Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
Contents:
- MASKED BALLS AND GAY UPRISGS: QUEER MAPS IS A GUI TO 150 YEARS OF LGBTQ HISTORY
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- GAY ADULT PERFORMER BILLY SANTORO ADMS HE FAKED A SUICI ATTEMPT AFTER BACKLASH FOR RACIST POSTS
- THE 4TH ANNUAL GENTLEMEN’S BALL: GAY MEN OF LOR, CELEBRI ATTEND MASQUERA EVENT [PHOTOS]
MASKED BALLS AND GAY UPRISGS: QUEER MAPS IS A GUI TO 150 YEARS OF LGBTQ HISTORY
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“I have been arrted New York more tim than I have fgers and to, ” she told an terviewer om the San Francis Lbian and Gay History Project 1983, “for wearg pants and a shirt. Reunts his encyclopedic book Gaylaw, “by the begng of the 20 century, genr appropriatens… was creasgly nsired a sickns and public offense.
Mchell also noticed an addnal wrkle: gay men and transgenr women who mentn the three-article le were ually beg arrted bar raids. ” The gang was so amed by Boyce’s fiant attu, they let him pass Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny.
At the time, homosexual acts remaed illegal every state except Illois, and bars and rtrants uld get shut down for havg gay employe or servg gay patrons. Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time were operated by the Mafia, who paid rptible police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them. Here, protters monstrate outsi the New York gay bar, Christopher's the early hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raid by police wh no warng.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
They are pictured at a 1973 rally for gay rights New York P. Sylvia Rivera was a Lata-Amerin drag queen who beme one of the most radil gay and transgenr activists of the 1960s and '70s.
As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari). After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village.
" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. More and more supporters gathered outsi the bar, chantg slogans like “gay power” and “we shall overe. ”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement.
GAY ADULT PERFORMER BILLY SANTORO ADMS HE FAKED A SUICI ATTEMPT AFTER BACKLASH FOR RACIST POSTS
The Gay Liberatn Front was formed the years after the rts.
They are pictured here marchg Tim Square,, Sylvia Ray Rivera (ont) and Arthur Bell are seen at a gay liberatn monstratn, New York Universy, 1970 Marsha P.
THE 4TH ANNUAL GENTLEMEN’S BALL: GAY MEN OF LOR, CELEBRI ATTEND MASQUERA EVENT [PHOTOS]
Johnson is seen at a Gay Liberatn Front monstratn at Cy Hall New York, a large crowd memorat the 2nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village of New York Cy 1971. An all-night der where gay teens once gathered. A bar for black lbians who lled themselv “hard drsers” are some of the 800 historic LGBTQ stutnsthat have found new life this week wh the lnch of Queer Maps, an teractive webse that has talogued 150 years of gay history the Los Angel regn.
It honors world-famo stutns alongsi ltle-known hnts that quietly thrived durg eras when beg gay was crimalized and map is a project of Chris Cse, a lol DJ and nightlife producer who has for years hosted unrground queer dance parti LA. Photograph: Queer MapsThe neighborhood has a vibrant gay history.
On New Year’s Day 1967, unrver officers asslted patrons at the neighborhood’s Black Cat gay tavern, arrtg 14 people, and chargg them wh lewd nduct for kissg. A group lled Personal Rights Defense and Edutn (Pri) later arranged a major prott of the police raid – two years before the Stonewall rt New Lake was also where the Mattache Society, nsired one of the first natnal gay rights groups the US, was born 1950. The neighborhood was home to a gay baret rtrant that was bombed a 1980 hate crime, a short-lived “fuck club” an dtrial space 1982, and a number of beloved bars, bathho and other now shuttered spots.