A new gay nightclub and a recently released TV mercial are among the latt ditors that Las Vegas ntu to wele LGBT visors.
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LAS VEGAS: GAY NIGHTCLUB TO OPEN BALLY’S
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A new gay nightclub and a recently released TV mercial are among the latt ditors that Las Vegas ntu to wele LGBT visors. Liaison, the latt visn om nightclub imprar Victor Drai, is to lnch June 20 at Bally’s, markg the first time an exclively gay club has opened si a rort on the Strip. “I thk ’s time, or possibly even past time, ” said Robert Peraza, the outreach ordator for the Gay and Lbian Communy Center of Southern Nevada.
“It is a ltle b surprisg, pecially given the amount of rourc many of the Strip properti vote toward diversy hirg and also toward their marketg to the LGBT muny, ” he a statement, Eduardo Cordova, Liaison’s creative director, said, “The importance of havg a gay nightclub a major hotel-so on the Strip is huge. Victor Drai, the nightlife gu behd Drai’s at The Cromwell, opened the first gay nightclub si a so last June. Once the rort opened, he nverted the club to a gay club, an historic moment for the LGBT muny.
"It’s really hard to believe that this is the first gay nightclub si a so on the Las Vegas Strip, " Drai said a prs statement before the openg. "I am tly humbled to be part of a new era for the gay muny. Whisnant:As early as the turn of the century, Berl's gay scene was attractg such notoriety that equently was mentned tourist lerature, liftg up the cy's gay scene as proof of the evils of urban life and the dangers of morny; them, Berl beme the untry's Sodom and Gomorrah put together, a sure sign of the land's the stag of Berl, the Tiller Girls showed off their legs, dancg a Rockett-style performance that amazed and tillated spectators.
THE HISTORY OF GAY NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK CY
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"In many of the rtrants, effemate homosexuals felt relaxed enough to "give ee re to their feme nature. By far the most famo was the Eldorado a nightclub whose ftive atmosphere attracted not only homosexuals but also artists, thors, celebri, and tourists wantg to admire a piece of "nt" Berl or tch a glimpse of someone Lbian Club SceneLbians uld also be found some of the bars that were voted mostly to gay men [and were] often seen the larger clubs of the 1920s, such as the Topp and the Eldorado. The Dorian Gray, one of the olst and bt-known gay clubs by the Weimar era, had a special night set asi for the turn of the century, there were also a handful of exclively lbian bars the cy.