Ex-Mare Arrted Long Beach Gay Bar Attack - Belmont Shore-Napl, CA - The District Attorney's Office said Thursday he will be returned om Illois to face charg the alleged hate crime outsi the Silver Fox bar.
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- EX-MARE ARRTED LONG BEACH GAY BAR ATTACK
- THE GAY-FRIENDLY CI HAVE LOTS TO OFFER LGBTQ BUYERS—INCLUDG AFFORDABLE HOM
EX-MARE ARRTED LONG BEACH GAY BAR ATTACK
In 1974, Larry Hebert stepped si a gay bar for the first time. Even now, wh the cy long sce transformed om an Iowa-by-the-sea to a progrsive mec, Club Rippl is part of the soul of Long Beach’s gay muny. And then, Long Beach’s olst, ntuoly nng gay bar will shutter for good.
The bar opened 1972, three years after a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Lower Manhattan, sparked vlent clash between police and the LGBT muny — kick-startg the gay-rights movement. The reactns om those who feared or hated gay people was, at tim, vlent. Before Stonewall, and for years after, gay bars were the only place the muny uld go to feel safe and be themselv, said Marie Cartier, thor of “Baby, You are My Relign: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall.
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Gay bar culture, cludg at Rippl and other lol tablishments.
“The gay bar for people pre-Stonewall was lerally where they uld pull the gayns out of themselv, ” Cartier, a Long Beach rint, said an terview. In the 1960s and early ’70s, beg gay was still nsired by many a mental illns, and even the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn didn’t remove om the list of mental disorrs until 1973.
Every relign, Cartier said, emed those who were gay sners and unf to be parents. So, Cartier add, the gay bar beme the muny’s church. “The gay bar was the only place where somebody would look at you as a iend, ” she said, “and not immediately as all of those bad thgs.