GAY COMMUNITY 1970S | Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Wtern Rerve Universy

Contents:

• NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY BATHHO
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• GAY COMMUNITY 1970S
• FLEX, THE LA GAY BATHHOE, HAS RE-OPENED
• GAY USA
• GAYT PLAC IN OH FOR 2020
• GAY CLEVELAND
• A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
• NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO

NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY

The archectural featur of the repurposed old buildg are amazg, but the overall terr matenance and r choic uld e improvement to make the place she to be a statn for gay travelers. Why isn’t there a ncerted ernment effort — ak to the current anti-smokg mpaigns — to reign homosexual promiscuy – begng wh closg down all sex bs (bathho) that facilate homosexual perversn?

GAY BATHHO

In 2004, Christian activist Jam Hartle, on an ternatnal broadst of the 700 Club, took reporters on a tour right up to the ont doors of the former San Diego homosexual bathhoe, the hop that more cizens would be volved shuttg s ont doors (the 700 Club vio is available on the webse)[1][4]. In 2007, Peter LaBarbera reported on Fort Lrdale Mayor Ngle exprsg public health ncerns about homosexual bathho and he asked Florida tourism officials to stop promotg gay bathho. Individual gays the enclav were often volved their rpective neighborhood associatns and ntributed mightily and athetilly to neighborhood projects.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Wh most beg the closet, lol gay people equented bars and diss to meet iends, make hook ups (nsentg partners lled “tricks”) and bask an environment wh others who were like them.

GAY COMMUNITY 1970S

Gay bars Cleveland appealed to specific terts and ranged om diss to cise bars, leather bars, piano bars, Ain-Amerin bars and lbian bars.

FLEX, THE LA GAY BATHHOE, HAS RE-OPENED

While some bars ed this tactic to keep straight people om enterg, also rulted some clubs banng women (cludg lbians) and gay Ain-Amerins.

GAY USA

For example 1975, members of the Cleveland Gay Polil Unn picketed the 620 Club on Frankfort Avenue, a male-only cise bar, for not admtg women. The Rap Group met every Friday eveng space donated by the Free Clic, where gays uld meet to discs any topics raised by dividual atten.

The area around the Richard Wagner statue on the upper level of Edgewater Park was a popular daily gatherg place for gay sunbathers, often more popular than the beach self. HEALTH ISSUES While Cleveland gays the 1970s did not have to al wh the later horrors of HIV and AIDS, there were still signifint health ncerns.

Input om both the Cleveland Divisn of Health and the Cleveland Free Clic helped te lol gays about the symptoms of venereal diseas, where to get nfintial help, what to do to prevent such illns, cludg ndom e, and what to look for potential sex partners. Gay Pri March, Celebratns, and Paras The first Gay Pri March Cleveland occurred July 1972 and was sponsored by the Gay Activists Alliance. The para origated at the Change, a gay bar at the rner of Prospect and East 14th Street, and journeyed to Public Square along Euclid Avenue.

GAYT PLAC IN OH FOR 2020

While there were var protts and other actns taken by advot om 1972 to 1976, the third Gay Pri March/Celebratn didn’t occur until July 1976 when wh mimal publicy Dan Richmond, newly appoted worship ordator of the Cleveland Metropolan Communy Church, held a march om Gypsy’s Rtrant at 2418 through downtown Cleveland to Wt 6th Street. The first occurred on June 25, 1977 and was ultimately sponsored by the Cleveland Gay Polil Unn and the Gay Cc (GCPU) of the Youth Agast War and Facism (YAWF).

GAY CLEVELAND

CGPU and the gay uc of YAWF stepped up to see the March through, even though the 225 people who attend had to march on cy siwalks down Euclid Avenue. Polil Organizatns and Activi Unlike other US stat and ci, the polil environment toward gays and lbians Oh and Cleveland was not overtly hostile the 1970s.

A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO

The four primary gay polil groups the Cleveland area the 1970s were the Cleveland Chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance, the Cleveland Gay Polil Unn, the Kent Gay Liberatn Front, and the Gay Cc of Youth Agast War and Fascism. Cleveland Chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance The Cleveland Chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was the earlit, tablished gay polil anizatn Cleveland.

NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO

Chaired by Anne-Weld-Harrgton, the group met at CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY and anized the first ever Cleveland Gay Pri March 1972. Cleveland Gay Polil Unn The Gay Liberatn stunt group at Cleveland State Universy was revived 1974 by tablishment of the GEAR stunt uc.

When this group spun off to bee a service anizatn that clud High Gear, the Gay Hotle, and early piec of the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland, the Gay Feratn, which later beme the Cleveland Gay Polil Unn (CGPU), was formed. Early on, GEAR anizers knew that orr to tablish a Gay Communy Center they would first need to bee an rporated non-prof anizatn Oh and then, secure feral tax-exempt stat om the IRS. Sce there were strict l about not engagg polil activy, GEAR sisted on a separate polil anizatn, hence the creatn of the Cleveland Gay Feratn, which transformed self to CGPU.

CGPU’s primary goal was to act as a force to enact gay civil rights legislatn the immediate muni of Cuyahoga County and to anize polil actn, when need.