Neo-Nazis Vlently Attacked a Gay Bar & It Was All Cght on Camera

Contents:

• NEO-NAZIS ATTACK GAY BAR WHILE SCREAMG ‘WHE POWER’ & ANTIGAY SLURS
• GANG OF MASKED NEO-NAZI THUGS VLENTLY ATTACK GAY BAR BONE-CHILLG VIO
• AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE

NEO-NAZIS ATTACK GAY BAR WHILE SCREAMG ‘WHE POWER’ & ANTIGAY SLURS

Shelton had been DJg at a failg Lln Park dis lled Hoots, but she spent all her ee nights at O’Bann’s, a n-down gay bar River North that DJ Nancy Rapchak had turned punk the prev summer. Wh the club’s first few months bs, Shelton got a ll om Danny Heaps, who DJed at the Mudd Club, a New York venue spired by Chigo’s very first punk hangout, a former gay bar operatg unr the name La Mere Vipere. Punk club Oz, which emerged om a Rogers Park gay bar lled the Greenleaf shortly after the La Mere fire, moved twice before closg for good the middle of 1981.

How three gay bars—La Mere Vipere, O’Bann’s, and Oz—beme the cradle of the cy’s punk scene. Here before me were three men who were gay and died om AIDS.

GANG OF MASKED NEO-NAZI THUGS VLENTLY ATTACK GAY BAR BONE-CHILLG VIO

Then-Print Ronald Reagan did not mentn the word AIDS publicly for years until after his Hollywood iend Rock Hudson me out as gay and revealed that he was livg wh AIDS. The ernment was so adamant about not mentng AIDS that the topic was met wh lghter and homophobic remarks a 1982 prs nference which former Prs Secretary Larry Speak asked reporter Lter Ksolvg if he had AIDS.

AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE

In that time of ernmental neglect, misrmatn, and homophobia, Jake posed a challenge his piece. In my muny, ’s not unmon to hear someone mentn that homosexualy isn’t “Ain” or that homosexualy is an “agenda” beg phed by the whe mastream media to stroy the Black fay stcture.