Newark, New Jersey Gay Bars Lbian Clubs - Maps, Lks, Drivg Directns
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NEW JERSEY LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
Kney Club, where "exotic dancer" Ree LaRue performed such shows as Gay Paree. Newark not beg a noted gay center. Four Leaf Deli and Bar: wr Archbishop Carl Bean, Prelate-Uny Fellowship Church Movement and sger of the 1977 dis h "I Was Born This Way": "My history Newark as an Alex Bradford Sger and openly gay man is: Alex hung out neighborhood bars and therefore so did we.
There was a very fortable mixg of gay and straight Jersey folk. As I remember there was a few rather small Black Gay Bars pre-dis but I don't rell their nam.
Jackson's Lounge on Howard Street: "may be the largt gatherg place for lbians and homosexuals any cy of Newark's size … Every time s doors opened, mic and lghter spilled out, " wr journalist Ron Porambo 1971, who go on, homophobic language: "A bulldagger… and a fag began yellg at one another ont of the bar. They began fightg faggot-style, nng up and down the siwalk and around the parked rs … while the crowd of lbians and homosexuals blond wigs shouted enuragement to the fighters. Waldorf Cafeteria: downtown hub for whe gays early 60s, seen Dan Rso's memoir Downtown, which se Newark as a "thrivg, smopolan cy, " wh nstant police harassment--"a band of SS officers.