Mt Vernon was home to the Gay Communy Center of Baltimore for 34 years & is where Baltimore held s first pri celebratn 1975. The history is there to legimize . However many of Mt…
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PLACE: WHERE IS BALTIMORE'S GAYBORHOOD?
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The Baltimore Gay Paper Baltimore, Md. Beloved lol drag performer Tia Chambers reads an updated Baltimore Queer after the Baltimore Gay Paper which was a primary source for my rearchContext for my LGBT activism MarylandAn addn to the historil non & llective knowledgeA llectn of stori, perspective & quiry to Baltimor gay pastThis is the harst part of my rearch, ntextualizg scraps of our rerd history.
Maly om the Baltimore Gay Paper but also om alternative sourc like the Ao-Amerin, my former anizatn, the Baltimore Transgenr Alliance, as well as my own personal social media project is 2 years the makg & I won’t claim objective tth. Gay men had a uple clubs & bars sttered around the cy like Leon’s & Club Baths and lbians had Diana Prs & the 31st street bookstore to the north — the were the very first public meetg spac for LGBT muny here Baltimore, but needs soon exceed Baltimore Gay Alliance was found 1975, the first polil activist group for gay people the cy. For many brave gay people Baltimore, wasn’t enough to jt have private spac, the people wanted muny & this muny wanted a voice.
Gay Communy Center of Baltimore spl off om the Baltimore Gay Alliance 1977 — the new GCCB would serve as a support servic anizatn, & the BGA would ntue wh their polil anizatn & activism. The Gay Communy Center of Baltimore would later bee the GLCCB & is known today as the Pri Center of GCCBs first offic were a small basement sue of rooms the 2100 block of Maryland Avenue: home to unselg servic, a meetg space & a men’s sexual health clic. Gail Vivo also worked on the GCCB newsletter, which eventually grew to The Baltimore Gay Paper, a key player that lked rmatn om the muny center to the muny GCCB grew om this loose nglomerate of multiple enti workg together the 70’s.
GAY LIFE NEWSPAPER, APRIL 1979-OCTOBER 2015
The stereotype of gay men as out the bars while lbians anize potlucks at home miss the vibrant history of lbian social spac Baltimore. That same issue of the Gay Communy Center newspaper featured a map of lbian and gay plac the cy, cludg at least six bars—and that's not untg the floatg bar on the regular gay and lbian cis around the harbor, the popular Ladi Tea at the Hippo—then lled The Pk Hippopotam—or the many women's * gay paper baltimore *
— However, the lengthy procs of renovatg a former pball warehoe to a new muny center was fueled by the materials, labor & sh donated by muny members saw the birth of Baltimore’s gay muny & the tablishment of this new center saw thrive.
The Baltimore Gay Alliance (the group that the GCCB sprang om) was rponsible for the first two attempts at cy hall 1980 & 1984 but were feated due to heavy lobbyg om relig groups & the Archdce of the third attempt, activists were now anizg a sophistited lobbyg effort unr a broad aln lled the Baltimore Jtice Campaign. Protectn om discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn would go on to pass 1988 & was sential wh the ever-growg stigma & discrimatn gay people Baltimore were facg, whether they had HIV or not. Baltimore OUTloud is Mid Atlantic’s premier pennt voice of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Qutng (LGBTQ) muny provi prehensive news, provotive opns, and the latt lol entertament and are published bi-weekly every other Friday by Pri Media Limed, and livered throughout the Mid-Atlantic regn.