Before Stonewall, There Was Juli’, NYC's Olst Gay Bar | We Enthiast

Contents:

• NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
• THE OLST GAY BAR NYC HAS OFFICIALLY BEE A LANDMARK
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK
• NYC’S OLST GAY BAR, JULI’ BAR, GETS LANDMARK DIGNATN
• JULI’, ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, MAY FALLY BEE A CY LANDMARK
• NYC'S OLST GAY BAR MAY SOON GET LANDMARK STAT
• NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS SIGNATED AS DIVIDUAL LANDMARK
• UNANIMO VOTE WILL LANDMARK ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, JULI’
• BEFORE STONEWALL, THERE WAS JULI’, NYC’S OLST GAY BAR
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS ON TRACK TO BEE CY LANDMARK
• NYC’S OLST GAY BAR HONORED WH HISTORIC PLAQUE
• JULI BAR, AN INIC NYC GAY BAR, MAY BEE CY LANDMARK

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

The Wt Village bar Juli' was the se of a 1966 "sip-" prott, when activists monstrated agast the closure of bars that served gay people. New York Cy's olst gay bar, Juli' Manhattan, is officially a landmark.

THE OLST GAY BAR NYC HAS OFFICIALLY BEE A LANDMARK

In 1966, Juli' was the se of a "sip-, " when three activists protted the closure of bars that served gay people. 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.

ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK

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

“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. The bar is the se where three activists staged a simple act of prott 1966: openly announcg they were gay, then orrg a drk. They lled a “sip-, ” and the three men, members of the Mattache Society, an early gay-rights group, were hopg to challenge the New York State Liquor Authory’s ban on servg LGBTQ patrons.

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

A bar uld be raid, and s liquor license rcd, for servg gay ctomers, who were nsired “disorrly” unr the le. One of the cy’s olst gay bars, Juli’ had already been add to the Natnal Register of Historic Plac 2016—along wh nearby Stonewall Inn, the se of the famo 1969 protts that helped spark the Amerin LGBTQ rights movement. The first bar on their planned circu, the Ukraian-Amerin Village Rtrant, knew of the prott and closed early; had a sign the wdow that read, “If you are gay, please go away, ” as the New York Tim’ Thomas A.

“I drk, ” he told the Tim, “and who’s to say whether I’m a homosexual or not. At the time, Juli’ “was a rather dull neighborhood place which was about three-quarters gay, ” Randy Wicker, who joed the other three later that day, told the Tim’ Jim Farber 2016. But when the men arrived at Juli’ and announced that they were gay, the manager refed to serve them.

Gay Rights,. 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.

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

At the time of the “sip-, ” State Liquor Authory (SLA) l prohibed bars om servg gay ctomers.

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. 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.

NYC'S OLST GAY BAR MAY SOON GET LANDMARK STAT

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.

NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK

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’, one of New York’s olst gay bars, is on track to bee a cy landmark.

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

A bar sce 1864, Juli' was thst to the foreont of the gay rights movement 1966 — three years before the Stonewall rts — when activists staged a peaceful "sip , " announcg they are homosexuals and askg to be served.

Before the Stonewall Inn beme known as the birthplace of the gay rights movement the U.

It was thst to the foreont of the gay rights movement 1966 — three years before the Stonewall rts.

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

Photos show three members of the Mattache society, a gay rights anizatn, challengg a regulatn that prohibed bars om servg LGBTQ people. The activists staged a peaceful "sip , " announcg they are homosexuals and askg to be served. The fight for LGBTQ equaly go back much further than the Stonewall rts, not thor Eric Cervi who discs his new book "The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vers the Uned Stat of Ameri.

Skip to ma ntentSoHo-Ltle Italy, NYChelsea, NYGramercy-Murray Hill, NYEast Village, NYTribe-FiDi, NYHoboken, NJLower East Si-Chatown, NYMidtown-Hell's Kchen, NYBrooklyn Heights-DUMBO, NYBrooklyn, NYNew YorkTop Natnal NewsSee All CommuniWEST VILLAGE, NY — Juli' Bar the Wt Village, nsired the longt-nng gay bar the cy, was officially ma a New York Cy landmark on buildg at 159 W. Was signated a landmark for the role played advancg the rights of gay and lbian New Yorkers, the Landmarks Prervatn Commissn explaed a news release.

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

WEST VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- New York Cy's Landmarks Prervatn Commissn voted on Tuday to signate Juli' Bar the Village as an dividual bar on 10th Street has been bs sce the 1860s and played an important role the fight for civil rights for the LGBTQ the 1960s, the state liquor thory did not allow people to be served alhol if they were openly gay. "Where the state liquor thory didn't allow homosexuals to be served alhol if they were openly gay.

ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS ON TRACK TO 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. Loted at 159 Wt 10th Street, Juli’ is one of NYC’s olst gay bars, which opened 1930 and was a se of prott agast laws and regulatns that banned service to those who intified as gay or lbian. On April 21, 1966, three gay men om the NYC Mattache Society anized a “Sip-In” which they vised four bars to challenge the regulatns.

“This early gay rights actn and the attendant publicy helped to raise awarens of wispread anti-LGBT discrimatn and harassment, ” reads a plaque fastened outsi Juli’ by the Village Prervatn and the NYC LGBT Historic S Project. A bartenr Juli’ ref to serve John Timms, Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and Randy Wicker, members of the Mattache Society, who were prottg liquor laws that prevented servg gay ctomers, April 21, 1966 / Photo by Fred W.

In the heart of the Wt Village, steps om the Christopher Street tra statn, stands a historic gay bar. Once, about a half a century ago, found self at the epicenter of an unprecented prott assertg gay people’s right to gather public spac whout police harassment.

NYC’S OLST GAY BAR HONORED WH HISTORIC PLAQUE

At the rner of Waverly Place and Wt 10th Street, Juli’ is the olst gay bar New York Cy.

The Sip-In was the brachild of the Mattache Society, an early gay rights group. Mattache, led by print Dick Lesch, was out to solve a problem: though the State Liquor Authory had no regulatn agast servg gay people bars, did prohib tablishments om servg “disorrly” patrons—and all gay people were nsired, by terpretatn, disorrly.

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

They would vis a bar, announce they were gay, and requt a drk. When the bs evably cled to serve them, they would file a plat wh the State Liquor Authory, forcg the state to regnize that refg to serve gay patrons was a vlatn of their civil rights.

Paradoxilly, was precisely Juli’ populary wh gay ctomers that ma a sure bet for the oute the Mattach sought. The activists knew the bar would not risk servg four men who sat down and publicly announced their homosexualy. The activists orred their drks, then stated they were gay.