Historic s, popular neighborhoods, and LGBTQ+-owned bars and rtrants Philalphia's Gayborhood and beyond.
Contents:
- PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
- THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
- NEW HBO DOCERI REVISS 1990S SERIAL KILLGS OF GAY MEN OM PHILLY AND N.Y.
- PHILLY’S GAY ARCHIVAL RERDS GO OUTSI FOR ‘AND INTO THE STREETS’
- GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®
- PHILLY GAY PRI MONTH
- PHILALPHIA GAY MAP
- MIDTOWN VILLAGE & THE GAYBORHOOD
PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
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Historic s, popular neighborhoods, and LGBTQ+-owned bars and rtrants Philalphia's Gayborhood and beyond... The Cy of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affectn hosted the untry’s first major monstratn for gay rights, the Annual Remrs, 1965. And today, Philly visors n easily explore s where LGBTQ+ history was ma and where queer life ntu to thrive, pecially the cy’s Gayborhood and durg annual events like Philly Pri 365.
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The Gayborhood.
The center of Philalphia’s gay rintial life and culture sce World War II, the blocks between 11th and Broad streets and Pe and Chtnut streets earned their nickname — the “Gayborhood”— durg an October Outft event 1995. You have your choice of fabulo entertament and diversns as the bars and nightclubs of the Gayborhood e alive each night. Shoppg the Gayborhood.
Sce 2015, the brilliant rabow crosswalks at the tersectn of 13th and Loct Streets have served as an sential Gayborhood landmark.
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Take a guid tour through the Gayborhood and learn more about the cy’s queer history wh help om Beyond the Bell Tour. The group’s LGBTQ and Trans History tours reunt the stori of Gay Liberatn Front – Philalphia founr Kiyoshi Kuromiya, explore morn history and current social issu the neighborhood, and stop at important muny s like the Attic Youth Center, which supports LGBTQ+ youth experiencg homelsns. The Gayborhood got a h new mural at the start of Pri Month 2021 when muralist Ash Ryan fished this three-story-tall tribute to pop star Lil Nas X.
Historic Gayborhood Markers. Get your history straight wh historic LGBTQ+ markers sprkled throughout the Gayborhood, cludg:. In 1965, the Universy of Pennsylvania expelled Fryer om his psychiatric rincy program on the basis of his homosexualy, which was then classified as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA).
PHILLY’S GAY ARCHIVAL RERDS GO OUTSI FOR ‘AND INTO THE STREETS’
'Last Call,' a new four-part HBO doceri, reviss the 1990s serial killgs of gay men who were picked up piano bars Manhattan. The first episo, which premiered Sunday, July 9 and is now streamg on Max, foc on the Philly-based vtment banker and sociale Peter Stickney Anrson and Thomas Mulhy, a salman om Massachetts whose body was found Burlgton County. * philly gay *
In 1972, Fryer, a faculty member at the Temple Universy School of Medice, offered an electrifyg anonymo ttimony that rulted the APA’s 1973 classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Philalphia Gay News Marker: This marker stands ont of the first office of the Philalphia Gay News, one of the natn’s most award-wng weekly newspapers.
Inpennce Hall was the se of the untry’s earlit anized recurrg gay rights monstratns, begng July 4, 1965.
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Meetg atten planned the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. 3rd Street to the gay activists who found the cy’s first LGBTQ+ ffeehoe. Like most gay men the first half of the 20th century, Locke remaed closeted throughout his life.
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A pneer the LGBTQ+ rights movement, Gtgs, a Philalphia rint om age 18 and a lifetime activist, eded The Ladr, the natn’s first lbian magaze; -anized the Annual Remrs at Inpennce Hall (see above) and led charg both to promote posive LGBTQ+ lerature public librari and to change the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns.
Across Broad Street, a sign at 13th and Loct streets the Gayborhood clar the thoroughfare Barbara Gtgs Way. It’s where radil gay llective Gazoo found Philalphia’s Gay Liberatn Front and where bisexual blu sger Bsie Smh performed at the Royal Theatre, an early 20th-century Black-owned cultural center. Today, the street’s known for s Magic Garns, cheteak shops and hangouts, cludg dive bar extraordaire Bob & Barbara’s Lounge, home of one of Philly’s bt-loved drag shows; the punk art LGBTQ+ haven Tattooed Mom; and the eclectic, gay-owned boutique shop Workshop Unrground.
Callg all LGBTQ travelers, gaggl of lol gays and their iends alike! Get your facts straight and your history GAY on this specialty tour of Philalphia’s inic Gayborhood. Disver the ntroversi, paradox, and hidn histori of the only formalized Gayborhood the untry.
PHILALPHIA GAY MAP
Before we prent you wh our list of bt gay bars Philalphia, a few tertg facts about the lol LGBTQ scene: almost every LGBTQ-centric statn the cy is found Gayborhood, an enclave Center Cy Philalphia that has quickly bee one of the most regnize neighborhoods town.
HBO's latt doceri exam a rash of murrs the early '90s known as the "last ll killgs, " as each victim was a picked up the middle of the night at a gay bar New York Cy. It vers a perd of three years, durg which four gay men disappeared om Manhattan, only for their dismembered bodi to be disvered off highways Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. A father of two, he was tranged om his send wife and seekg work the fancial dtry after leavg a high-profile job at Mellon Bank the doceri, his iend and former lover rells bumpg to him at the Manhattan fundraiser, gettg a drk wh him afterwards at the Townhoe Bar, a posh piano bar that tered to a gay clientele, and then sendg him a b to the Waldorf Astoria hotel after a bartenr cut Anrson off.
A portra of Kim om 1995, when she was her 20s, wearg a leather jacket and leather biker’s hat, is hung the park as part of a llage of historic photos culled om a gay history archive held at the nearby William Way Communy Center. Kim’s black-and-whe portra had appeared on the ver of the now-funct Philalphia gay newspaper Au Courant, the fil of which are now held the John J.
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Artist Rami Gee, the archive’s first artist--rince, has been bg through the llectn to assemble an unofficial history of Philalphia gay life. Their exhibn, “And Into The Streets, ” is partnership wh the Wilx archive and Mural Arts Philalphia, stalled one of the only public outdoor spac the cy’s so-lled Gayborhood.