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• THE SEXUALY OF SAM COOKEDID THE SOUL IN IN KEEP SECRETS?JONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·5 M READ·MAR 31, 2021--1SHAREHE’S LLED THE MOST FLUENTIAL ‘SOUL ARTIST’ OF ALL TIME. SAM COOKE SANG INIC SONGS LIKE “YOU SEND ME” OR “A CHANGE IS GONNA COME.” HE’S KNOWN AS—STRAIGHT?THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT, BUT THEN I WAS READG A 2012 SAY LLECTN BY THE MIC SCHOLAR ANTHONY HEILBUT, THE FAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, WHICH MENTNS THAT COOKE WAS BISEXUAL.SAM COOKE, “TRIBUTE TO THE LADY” LP (1959)I LOOK AROUND, AND FD NO OTHER TALK OF COOKE BEG BISEXUAL.A 2005 BGRAPHY BY DANIEL WOLFF, YOU SEND ME: THE LIFE AND TIM OF SAM COOKE, SCRIB THE SGER AS QUE A FAN OF WOMEN. AS WOLFF NARRAT:“HE HAD A SEEMGLY BOTTOMLS APPETE, AND WASN’T JT SEXUAL. HE LOVED THE PANNSHIP. HE LOVED TALKG WH WOMEN, TRYG OUT NEW SONGS ON THEM; HE LOVED JT HANGG OUT. AND THEY, TURN, LOVED HIM.”I FLIP THROUGH THE 2005 BGRAPHY, DREAM BOOGIE: THE TRIUMPH OF SAM COOKE BY PETER GURALNICK, AND FD NO MENTN OF COOKE BEG BISEXUAL. HE NOT THAT COOKE HAD APPEAL FOR BOTH SEX, GENERATG A “PANSEXUAL HYSTERIA.”GURALNICK QUOT A GAY RERD PROMOTER MIAMI SAYG THAT COOKE’S “PRETTY BOY” IMAGE LEFT HIM “AFFECTED EXACTLY THE SAME WAY AS THE WOMEN.”COOKE HAD A TRICKY TASK OF BEG A BLACK MAN SGG TO WHE DIENC.
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THE SEXUALY OF SAM COOKEDID THE SOUL IN IN KEEP SECRETS?JONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·5 M READ·MAR 31, 2021--1SHAREHE’S LLED THE MOST FLUENTIAL ‘SOUL ARTIST’ OF ALL TIME. SAM COOKE SANG INIC SONGS LIKE “YOU SEND ME” OR “A CHANGE IS GONNA COME.” HE’S KNOWN AS—STRAIGHT?THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT, BUT THEN I WAS READG A 2012 SAY LLECTN BY THE MIC SCHOLAR ANTHONY HEILBUT, THE FAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, WHICH MENTNS THAT COOKE WAS BISEXUAL.SAM COOKE, “TRIBUTE TO THE LADY” LP (1959)I LOOK AROUND, AND FD NO OTHER TALK OF COOKE BEG BISEXUAL.A 2005 BGRAPHY BY DANIEL WOLFF, YOU SEND ME: THE LIFE AND TIM OF SAM COOKE, SCRIB THE SGER AS QUE A FAN OF WOMEN. AS WOLFF NARRAT:“HE HAD A SEEMGLY BOTTOMLS APPETE, AND WASN’T JT SEXUAL. HE LOVED THE PANNSHIP. HE LOVED TALKG WH WOMEN, TRYG OUT NEW SONGS ON THEM; HE LOVED JT HANGG OUT. AND THEY, TURN, LOVED HIM.”I FLIP THROUGH THE 2005 BGRAPHY, DREAM BOOGIE: THE TRIUMPH OF SAM COOKE BY PETER GURALNICK, AND FD NO MENTN OF COOKE BEG BISEXUAL. HE NOT THAT COOKE HAD APPEAL FOR BOTH SEX, GENERATG A “PANSEXUAL HYSTERIA.”GURALNICK QUOT A GAY RERD PROMOTER MIAMI SAYG THAT COOKE’S “PRETTY BOY” IMAGE LEFT HIM “AFFECTED EXACTLY THE SAME WAY AS THE WOMEN.”COOKE HAD A TRICKY TASK OF BEG A BLACK MAN SGG TO WHE DIENC.

For four years, Melenz ran a gay club upstairs om her nventnal Lato dive. And even after the upstairs gay bar closed, Sammy’s Place has mataed an “LGBT-iendly” atmosphere, Melenz said.

“Here, you uld be gay, bisexual, lbian, and be wh your culture, ” said Jose Figueroa, manager and bartenr at Sammy’s Place. Everythg is the Gayborhood.

Gay bars are more than jt a place to drk and dance. A New York gay bar lled The Stonewall Inn talyzed the morn LGBTQ rights movement the Uned Stat. At tim, acts of homophobic vlence have also filtrated the spac.

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“I was nervo…sh, sred, ” Melenz said of openg her own gay nightclub.

One downstairs regular named Cheo was among the most volly homophobic, g Spanish slurs agast his fellow ctomers. The end of the gay bar spelled the end for Melenz and Torr, too.

His son is gay, and he has seen what LGBTQ people go through on their journey to acceptance.