How the Mob Helped Establish NYC’s Gay Bar Scene | HISTORY

Contents:

• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
• PROPAGANDA (CLOSED)NOTTGHAMMENUHOTELSBARSGAY MAPUK · SNA & CISEUK INXPROPAGANDA (CLOSED)
• HONG KONG GAY BARS & CLUBS

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Read our transparency report to learn 2014 • CouplI am a gay man my early 30s, and have been gog to Propaganda (monly referred to as "PP" by lols) every trip to Hong Kong sce my late teen years (so jt shy of 15 yrs). Compare to other gay clubs around the globe, I would give a 4/5, but pare to what else are there Hong Kong, is servg of a 5/5.

HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

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PROPAGANDA (CLOSED)NOTTGHAMMENUHOTELSBARSGAY MAPUK · SNA & CISEUK INXPROPAGANDA (CLOSED)

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HONG KONG GAY BARS & CLUBS

However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men. Gay men Germany were not a monolhic group, nor did the Nazi regime view them as such. For example, gay men active anti-Nazi polil movements risked beg arrted as polil opponents.

Already the mid- to late-neteenth century, there were ditns of nascent and growg gay muni Germany. Among the terms were “gleichgchlechtlich” (“same-sex oriented”) and “homosexuell” (“homosexual”). The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”).

The newer slang word “schwul” (often translated to English as “gay”) was also creasgly popular among certa groups. Gay muni and works Germany ntued to grow and velop durg the Weimar Republic (1918–1933). In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach.

It was the relatively eeg atmosphere of the Weimar Republic that gay muni and works grew and veloped unprecented ways. Some joed “iendship leagu” (Frndschaftsverbän), groups that polilly and socially anized gay men, lbian women, and others. Gay men gathered together at meetg plac, such as bars, that tered to a gay clientele.