In 1966, Juli’ was the se of a “Sip-In,” a prott agast anti-gay regulatns NYC.
Contents:
- THE OLST GAY BAR NYC HAS OFFICIALLY BEE A LANDMARK
- ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK
- THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
THE OLST GAY BAR NYC HAS OFFICIALLY BEE A LANDMARK
* what is the oldest gay bar in new york city *
New York's Lost Gay BarsWe've known for many years that too many of our cherished gay bars and clubs are shutterg, fallg victim to risg rents and the ubiquy of apps like Grdr and Scff.
There's a walkg tour New York to memorate beloved gay bars and clubs that have closed down. 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.
THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
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.