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

Contents:

• NEWS OF THE COLUMB GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY
• GAY COMMUNITY
• GAY
• PRS PASS Q
• LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND
• GAY OH
• NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY

NEWS OF THE COLUMB GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY

Belda Carlisle is headlg Cleveland Pri this year, and the former Go-Gos sger is the proud mother of an out gay son. Also clud this issue is a personal acunt of another gay son reflectg on his relatnship wh his father, followg his father? Over the years here Oh, we have weathered everythg om antigay legislatn, to signifintly ls-than-supportive muni/fai, to the vastatn of HIV/AIDS, to severe enomic downturns.

Captured the k are the voic and stori of lbians who were not given their proper due other gay media, even as Dah provid a platform to brg the muny closer together both on and off the page. The publitn featured a mix of lol and natnal news, verage of Cleveland and surroundg area events, advertisg for gay bs, and que a few vers featurg origal works of art. Lnchg the late 1970s, News of the Columb Gay and Lbian Communy is wily regard as one of Oh’s olst gay and lbian publitns.

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Dpe s name, the newspaper (which had more the appearance of a really thick newsletter on newsprt) featured news both lol and natnal, alongsi personals ads, movie reviews, and the regular prtg of the standgs the gay bowlg league.

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Unr the tagle of “Servg Gays, Lbians and Friends, ” the newspaper prented a wi swath of ntent: natnal LGBTQ+ news (ually on the ont page), updat om var LGBTQ+ anizatns Ccnati, photos om events, and a “Health Comments by Dr. Gay People’s Chronicle beme Cleveland’s send major publitn for the LGBTQ+ muny when was lnched 1985 by Charl Callenr, a profsor of anthropology at Case Wtern Rerve Universy. From their first issue, “This day marks another kd of guratn as well, that of a lol, gay news publitn…The purpos of The GayBeat are the: to report the news; to te the readg public about the issu which impact our muny; and to help foster a llective, polil agenda for the lbian and gay male muny of greater Ccnati.

” Over s 10 years prt, Gaybeat took many forms, om photopied typed sheets to a newsletter appearance to more tradnal newsprt.

The ont ver did not acknowledge s lnch, stead tailg a story about the phone book allowg the words “gay and lbian” an ad, alongsi a story of a Ccnati man who was fired om his job after was reported that he was tted for AIDS.

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The word self means ‘new’; but this magaze offers and gay and lbian muny somethg has long valued: lol news.

LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND

After both Outl and Gay People’s Chronicle had closed up shop, Spotlight was lnched to fill the void of accsg LGBTQ+ ntent Northeast Oh. ” Although only lasted om January 2014 to Augt later that same year, Spotlight played a pivotal role dissematg rmatn and entertag the mass who had assembled for Gay Gam 9 om all over the world.

(Our thanks to the followg who helped put this list together: Phebe Beiser, Jeff Bixby, Michael Chanak, Brian DeWt, Gay Oh History Iniative (GOHI), Staley Jophiel Munroe, Oh History Connectn, Oh Lbian Archiv, Bob Vale, and Wtern Rerve Historil Society.

To the extent that a muny is fed by s anizatns and stutns, Cleveland's gay muny probably dat om the foundg of a lol Mattache Society group the 1960s. Mattache was the progenor of prent-day gay anizatns and a sense prepared the way for what would bee the gay rights movement after the Stonewall Rt June 1969, which a group of homosexuals fend themselv agast a police raid on a bar Greenwich Village, New York Cy.

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Stonewall was one of the first large public events mandg equal rights and protectns for homosexuals and and transgenr dividuals, wh other notable monstratns agast police harassment occurrg at Cooper Do-nut Los Angel 1959 and at Compton’s Cafeteria San Francis 1966. The movements for civil rights for blacks, women, and other groups, and the tone of liberal thought the late 1960s and early 1970s set motn a wave of activism that saw the formatn of groups and servic specifilly geared to gay men and lbians as a muny of terts. Much of the emphasis of the GEAR Foundatn was on advocy and service, sce harassment and discrimatn were not overt, and sce operatn wh the gay muny was seen as a prerequise for effective work beyond.

The GEAR Foundatn's most visible work was s muny center, which 1986 was renamed the LESBIAN/GAY COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND, loted on Detro Avenue the Gordon Square neighborhood.. The gay muny, hard h by the advent of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) the early 1980s, rpond swiftly by formg the Health Issu Task Force 1982. The newspaper High Gear was started by the GEAR Foundatn 1975 and was the first attempt the cy to produce a publitn exclively for the gay muny.

Prted tabloid form and distributed ee, rried lol and natnal news, featur and edorials, and advertisg for gay bs. In 1984 a new newspaper, the Gay People's Chronicle, began publitn wh Charl Callenr, a profsor at Case Wtern Rerve Univ., as edor and publisher. In the early 1970s a group lled the Communy of Celebratn flourished for a time; was succeed by a chapter of the natnal anizatn for gay Catholics, Digny.

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

A lol ngregatn of the Metropolan Communy Church, a natnal nomatn of primarily gay membership, existed for a time .