Gloria Frankel & The Seahorse: The South Bend LGBT Club’s Fight for Gay Rights – The Indiana History Blog

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In 2015, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend announced a South Bend Tribune op-ed that he was gay, makg him Indiana’s first openly gay mayor.

In 1974, Gloria Frankel and her gay club, The Seahorse Cabaret, whstood police harassment, challenged regulatns agast LGBT dividuals, and endured a firebombg. In this post, we explore the fight for gay rights the Michiana area and the trepid woman who lead the charge.

Acrdg to Ben Weland’s “Then and Now: The Origs and Development of the Gay Communy South Bend, ” Frankel opened South Bend’s first gay club the early 1970s. The rts immediately forward the gay liberatn movement and the fight for LGBT rights Ameri. LGBT dividuals smaller ci palized on the momentum by openg bars that fostered gay muni and provid them wh a relatively safe space for entertament, dialogue, and activism.

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In 2005, Frankel relled “I always wanted to open a bar where gay people openly socialized wh each other. And at the time, beg ught a gay bar would land you jail and lose you your job.

” Weland ntend that The Seahorse was nsired a threat by law enforcement bee “beme more than jt a hole the wall, looked to the opposn like hope; a hope for visibily, mastream appeal, and a pot of anizatn for the gay movement. The Lambda Society* of Michiana was also ncerned wh laws discrimatg agast the gay muny, urgg newsletter rears 1974 and 1975 to wre their legislators. It noted that the anizatn was found “bee gay is more than sexual preference, and bee gay n be more than jt an alternative life style.

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Newsletter articl about the 1974 Indiana Gay Awarens Conference Bloomgton, Indiana give a wdow to the origs of mobilized polil actn for Michiana’s LGBT muny.

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One article noted that after discsg issu that gay dividuals enuntered wh their fai, police, landlords, and employers, the cisn was ma to “addrs the problem, which is not that we are crimals, but how to help others al wh their problems wh homosexualy. ” There was a panel discsn regardg “Gayns and the Law” and efforts were ma to aid attorneys handlg related s.

Cover of, September 8, 1975, a year of natnal nversatn about gay acceptance. ” However, planted the seeds for unified efforts to change perspectiv about homosexuals. ” The thor nclud by statg “I learned more about others and my own attut [sic] towards homosexuals and straights....

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Frankel too sought to forward the rights, inty, and well-beg of the gay muny. Frankel also served as an unofficial mentor to others South Bend who tablished gay bars, such as Jeannie’s Tavern and Vickie’s. Frankel ntued to serve as a pillar of South Bend’s gay muny when she led the lol fight agast HIV/AIDS the early 1990s, fundg AIDS mistri and makg The Seahorse a ce of ee HIV ttg.

Frankel stated “At that time gays were beg terribly discrimated agast, and many were aaid to go [to] the health partment to get tted.

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*Lambda Legal Non-Prof Organizatn was found 1973 as “the natn’s first legal anizatn dited to achievg full equaly for lbian and gay people. Diane Frerick, “Homosexualy Laws Vary Wily, ” Indianapolis News, Augt 22, 1975, 1, Indiana State Library, Clippgs File-Homosexualy. Ben Weland, “Then and Now: The Origs and Development of the Gay Communy South Bend, ” Indiana Universy South Bend Unrgraduate Rearch Journal of History, vol.

All of that is not to mentn that South Bend is well-known for electg openly gay mayor and former printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg.

Unlike some larger ci that tend to have one specific “gayborhood, ” the LGBTQ muny South Bend is sprkled throughout the cy, and tly, anywhere the cy would make a wonrful place to ll home.

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