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A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS
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NIGHTCLUBBG: GAY CLUBBG ’70S LONDON
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Throughout the later 20th century, the LGBTQ muny took thgs to their own hands and created their own night time scene cludg gay bars and ballroom. (Image source: Michael Nagle/For The Tim)What was gay club culture like?
A survey of 200 matchbooks om a bygone era of L.A.'s gay bar scene at the downtown Central Library. * gay clubs 1980s *
The small wareho (averagg around 3, 000 square feet) beme home to the the gay club scene at night. (Image Source: Anja Matth)Gay bars provid a safe space for LGBTQ muny members to go whout fear of beg harassed for their inty, and allowed them to meet other members of the muny. However, gay bars were still not fully accepted to societal norms and were kept very small wh bland ont opengs.
Gay bars have also been the startg se of many historil LGBTQ tragedi cludg the Black Cat Tavern, Stone Wall, and Pulse Night Club, all of which sparked revolutns for the rights of the LGBTQ club culture origated the early to mid-1900s but tly began to thrive and grow the ’70s and ’80s. Many popular terms such as “ballroom”, “vogue” and “dis” origated through Mic of the Gay Club Scene. For example, the song YMCA, known by dividuals om the cy to the untrysi, was ially wrten to attract gay dienc and ptivate the club and bar scen.
A look back at Hollywood’s unrground gay club culture of the 1970s. That saw a major shift towards the emergence of a global gay culture.
Geni Pictur has optned Emmett Monterey’s memoir about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London for TV adaptatn. * gay clubs 1980s *
The gay genie me right out of s ltle pk bottle and to the streets (and the media…and polics…and the arts…).
For example, the US, the Court of Appeal led that there was no ‘fundamental right’ to be gay.