg or touchg.

ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS ON TRACK TO BEE CY LANDMARK

The ti-changg se helped ph the gay rights movement forward. Protter and former chairman of the Mattache Society Dick Lesch told NPR 2008, “until this time gay people had never really fought back. Though the bar was never exclively a gay bar, began to attract a predomantly LGBTQ+ clientele durg the 1960s.

Unrground tunnels and seven different entranc and exs were ed as pe rout durg prohibn raids the 1920s and gay bars raids the 1960s. In 2013, Village Prervatn formally proposed Juli’, along wh the Stonewall Inn, the LGBT Communy Center at 208 Wt 13th Street, and the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehoe at 99 Wooster Street, as the cy’s very first signated LGBTQ+ landmarks.

While the signatn for Juli’ is a major step forward prervg LGBTQ+ history, Andrew Berman, Executive Director of Village Prervatn, not there are still many other LGBTQ+ s that still need protectn, “cludg the former headquarters of the first natnal gay rights anizatn at 80 Fifth Avenue, the home of one of 19th-century New York’s leadg csars for votg rights and eedom for Ain Amerins at 50 Wt 13th Street, the former headquarters of the NYC Woman Sufage League at 10 Wt 14th Street, and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary at 218 Send Avenue, where groundbreakg re and servic have been provid for the visually and hearg impaired for over 150 years.

JULI BAR, AN INIC NYC GAY BAR, MAY BEE CY LANDMARK

One of NYC’s olst gay bars, Juli’, is fally gettg the regnn serv as the NYC Landmarks Prervatn Commissn voted this morng, Tuday, December 6, to landmark the bar.