Bold and Betiful: The Life Cycle of a Seahorse - Sarah Lyn Gay

Contents:

• GLORIA FRANKEL & THE SEAHORSE: THE SOUTH BEND LGBT CLUB’S FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• ARE SEA HORSE GAY
• GAY SEAHORS AND RABOW FLAG BACKGROUND

GLORIA FRANKEL & THE SEAHORSE: THE SOUTH BEND LGBT CLUB’S FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

Teenage Ors have guys-only gay gangs. A study dit that the sea creatur are promiscuo, flighty and more than a ltle b gay — none more so than the Atralian seahorse.

ARE SEA HORSE GAY

Our team is a member of USA Water Polo as well as IGLA, the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Aquatics anizatn.

In 2015, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend announced a South Bend Tribune op-ed that he was gay, makg him Indiana’s first openly gay mayor. In 1974, Gloria Frankel and her gay club, The Seahorse Cabaret, whstood police harassment, challenged regulatns agast LGBT dividuals, and endured a firebombg. In this post, we explore the fight for gay rights the Michiana area and the trepid woman who lead the charge.

GAY SEAHORS AND RABOW FLAG BACKGROUND

Acrdg to Ben Weland’s “Then and Now: The Origs and Development of the Gay Communy South Bend, ” Frankel opened South Bend’s first gay club the early 1970s. The rts immediately forward the gay liberatn movement and the fight for LGBT rights Ameri. LGBT dividuals smaller ci palized on the momentum by openg bars that fostered gay muni and provid them wh a relatively safe space for entertament, dialogue, and activism.

‘Cse was a gay bar'” (Weland, 74). In 2005, Frankel relled “I always wanted to open a bar where gay people openly socialized wh each other.