The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center

Contents:

• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• ‘I GOT AN UMBRELLA AND AMBN’: INDICTMENT REVEALS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BEHD GAY BAR DEATHS
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART
• GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE
• TOP 5 GAY BARS NYC'S EAST VILLAGE
• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
• DID NAMBLA MARCH GAY PRI PARAS THE 70S AND 80S?

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

Muny is on edge after the before the Colorado mass shootg, a gay bar Manhattan was targeted for the fourth time this month when someone threw a brick at s Moon for The New York TimNov.

21, 2022On Saturday, revelry at a gay bar Manhattan was terpted for the fourth time this month by someone throwg a brick at s plate-glass wdows at the bar, VERS, are shatterproof, so the attacks have not jured anyone, said s owner, David DeParola. The adly mass shootg has shaken gay muni across the sense of unease has been acutely felt New York, one of the untry’s gay cultural centers and the se of the 1969 Stonewall Inn uprisg, which is wily viewed as the birth of the morn gay rights York’s L.

Muny, like gay muni elsewhere, has been eply troubled by verbal attacks recent years on drag events, om club nights to children’s drag queen story hours at librari. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt first, the men’s aths were treated as overdos, until tens of thoands of dollars were found draed om their bank Umberger was seen leavg the Q nightclub Manhattan, his mother Moon for The New York TimJul Ramirez died the back seat of a taxi April after he left a popular gay bar Manhattan wh a group of men. They stole his wallet, phone and ID before they abandoned his body the r wh a distrsed month later, John Umberger was found ad an Upper East Si townhoe after he and a group of men left another popular gay bar jt three blocks om the last place Mr.

‘I GOT AN UMBRELLA AND AMBN’: INDICTMENT REVEALS ALLEGED CONSPIRACY BEHD GAY BAR DEATHS

Muny at first regard the aths as isolated dg overdos: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedi a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the ronavis panmic has the men’s fai soon disvered somethg more sister: Cred rds the men’s nam were maxed out and their bank acunts draed of tens of thoands of dollars. Muny, which emerged om the panmic to the jaws of a monkeypox outbreak, a landspe of stgglg and sometim shuttered bars and an creasgly hostile natnal polil have also spread fear and mor, while startg a broar nversatn about siar attacks that have quietly plagued the cy’s gay nightlife for years. Umberger were targeted bee they were gay, and they have not said if they believe the men’s aths and other nonfatal attacks are men who said they were dgged have stggled to nvce the police they were the victims of a crime and not jt irrponsible partygoers who took someone home and blacked Alarn, 33, said he was dgged at the Rz March 2020.

Umberger, The Tim has spoken to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy — cludg the Eagle, the Boiler Room and the 9th Avenue Saloon — and then robbed. It is also ed recreatnally by some the gay Burt, 27, was robbed of more than $25, 000 after he was dgged at the Boiler Room the East Village last December. ImageCouncilman Erik Bottcher reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Moon for The New York TimGay bars hold a special place L.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Councilman Erik Bottcher — who reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Village — lled “a goln age of nightlife.

People of “groomg” children, a homophobic trope that nflat homosexualy wh pedophilia. Bar Colorado addn, many gay bars are or near Midtown Manhattan, which has been transformed by panmic-era enomic llapse and acts of high-profile street crime.

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dgggs, Deaths and Robberi Put Cy’s Gay Communy on Edge. ‘I Got an Umbrella and Ambn’: Indictment Reveals Alleged Conspiracy Behd Gay Bar Deaths.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

A seri of dgggs and robberi — cludg two fatal overdos — outsi bars 2022 left New York's gay muny on edge.

In the sprg of 2022, two men were dgged and robbed after leavg gay bars New York. On April 21, 2022, some of the fendants approached Jul Ramirez outsi of the Rz Bar, the dictment stated, a gay bar Midtown Manhattan. Umberger was leavg the Q NYC, a gay nightclub two blocks and one avenue away om the Rz Bar.

LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART

The dictments e after police have said they were vtigatg siar crim at bars, where they said gay people and straight people have both been victimized, acrdg to the New York Tim. In January 2016, the Commissn and The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center lnched a shared effort to te New Yorkers about the history and rights of the transgenr muny. Intake/terrogatn roomControl center wh: full light & lor ntrol mera monorg for each cell and areasWarn's skWarn's necsati to rtra/ntrol prisonersInterrogatn chairMug shot/fgerprt areaLockers to store personal emsMetal rtrats gear wallGallery wh origal gay art by zack cell blockShower/examatn area, wh water hoseRimmg chair2 cells wh prison toilets and skMaximum secury solary cell (double door)Padd and soundproofed cellWall & ground attachment pots throughoutDungeon space*Entry area wh gear lockers and gear wallDungeon bed by wh tegrated St.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE

Country mic star Tyler Chilrs and openly gay poet and novelist Silas Hoe llaborated on a new vio for Chilrs' sgle 'In Your Love' that reviss... This storeont at 99 Wooster Street was once the headquarters of the Gay Activist Alliance. Its annual Gay Pri Sunday service is one of the church's biggt events of the year, and an timated third of s ngregatn reprents the LGBTQ muny.

Loted right across om Stonewall Inn ss the monument lled Gay Liberatn, signed by Gee Segal. The Parks Department says, "the rult is specific, evotive, and unrstated, showg the public fort and eedom to which the gay liberatn movement aspired.

TOP 5 GAY BARS NYC'S EAST VILLAGE

Protts followg a police raid here June 1969 are seen by many as the begng of the gay rights movement the Uned Stat. In 1966, members of the Mattache Society anized a prott at the bar agast an existg liquor law that prohibed the sale of alhol to disorrly groups, which (explibly) clud gay people.

That prott eventually led to the overturng of those laws, and is subsequently seen as a landmark moment towards tablishg other gay bars across the cy. The Mattache Society was one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the Uned Stat, probably only send to Chigo's Society for Human Rights. The group foced on promotg gay rights through tn and peaceful means the subsequent years, but adopted more aggrsive tactics after the Stonewall rts.

THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS

His semal book, Gvanni’s Room, generated a lot of ntroversy at the time of s publitn 1956 for s pictn of homosexualy and terracial relatnships. Strayhorn was openly gay and was an active participant the civil rights issu of the time. Rivera was attacked for beg gay on July 2, 1990 the schoolyard of P.

One of the pneers of the gay rights movement the Uned Stat, Frank Kameny grew up this hoe Richmond, Queens, and graduated om the Richmond Hill High School 1941.

The Archiv grew out of the Stonewall Rts and subsequently out of the Gay Amic Unn, when several women the group felt wasn't properly addrsg issu of sexism wh the gay muny. Des before the 1969 Stonewall rts New York Cy, lbians and gay men were livg eely and openly a place lled Cherry Grove. The seasi rort on Fire Island, about 60 east of Manhattan, was known as far back as the late 1940s as a sanctuary where gay wrers, actors and bspeople om the cy and beyond ped to relax, hold hands and show affectn public.

THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

The theater was ced for beg the olst ntuoly operatg gay and lbian theater the Uned Stat. "To now be appld and to be allowed to marry and to be regnized by the ernment for beg a gay theater for so many years is jt thrillg.

DID NAMBLA MARCH GAY PRI PARAS THE 70S AND 80S?

Cherry Grove and the nearby P neighborhood are the predomantly gay muni on Fire Island, although the P veloped s reputatn as a haven s after Cherry Grove. "By the nature of s isolatn and bety, beme a safe haven for gay people, where they uld not be aaid of repercsns om work, or anger om their fai about beg gay, " said Thom "Panzi" Hansen, print of the Cherry Grove Arts Project. The event memorat the advanc of gays, lbians and transgenr people the ensug s.

Rints sought landmark stat for the Communy Hoe and Theater to jump-start tert fundg a renovatn of the 151-seat barn-like is only the third gay-rights landmark to get the feral signatn, jog the Stonewall, where gays clashed wh the New York Police Department for three days 1969 over harassment, leadg to the morn gay rights movement, and the Washgton, D. Kameny, who beme a gay rights activist after he was fired om his job wh the Army Map Service 1957 for refg to answer qutns about his sexual walls of the theater's basement drsg room feature tographs of many of the performers who lled the stage their temporary home.

"Gay visors would - and still do - tch a Long Island Rail Road tra Manhattan for the 75-mute trip to Sayville and slowly beg to they got on a ferry for a 20-mute ri across Great South Bay to Cherry Grove, "personali changed. Other gay enclav were begng to ga populary such plac as Provcetown, Mass., San Francis and Key Wt, Fla., but Cherry Grove "was whout qutn the leadg place that was predomantly gay, " he acceptance of gays and lbians evolvg to the pot where the Supreme Court has granted feral benefs to gay upl who are legally married, Romano and others say Cherry Grove - where visors are greeted by oversize Amerin and gay liberatn flags flutterg the wd - is more than ever seen as a fortable place for gays and straights to vis for the day, a weekend or all summer long. "Troy Fil, who has been g to Cherry Grove for about seven years, said people will always be attracted to what he lled "a gay and lbian Mayberry RFD.