Loted at 159 Wt 10th Street, Juli' is one of NYC's olst gay bars, and may fally be gettg the regnn serv!
Contents:
- ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK
- LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART
- UNANIMO VOTE WILL LANDMARK ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, JULI’
- THE 15 BT GAY BARS NYC TO CHECK OUT
ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK
The spac, whether always gay iendly or only durg certa tim of the day or week, gave LGBT people the eedom to be themselv a way they ually uld not be their personal or profsnal liv. New York's Lost Gay BarsWe've known for many years that too many of our cherished gay bars and clubs are shutterg, fallg victim to risg rents and the ubiquy of apps like Grdr and Scff.
LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART
There's a walkg tour New York to memorate beloved gay bars and clubs that have closed down.
The cy lled the bar “one of the cy’s most signifint s of LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer) history” the news release. Juli’ was the se of the 1966 “Sip-, ” a prott agast homophobic discrimatn – although at the time, the bar wasn’t an explicly LGBT space.
Four men named Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, John Timmons, and Randy Wicker staged the event to prott the persecutn of gay men for drkg public, acrdg to the Natnal Park Service.
UNANIMO VOTE WILL LANDMARK ONE OF NYC’S OLST GAY BARS, JULI’
So bars often refed to serve clients who they knew were gay. At Juli’, the men announced they were gay – and the bartenr refed to serve them, sayg was illegal.
“Gays uld legally drk a bar. And today, openly scrib self as a gay bar on s social media. “As a gay man who enjoys untls eedoms that were unimagable their time, I owe enormo bt to the activists who ma Juli’ Bar the se of their prott.
THE 15 BT GAY BARS NYC TO CHECK OUT
The bar is the se where three activists staged a simple act of prott 1966: openly announcg they were gay, then orrg a drk. They lled a “sip-, ” and the three men, members of the Mattache Society, an early gay-rights group, were hopg to challenge the New York State Liquor Authory’s ban on servg LGBTQ patrons.