Gay Plac wh Dr. Jeff – 140 North Street – Prervatn Buffalo Niagara

Contents:

• GAY PLAC WH DR. JEFF – 330 FRANKL STREET
• GAY PLAC WH DR. JEFF – 140 NORTH STREET
• GAY PLAC WH DR. JEFF – 69 JOHNSON PARK
• GAY JEFEY V DR BSC MBBS
• DR. JEFF GARRE APOLOGIZ FOR GAY CHILD A PARENT'S 'WORST NIGHTMARE' COMMENT

GAY PLAC WH DR. JEFF – 330 FRANKL STREET

Wele to Gay Plac wh Dr. Garrow, who was origally om Tampa, Florida, and his bs played a foundatnal role the begngs of a movement for gay and lbian civil rights Buffalo.

The Tiki opened at a time Buffalo’s history when gay bars were routely targeted by the Buffalo Police Department Bure of Vice Enforcement (BVE), and few existed for an extend perd of time.

The closure of gay bars accelerated when Kenh P. A vout Irish Catholic who saw homosexualy as both crimal and amoral, Kennedy ed the thory of his posn to target tablishments associated wh the gay muny.

GAY PLAC WH DR. JEFF – 140 NORTH STREET

The Tiki, however, was not a bar —Garrow was, fact, unable to obta a liquor license due to prr crimal nvictns, some related to homosexualy. Before the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969, homosexualy was crimalized most stat addn to beg regard as sful and a mental illns.

The Tiki, spe not servg alhol, beme a popular space for gays the late 1960s. Then his late 40s, he was a big, burly man wh an affable and gregar meanor that attracted gay Buffalonians to his tablishment. The pair met durg the summer of 1969 at a gatherg at the hoe of a mutual gay iend on a Sunday afternoon.

DeLarvarie was later creded as one of the first to rist police durg the Stonewall Uprisg and spired a new generatn of young, rebell queers to fight for gay liberatn.

GAY PLAC WH DR. JEFF – 69 JOHNSON PARK

Bars terg to Buffalonian lbians and gays seemed to vanish as soon as they appeared. Unr State Liquor Authory regulatns, the mere prence of gays people a bar nstuted that premise as “disorrly” and therefore vlatn. The bar “went gay” around the late 1960s, as the Pzkas sought to palize on the lack of social spac for gay Buffalonians.

Given the lack of plac to mgle wh Buffalo proper, many gays also ventured to Niagara Falls.

” Nfa’s was not an exclively gay tablishment, but was, the words of Feberg, “gay by percentage. ” Gay patrons jokgly lled the bar “Nympha’s, ” a sexualized reference to the term “nymphomaniac. Dpe the lack of bars to socialize and drk , Buffalo’s gay muny ma do.

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Yet, Garrow’s goal was to obta a liquor license for his tablishment and to create a muny space-of-sorts for gay people. Garrow’s tentns were not to revive The Avenue and make gay. There was no reason, therefore, he uldn’t open the ground floor as a private club for gays and lbians who wanted a place to socialize and cut loose, even if he charged a ver or ma them pay for ffee or drks.

That was the thg wh our gay bars Buffalo: if you ma too much noise the neighbors would pla and then the ps would give you a hard time.

Garrow, regnizg more drastic measur were necsary, brought noted homophile activist Frank Kameny—whom he read about Time magaze—to help anize the gay muny.

DR. JEFF GARRE APOLOGIZ FOR GAY CHILD A PARENT'S 'WORST NIGHTMARE' COMMENT

His reer railed, Kameny was radilized and beme sgularly dited to the e of gay rights. In 1961, along wh fellow gay activist Jack Nichols, he found the Mattache Society of Washgton, D. Mattache was a pre-Stonewall gay rights anizatn, found Los Angel 1950.

He anized the first protts agast the feral ernment for gay rights, cludg a picket of the Whe Hoe on April 17th of 1965 and an annual picket at Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall. Kameny adopted a more ant theory and practice of gay rights than many of his ntemporari durg the early years of the movement.

He was therefore a natural f to help Buffalo’s gay and lbian muny rise to the challenge of nontg the BVE. “Get together, wre up a Constutn, put the Constutn a drawer, and go out and work for gay rights!, ” Kameny told those gathered at 70 Delaware on a ld December eveng 1969 his distctive nasal monotone.