Harry's Bar: Chapel Hill's mored gay bar, 1960s, Michael Culpepper · UNC Librari

Contents:

•  NORTH CAROLA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• LGBTQ DURHAM, NC: GAY CY GUI AND GAYBORHOODS
• INIC BUT ELIVE GAY REFUG CHAPEL HILL AND DURHAM: PONROSA AND THE TEMPO ROOM
• HARRY'S BAR: CHAPEL HILL'S MORED GAY BAR, 1960S, MICHAEL CULPEPPER
• THE ELECTRIC COMPANY: CHAPEL HILL'S GAY BAR, 1960S, KENT PARKS
• GAY CHAPEL HILL TRAVEL GUI
• GAY NORTH CAROLA TRAVEL GUI
• BT GAY BARS DURHAM, NORTH CAROLA

 NORTH CAROLA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

“This area is home to Jam Beard Award-wng rtrants; the Universy of North Carola Chapel Hill--the olst public universy the Uned Stat and a place where gays and lbians are right at home wh everyone else. In fact, Orange County is currently home to half of the state's gay and lbian elected officials, a trend that started 1987, when Chapel Hill Town Council Member Joe Herzenberg beme North Carola's first openly gay elected official.

LGBTQ DURHAM, NC: GAY CY GUI AND GAYBORHOODS

“I travel all over the untry and gays and lbians are ‘tolerated’ more and more jt about everywhere, which is great.

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INIC BUT ELIVE GAY REFUG CHAPEL HILL AND DURHAM: PONROSA AND THE TEMPO ROOM

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HARRY'S BAR: CHAPEL HILL'S MORED GAY BAR, 1960S, MICHAEL CULPEPPER

The missn of Pri Durham is to promote and engage tnal, civic and cultural activi wh the goal of enrichg the liv of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people and the muny as a whole. Some larger ci tend to have one area that is often known as the "gayborhood" – the most popular place the cy for the LGBTQ muny to live. Durham don't have one specific "gayborhood" – but that don't mean that there aren't plenty of great neighborhoods to live .

Contact a Durham gay realtor today for a ee, no-obligatn nsultatn! Every cy needs a slightly dgy basement gay bar, and Raleigh has Flex. It was actually Durham County, the Tempo was the gay bar, and bee was Chapel Hill, was fe.

THE ELECTRIC COMPANY: CHAPEL HILL'S GAY BAR, 1960S, KENT PARKS

There was a ltle like kd of drive grill, that is what was, not a hot dog stand, but like a der and the back of that was a big, ncrete, rectangle buildg like a VFW Hut and turned to a gay bar. A lot of lbians went there, a lot of gay people went there. It also beme known as “the” gay bar Chapel Hill the early 1960s, although not exclively queer.

Culpepper, Michael, “Harry's Bar: Chapel Hill's mored gay bar, 1960s, Michael Culpepper, ” UNC Librari, accsed Augt 12, 2023,. Tracg gay bars and clive spac through space and place offers some sight to the divis and helps intify what has been lost and which vacuums rema to be filled Durham’s queer nightlife spac. ”[iii] Bee queerns was nsired a vice, gay happengs were rarely put to the wrten rerd.

GAY CHAPEL HILL TRAVEL GUI

Much of what we know om this perd om oral history, particularly an terview wh Bill Hull, a whe gay man born 1947 who lived the area his whole life. Hull scrib the Durham-Chapel Hill gay muny prr to 1970 as “sular, but iendly — centered mostly around small, unrground gay bars, close iends and private parti.

”[iv] Though they were far om accepted by mastream society a nservative Southern state, available acunts suggt that gay people durg this time were mostly left alone as long as they were not publicly visible or flamboyant. Though some atten experienced gay-bashg om Mar (who Hull speculated were likely closeted themselv), the club amazgly had few police teractns.

GAY NORTH CAROLA TRAVEL GUI

The cy thori were aware of the illegal land e and gay meetgs, but “as long as there was no trouble there, as long as people are discreet and don’t break traffic laws and don’t do the street and sre the hors, there would be no problem. While Durham gays gathered unofficially plac such as the Washgton De Hotel bar (now Jack Tar rtrant), both ci had official tablished gay bars.

BT GAY BARS DURHAM, NORTH CAROLA

Chapel Hill, home to a very large and nnected queer muny, was generally much more open than Durham (at least for whe gay men).