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- WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- FEATURED FANFICTN
- HUNDREDS REMISCE ABOUT HISTORIL DETRO GAY BAR SCENE
WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
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Lemon is gay and married, while Hice said the terview he is heterosexual.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Lemon’s attorneys said s rponse to the lawsu that the CNN host “is often subjected to racist and homophobic harassment” and nied any asslt. “I absolutely wasn’t htg on him whatsoever, ’’ Hice said of Lemon, 53, who is gay and married. This group is for discsn and support for those who fall between, for the "shas of gay" what is often assumed to be one or the other:.
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Gay nightclubs sprg up, like the Cove Morngsi and the Armory Midtown, as well as drag bars like Hollywood Hots on Chhire Bridge and Mrs. He gets help when Blake’s, the gay Cheers, opens.
FEATURED FANFICTN
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.
HUNDREDS REMISCE ABOUT HISTORIL DETRO GAY BAR SCENE
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.