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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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LGBT Elr IniativeGay Owned / Operated, LGBT Clientele, LGBT MissnThe LGBT Elr Iniative (LGBTEI) is mted to assurg that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr olr adults have rights and opportuni to live vibrant, creative…. 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.
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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.
THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
Historic s, popular neighborhoods, and LGBTQ+-owned bars and rtrants Philalphia's Gayborhood and beyond. * philly gay *
You have your choice of fabulo entertament and diversns as the bars and nightclubs of the Gayborhood e alive each night.
NEW HBO DOCERI REVISS 1990S SERIAL KILLGS OF GAY MEN OM PHILLY AND N.Y.
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Sce 2015, the brilliant rabow crosswalks at the tersectn of 13th and Loct Streets have served as an sential Gayborhood landmark. 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.
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 *
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).
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.
GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®
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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. Meetg atten planned the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights.
PHILLY GAY PRI MONTH
3rd Street to the gay activists who found the cy’s first LGBTQ+ ffeehoe.
PHILALPHIA GAY MAP
Like most gay men the first half of the 20th century, Locke remaed closeted throughout his life. 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.
MIDTOWN VILLAGE & THE GAYBORHOOD
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.