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• FOR PRI MONTH AND BEYOND, HERE ARE 10 SENTIAL GAY BARS PHOENIX AND STTSDALE
• 10 BT GAY BARS PHOENIX
• 10 BT GAY BARS METRO PHOENIX
• GAY EATS: 9 LGBTQ RTRANTS SERVG UP DELECTABLE CULARY DELIGHTS PHOENIX, ARIZONA
• WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA
•  ARIZONA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• PHOENIX GAY DANCE CLUBS

FOR PRI MONTH AND BEYOND, HERE ARE 10 SENTIAL GAY BARS PHOENIX AND STTSDALE

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10 BT GAY BARS PHOENIX

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10 BT GAY BARS METRO PHOENIX

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GAY EATS: 9 LGBTQ RTRANTS SERVG UP DELECTABLE CULARY DELIGHTS PHOENIX, ARIZONA

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On June 28, 1969, officers and tectiv om the New York Police Department raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village.

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WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA

Marshall Shore, “Arizona’s Hip Historian” and project manager for the Arizona LGBT+ History Project: Pre-Stonewall, Phoenix was very different for gays and lbians. It was one of those bsmen lunch plac, but then, at night, beme a gay bar. There was also Capta’s Table, which was a gay bar on Seventh Street [and Missouri Avenue], but that would’ve been like the hterlands of Phoenix at that pot.

 ARIZONA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

It was a good place to meet people, a neighborhood bar that people knew was a gay bar.

Moody: Capta’s Table was like a much smaller crowd, and, basilly, the neighborhood had a lot of gay people at that time.

PHOENIX GAY DANCE CLUBS

Larry Van r Beek La Noue: What was like beg a gay man the ’60s? Daddy Ron), manager of Nu-Towne Saloon: In 1968, I was 17-18, so I uldn’t really be a part of the gay bars, so I end up the ltle place lled Act III for unrage kids. It was jt a gay, no-alhol club for young men that uldn’t go to the bars.

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