GAY POWER Offic – NYC LGBT Historic S Project

Contents:

• GAY LA: BT GAY POWER PARTI
• GAY POWER OFFIC
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• GAY POWER CLUB
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

GAY LA: BT GAY POWER PARTI

GAY POWER, New York Cy’s first post-Stonewall gay newspaper, had a brief n verg the cy’s gay culture and polics, and operated om a publishg office this buildg between September 1969 and June 1970. Soon after Stonewall, the LGBT prs emerged as an important source of rmatn through the publitn of regnal newspapers that, ntrast to earlier newsletters, embraced words such as “gay” or “lbian” their tl to ll attentn to s gay ntent. One such newspaper was GAY POWER, which, between September of 1969 and June of 1970, was published om an office at 105 Send Avenue until reloted to 20 East 12th Street.

1948) and published by Joel Fabrint, premiered on September 15, 1969, as “New York’s First Homosexual Newspaper. ” The bi-weekly newspaper had an East Coast foc wh particular attentn to New York Cy gay culture and polics. When Fabrint started GAY POWER, he was already the publisher of the East Village Other, which was loted here.

GAY POWER OFFIC

Durg s n of 24 issu, GAY POWER was known for s strikg vers wh psychelic art and ntemporary photography, cludg one by Robert Mapplethorpe, current acunts of gay activism, sexual photographs and drawgs, and regular lumns by such ntributors as Arthur Bell, Charl Ludlam, Pudgy Roberts, Bill Vehr, Pat Maxwell, and Clayton Cole. It also clud lumns by New York-based activist groups, such as the Mattache Society and the newly formed Gay Liberatn Front, and illtratns by Toa Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Fland.

In rponse to Fabrint publishg KISS and GAY POWER, Goldste, along wh Jim Buckley, lnched GAY December 1969. GAY POWER was soon eclipsed by GAY, which went on to bee the most profable LGBT newspaper the untry.

The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, began the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted Greenwich Village New York Cy. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and around the world.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Constant Raids at Gay BarsThe 1960s and precedg s were not welg tim for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins.

For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry. However, the New York State Liquor Authory penalized and shut down tablishments that served alhol to known or spected LGBT dividuals, argug that the mere gatherg of homosexuals was “disorrly. But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U.

Gay rights anizatn, The Society for Human Rights (SHR), was found 1924 by Henry Gerber, a German immigrant. Police raids forced them to disband 1925, but not before they had published several issu of their newsletter, “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

GAY POWER CLUB

In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did.

When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars. In 1966, they purchased Stonewall Inn (a “straight” bar and rtrant), cheaply renovated , and reopened the next year as a gay bar.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

It weled drag queens, who received a bter receptn at other gay bars and clubs. It was a nightly home for many naways and homels gay youths, who panhandled or shoplifted to afford the entry fee. And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi.

STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para. ”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The 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. 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).