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Contents:

• CLEVELAND’S GAY LOUNGE BAR & PAT
• GAY BARS IN CLEVELAND
• MOVG TO LGBTQ CLEVELAND, OH? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• CLEVELAND'S GAY BARS EVOLVE AGE OF GREATER TOLERANCE
• BT GAY BAR CLEVELAND - COCKTAILS CLEVELAND
• THE BEST CLEVELAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CLEVELAND
• GAYT PLAC IN OH FOR 2020
• STANDG STRONG: CLEVELAND’S GAY BARS SURVIVE THE PANMIC, TCH A SEND WD
• CLEVELAND GAY BARS
• THE DOWNTOWNER - EPISO 11: WHERE ARE CLEVELAND'S GAYS?

CLEVELAND’S GAY LOUNGE BAR & PAT

GRAUER, a bar lled Ltle Ted’s, which was suated unr a rtrant of the same name near the CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY, as well as a bar lled Mac & Jerry’s, which was not exclively gay but was a popular spot for the cy’s dtrial workers. The clu Vibe Bar & Pat on Lora Avenue around Wt 117th Street, Twist on Clifton Boulevard, Cocktails and The Hawk on Detro Avenue, Sha Cleveland’s OLD BROOKLYN neighborhood, and the Leather Stalln, which holds the rerd as Cleveland’s olst operatg gay bar. It is no secret that whe gays flock away drov om tablishments, which bee ‘too black.’ This behavr is fantile and rooted ignorance.” High Gear ntued to prt letters om rears about prejudicial practic, but aga to ltle or no effect.

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Input om both the Cleveland Divisn of Health and the Cleveland Free Clic helped te lol gays about the symptoms of venereal diseas, where to get nfintial help, what to do to prevent such illns, cludg ndom e, and what to look for potential sex partners.

While there were var protts and other actns taken by advot om 1972 to 1976, the third Gay Pri March/Celebratn didn’t occur until July 1976 when wh mimal publicy Dan Richmond, newly appoted worship ordator of the Cleveland Metropolan Communy Church, held a march om Gypsy’s Rtrant at 2418 St.Clair through downtown Cleveland to Wt 6th Street. The four primary gay polil groups the Cleveland area the 1970s were the Cleveland Chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance, the Cleveland Gay Polil Unn, the Kent Gay Liberatn Front, and the Gay Cc of Youth Agast War and Fascism.

When this group spun off to bee a service anizatn that clud High Gear, the Gay Hotle, and early piec of the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland, the Gay Feratn, which later beme the Cleveland Gay Polil Unn (CGPU), was formed. Also, 1975, one early morng, members of CGPU, picketed the offic of the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER to prott their ntued e of the word “homosexual,” li of “gay” and “lbian.” As staff members of the PD arrived at work, picketers gave them pi of High Gear and held signs clarg “We Are Not A Clil Diagnosis.”.

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When the Supreme Court led on March 29, 1976 by a 6 to 3 vote that stat may prosecute and imprison people for mtg nsensual homosexual acts, CGPU sprang to actn, issug a prs release nouncg the actn and mandg equal treatment. On Saturday, May 8, 1976 members of CGPU, KGLF, and the YAWF gay uc monstrated outsi of the Akron Court Hoe to prott Akron police harassment of gays by issug traffic and parkg catns to those g and leavg area gay bars. The Cleveland Prs wrote an edorial supportg gay rights and The Pla Dealer’s Jane Stt did a lengthy seri of articl on “gay liftyl.” WGAR broadst a Stonewall Commemoratn weekend of hourly vigt on issu ncerng gay people.

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Those were different tim, pecially the gay scene."There ed to be a lot more gay bars and gay clubs, but that's a thg of the past," says Ruf as he tends to Do, his jumpy Pomeranian sikick who acpani him at the store.

The creasg acceptance of same-sex marriage and gay culture general is part of a broar g-out party.PREVIEWCleveland Pri 2014What: A gay pri ftival that boasts numero acts, cludg Debbie Gibson.When: Noon to 8 p.m. Clair Avenue and will proceed east on Laki Avenue, then north on East Nth Street to the park.But the sence of Cleveland Pri has changed, om a ll for equal rights and AIDS awarens when started 26 years ago to a celebratn of those rights.This year, also doubl as an early pep rally for the Gay Gam.The ternatnal event hs Cleveland and Northeast Oh Aug. Now, he ns The Dean Ruf Hoe of Fun, an eclectic store on Cleveland's near Wt Si.Ah, but where do that leave Cleveland the rt of the year – or the gay scene, for that matter?"Cleveland don't have a lot of gay bars bee we're so accepted that we n go anywhere," says Smherman.

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But Cleveland's nightlife for years thrived the gay scene – even as the cy experienced a cle, not to mentn a 23.6 percent populatn loss, the 1970s."Downtown was serted and, on the surface, Cleveland was ad back then," says Nora Jon, who managed a Wt Nth Street punk club lled the Lakeont early 1980s.

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"But I would go out every night, to a bunch of different clubs."Jon remembers the gay and unrground rock scen mglg a downtown gay bar lled Twiggy's – back the 1970s, when glam-rock and androgyny were celebrated the rock scene.The same thg occurred wh the punk and gay scen at Traxx, a legendary gay club that was loted on Wt Nth Street, a few feet away om the Lakeont."We existed jt fe, as we were all nsired folks on the ge of society back then," says Jon.That is the big difference between then and now, says Ruf, who ma his breakout as a DJ spng at Traxx."People might talk about the mastreamg of gay culture, but many ways you had a more tegrated crowd at a place like Traxx," adds Ruf, who beme a dance-mic tastemaker on statns such as Jamm' 92 and Power 108. "The gay dance club was the place for the newt club tracks and would attract young and old, black, whe, gay, straight, men and women."The Leather Stalln, a gay stutn Cleveland sce 1970, reflected the other si -- attractg men only.

The emphasis was ls on cisg and more on beg clive."Gay and lbian clubs found a mon purpose: to raise AIDS awarens, and money to help s victims."You had 30 gay and lbian clubs downtown Cleveland back then, and you would have drag queens and bikers workg together," says Molnar. "Everyone was seeg their clost iends wher away and die om AIDS, and brought people together."The big-box dance club brought people together – around mic."The first mglg of gay and straight people really occurred around dis, at Traxx," says DJ Rob Sherwood, whose entry the gay scene took place at the club the early '80s. "But ntued and moved on to clubs such as Ne of Clubs, Aquilon and the Lift."All three clubs transcend sexual orientatn by attractg gay and straight dienc to hear the latt electronic dance mic the '80s and '90s."My ia has always been to brg the gay-bar ncept and sell that to a straight dience," says Sherwood.Sherwood and nightclub drag performer Dick "Htle" Rsell took the ncept to new heights at the begng of the century wh Fellique parti known as "Meat Pie" or "Rock 'n' Roll Fag Bar.""Dick and I wanted to create a eak show that would brg together all typ to create a unique sexual tensn and energy," he says.

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Kev Briggs and his hband John, owners of Vibe Bar & PatGay bars and nightclubs Cleveland and natnally had been closg at high rat for more than a before the panmic, acrdg to rearch by an Oberl College profsor. The number of LGBTQ+ bars and clubs has dwdled om a high-water-mark of over two dozen tablishments servg a wi array of muny nich the 1970s and 1980s, to jt six gay bars, most small tablishments, when the panmic stck.

It’s a safe haven where gay people n mp up and share mararie over cktails wh others who rry srs om beg ma fun of, margalized, rejected by iends and fay, forbidn om donatg blood, cimated by a vis and other classics of gay life.

Let’s not fet the women: Sappho, Queen Christa of Swen, Jane Addams, Ra Mae Brown, Barbara Gtgs, Gladys Bentley, Ey Dickson, Audre Lor, Del Mart, Phyllis Lyon, Patricia Highsmh, Margaret of IntyThis is why I need to explicly see words like “gay” or “lbian, ” whout beg straight-washed for fort or marketabily.

THE DOWNTOWNER - EPISO 11: WHERE ARE CLEVELAND'S GAYS?