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Contents:
- WILTON MANORS: SOUTH FLORIDA’S MOST FAMO GAYBORHOOD
- WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
- MANCHTER GAY MENS LUNCHEON CLUB
WILTON MANORS: SOUTH FLORIDA’S MOST FAMO GAYBORHOOD
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Wilton Manors, South Florida’s famo gayborhood, b a small-town atmosphere wh all the ameni of urban life. Wilton Manors gayborhood Florida has a lot to offer: walkabily, waterways, and wildlife – as the kd that liv the wild, and the kd that is wild.
It’s also “the epicenter of the gay muny South Florida, ” says rint Jason Gonzalez. Acrdg to the 2010 Cens, Wilton Manors is the untry’s “Send Gayt Cy” – at least terms of upl.
WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
Wele to the most famo LGBT Epicenter the state. Wilton Manors is a well known gayborhood that b a small-town atmosphere wh all the ameni of urban life. * gay supper club *
It began about the time DeRosa first moved there, about the time Geie’s Alibi, the first major gay bar, opened a board-up bank branch up the block om where To The Moon now stands. More Gay and Lbian tablishments followed. There’s The Pk Submare, Gaysha New World Shi Bar, and Out of the Closet, a nonprof, send-hand goods shop beneftg medil re for patients wh HIV/AIDS.
The acceptg ambience has led South Florida Gay News to name Wilton Manors “Bt Cy”– twice.
“South Florida’s most famo gayborhood b a small-town atmosphere wh all the ameni of urban life, ” wrote the send time, 2013. “It’s difficult to go anywhere Wilton Manors and not assume everyone is gay. I kd of have to check myself every once a while and say, ‘Qu assumg everyone is gay, Jason, ’” says Gonzalez.
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When The Woodward, Detro's olst-nng gay bar, burned a massive fire last week, spurred a nversatn about the history of the bar self and how to remember and celebrate s signifince the gay muny while lookg toward the future. * gay supper club *
“There are plac that gays don’t feel fortable, ” says Rick Wootten, a clerk at Out of the Closet.
But there’s more to Wilton Manors gayborhood Florida than food and shops. When The Woodward, Detro's olst-nng gay bar, burned a massive fire last week, spurred a nversatn about the history of the bar self, but also where was suated Detro gay history more broadly — and how to remember and celebrate s signifince the gay muny while lookg toward the future. The fire happened the middle of Pri Month, and not jt any Pri Month Detro: This year marks 50 years sce the cy's first Pri march, held June 24, 1972 to mand "full civil rights for gay people" and a repeal of all anti-gay laws, the Free Prs reported back then.
The march, officially lled Christopher Street '72, was self a remembrance of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street New York Cy on June 28, 1969, when protts broke out rponse to a police raid at a gay bar. In s 70-odd years, The Woodward has been part of many tersectg stori of gay life and culture Detro, cludg policg of gay spac, ownership shifts, racial segregatn and populatn trends the cy.