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Contents:
- GAY BARS INDIANAPOLIS: A BRIEF HISTORY
- INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY
- INDY'S GAY BARS: HEAD FOR EXTCTN?
- MOVG TO LGBT INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
- GAY CLUBS
- INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS
- 'MY NEIGHBORHOOD GAY BAR ISN'T GOG TO BE THERE': ZONIE'S CLOSET SET TO CLOSE
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GAY BARS INDIANAPOLIS: A BRIEF HISTORY
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"People years ago wouldn't have been fortable wh wdows, " said Steve Warman, 65, who has bartend gay bars Indianapolis sce the 1970s. "Indianapolis' first Gay Pri event, 1981, nsisted of a semi-private dner at the Essex Hotel.
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Michael Bohr is the founr and curator of the Chris Gonzalez Library & Archiv, a sort of gay mm whose ventory clus rare, origal pi of Indianapolis' first gay publitn, a mimeographed monthly om 1966 lled "The Screamer.
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"He said that 1970, the year he stopped ncealg his homosexualy, Indianapolis had more than a dozen gay bars. "There's a lot of history behd where we are now, " said Coby Palmer, 65, a florist and longtime gay civic lear. "We'd quick drop our partner and grab a lbian, " said David McCann, 70, who lived Kokomo but equently socialized often such raids led to nights jail, pecially if the gay patrons didn't have I.
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McCann said that 1964, he was one of some 80 gay men load to 12 paddy wagons and hled to the Marn County Jail. Polilly, gays Indianapolis didn't band together until October 1977, when the rerdg artist/former Miss USA/Florida Cs Commissn spokwoman Ana Bryant led a rally at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. "We rried signs (one said: "Heil Ana Gay-Stop-O") and walked up and down the siwalk the pourg ra -- 800 of , " she said.
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"Ana Bryant was probably the bt thg that happened to the gay muny.
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"At gay bars, orange juice was no longer served bee of Bryant's affiliatn wh the Florida growers.
'MY NEIGHBORHOOD GAY BAR ISN'T GOG TO BE THERE': ZONIE'S CLOSET SET TO CLOSE
"Monument Circle, the early 1980s, was a popular gatherg spot for gays and lbians, and this ma some people unfortable. Complag about the surveillance fell to Stan Berg, who owned a gay bath hoe the 4100 block of North Keystone Avenue.
Berg is nsired Indianapolis' first polil gay man, "the one willg to be the face of the gay muny, " said Berg's prsure, the Indianapolis Police Department hired a liaison to the gay and lbian muny. Hudnut issued a proclamatn clarg was cy policy not to discrimate agast died of AIDS Déjà vu, an old, narrow buildg on ground now occupied by the Indianapolis Zoo, is believed to have been the first Indianapolis gay bar to employ a ejay.
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