U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Snlon, D-Pennsylvania, was rjacked at gunpot by two spects near FDR Park South Philalphia on Wednday afternoon, a spokperson for the Congrswoman said. The spects stole her personal belonggs before fleeg the scene her Acura MDX. Snlon, 62, was not physilly harmed the cint. An vtigatn is unrway wh Philalphia police.
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- 1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
- TWO NEW BARS THE GAYBORHOOD ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE OF LOR, MARKG A MAJOR SHIFT
- TOP GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
- THUNR WAIV RUDY GAY, PER REPORT, CLEARG WAY FOR JACK WHE
- GAY PHILALPHIA
- CLUB PHILLYPHILALPHIAMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASSHOPSCY GUIGAY MAPCLUB PHILLY
- U.S. REP. MARY GAY SNLON RJACKED AT GUNPOT SOUTH PHILLY ON WEDNDAY AFTERNOON
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Tavern on Camac is one of the olst gay bars Philalphia, if not the olst. Was a Prohibn-era speakeasy and “gentleman’s club” lled Maxe’s, where lol gay men, soldiers, and sailors would nverge.
A lot of socializg among the cy’s queer rints durg the ’40s and ’50s happened at hoe parti anized by Quaker-affiliated groups, acrdg to thor Marc Ste, who vered the era his book “Cy of Sisterly and Brotherly Lov: Lbian and Gay Philalphia.
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Durg the middle of the century Rtenhoe Square was the cy’s gay moment. “Saturday night is the gayt night of the week, ” read a story on the Rtenhoe queer scene Greater Philalphia Magaze.
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In 1962, the Jan Society was found Philalphia, makg one of the first rerd and publicly known “homophile” anizatns the cy. Dewey’s, a malted k and ice cream vendg cha, had two stor that remaed on the Philly gaydar. Dewey’s Rtenhoe lotn, on the other hand, would ny service, discrimatg agast “homosexuals, ” “mascule women, ” “feme men” and “persons wearg non-nformist clothg.
In 1968, then-Police Commissner Frank Rizzo orred raids on gay bars (and on anybody he emed “unsirable”), leadg many to be verbally and physilly abed by officers. The first gay pri monstratn Philalphia took place Jun. The neighborhood that would eventually be monikered “the Gayborhood” by Cy Paper’s David Warner flourished immensely.
The first and olst LGBTQ bookstore the Uned Stat, Gvanni’s Room, would open a year after the events at the Gay Pri Celebratn. Enomic growth, betifitn of the area and a cle the crime-rate were propelled by Philalphia’s first LGBT muny center openg 1976 (William Way) and the tablishment of s first publicly-distributed newspaper (Philalphia Gay News), s first gay bs group openg 1977 (Communy Alliance of Philalphia) and s first LGBT health and wellbeg center 1979 (the Mazzoni Center). To discs the creepg rise of “Kaposi’s Sara and Opportunistic Infectns” afflictg gay men, a disease that would later be termed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
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LGBTQ movements, spac, anizatns and efforts the cy, up until then, had maly been domated by and tered to the needs of whe homosexual men. (The Gayborhood mural memoratg Casarez was whewashed by velopers last year.
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Over the next few years, cints of racism and discrimatn surfaced at several Gayborhood bars.
U.S. REP. MARY GAY SNLON RJACKED AT GUNPOT SOUTH PHILLY ON WEDNDAY AFTERNOON
“While nng the events is not fislly rewardg, there is great satisfactn knowg that we’re an event where many people get to disver themselv, ” said Baron Battersea, one of the -founrs of the Aviary, a monthly BDSM event held at the William Way LGBT Communy Center the Gayborhood. Two bars opened recently the Gayborhood that are owned and operated by people of lor, markg a big culture shift for the LGBTQ enclave Center Cy, where racism has been documented for years. Racism has been scribed as prevalent Philly’s gay nightlife sce at least the 1980s.
Philly drag queen Ta Montgomery has felt the unrcurrent of racism the Gayborhood for her entire reer. The Gayborhood is further gentrifyg now — ’s often lled Midtown Village, and wel jt as many straight bachelorette parti as queer ctomers. ” She hop this is jt the start of a diversifyg Gayborhood.