From stage ach stop to gay bar: A history of the Me Hill Tavern | Morristown Green

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• FROM STAGE ACH STOP TO GAY BAR: A HISTORY OF THE ME HILL TAVERN
•  NEW JERSEY LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
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FROM STAGE ACH STOP TO GAY BAR: A HISTORY OF THE ME HILL TAVERN

Demonstrators nounced laws that barred gay and lbian Amerins om ngregatg public plac, and the police harassment that many experienced, and the anized crime syndit that ran the few bs willg to serve gay ctomers. At the same time the Gay Rights Movement was reachg a turng pot across the Hudson River, a small bar Morris County quietly was beg the social nex for generatns of Northern New Jerseyans who otherwise would have few plac to meet eely. The Me Hill Tavern began terg to Northern New Jersey’s gay and lbian populatn.

Many longtime ctomers scribed the transn as takg place gradually, wh mixed crowds slowly changg to predomantly gay ctomers as the eveng progrsed. In Matt Connor’s 2003 book, Waterg Hole: The Colorful History of Booze, Sex, and Death at a New Jersey Tavern, Maddie’s nephew Carl Gladish reunts: “There was a wonrful mixture of straight and gay people, wonrful Me Hill people, Randolph people, people om Mount Fern.

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At first the gay clients “kept a lower profile when mers, hunters, and employe of Hercul and Pitny were the bar, ” but slowly transned to a much more open tablishment.

Wh a ral populatn of only 3, 500, Me Hill was an unlikely lotn for Morris County’s first gay bar, pecially at a time when such tablishments were centered around large ci like New Bnswick, Newark, Asbury Park, and Trenton.

Dcribed as lorful and posssg an oversized personaly, Maddie equently weled the Gay Activist Alliance of Morris County (GAAMC) to the Tavern, where many of the group’s young members spent hours playg pball and listeng to the jebox’s eclectic mix of popular mic, rangg om Patsy Cle to dis. Connor not that Maddie never publicly addrsed beg gay herself, spe livg wh her longtime partner, Mre, the tavern’s third floor apartment, and her regular ctomers’ faiary wh the uple’s outrageo explos together.

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Durg this perd, the Gay Activist Alliance of Morris County was particularly active, beg the largt anizatn of s kd the state. Through all, the Me Hill Tavern ntued as a hub of the gay and lbian muny, and Maddie and Mre did what they uld for their ctomers, keepg the bs open on holidays to serve dner to those rejected by their fai. For 140 years the unassumg three-story stcture served as a sanctuary for weary travelers, a waterg hole for area workers, and one of the few social outlets for three s of gay and lbian rints.

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