Gay Eats 9 LGBTQ Rtrants Phoenix You Have to Vis

Contents:

• WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA
• GAY EATS: 9 LGBTQ RTRANTS SERVG UP DELECTABLE CULARY DELIGHTS PHOENIX, ARIZONA
• NUTOWNE SALOONOPEN SCE 1971THE VALLEY'S OLST GAY BAR. OPEN DAILY 12PM-2AM
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THIS PHOENIX SPOT IS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE US — EVEN THOUGH 'S NOT A GAY BAR

WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA

The one thg all the spots on this list have mon: They ve ctomers to e as they are.There's somethg for everyone at the 10 sential metro Phoenix gay bars. 602-248-8559, .'It's about feelg weled':How gay youth fd belongg Phoenix's ballroom sceneAnvilAnvil, a bar loted on Thomas Road east of 24th Street, dubs self a "Leather and Levi" bar and wel those who want to don their gear and those who don't, jt the same. 602-264-5307, .Nu Towne SaloonKnown as the olst gay bar metro Phoenix, Nu Towne Saloon fds s home across the street om the stacked layers of the Tovrea Castle.

.Boytt BarMidtown Phoenix neighborhood the Melrose District may be packed wh gay bars, but they don't all ter to the dus. On June 28, 1969, officers and tectiv om the New York Police Department raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village.

The turmoil me after years of police harassment of LGBTQ bars and an anti-gay legal system rife wh homophobia. In the early- to mid-’60s, you uld pretty much unt the total number of lol gay and lbian spots on one hand.

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

Long before there was Phoenix Pri, a Melrose district, or anyone g the phrase “gayborhood, ” the Valley’s LGBTQ bar landspe was virtually nonexistent.

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.

NUTOWNE SALOONOPEN SCE 1971THE VALLEY'S OLST GAY BAR. OPEN DAILY 12PM-2AM

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. 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. Larry Van r Beek La Noue: What was like beg a gay man the ’60s?

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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.

I was sexually sure I was gay; I jt wasn’t sure about beg that way public. I found one article om back ’56 talkg about how there was a hoe party where they arrted all the men intifyg as [homosexual], and gave the number of atten and broke down which rac they all were. I don’t rell exactly what I was charged wh, lewd behavr, probably, which they ed a lot that perd wh gay people.

And you wouldn’t have even known was gay-related, except the mayor mentned how was somethg you would fd Pershg Square L. But gays, lbians, trans, and people of lor had grown tired of and were fed up.

THIS PHOENIX SPOT IS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE US — EVEN THOUGH 'S NOT A GAY BAR

The gay prs vered , and I read about ONE Magaze, which was a publitn by the Mattache Society that I subscribed to back then. Ron Wilx: I never learned about Stonewall until to the ’70s, bee when was gog on 1969, there really was no real gay news [outlets]. The gay publitns brought up the ire and foced on and did more than one story on , of urse.