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Contents:

• GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY
• THE BEST MUNICH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MUNICH
• BEYOND STONEWALL: HOW GAY HISTORY LOOKS DIFFERENT FROM CHIGO
• FOR THE LOVE OF GAY BARS
• BEYOND OFF SUNSET: A GUI TO GAY SILVER LAKE

GAY MUNICH TRAVEL GUI – GERMANY

In Maryland the first gay leather club, the ShipMat Club of Baltimore was found 1974 and beme the first anizatn to raise money for the newly found Gay Men’s Health Crisis, which later beme Chase Brexton.

In Washgton, DC 1978 four gay motorcycle clubs got together and formed an anizatn to raise money for LGBTQ anizatns, such as the Gay Men’s VD Clic, which beme the Whman-Walker Clic. Gay Munich Travel Gui: Beer, bratwursts, tradnal stum, and sportg ambns – the Bavarian pal Munich as the third-largt German cy has many characteristics for which Germany is famo.

THE BEST MUNICH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MUNICH

The gay movement began to secure a permanent place Munich as early as the 1950s, which of urse was a very posive and progrsive velopment not only for gay men but also for the entire LGBTQ+ muny.

One of the most famo figureheads of gay life Munich was Freddie Mercury, -founr, poser, and lead sger of the band Queen, who lived Munich’s Glockenbackviertel for about six years. Munich today is still one of the LGBTQ+ and gay-iendlit ci Germany, not only thanks to s numero lotns but also through social projects that support the young queer generatn.

BEYOND STONEWALL: HOW GAY HISTORY LOOKS DIFFERENT FROM CHIGO

In our gay Munich travel gui, we n particularly remend two hotels: The Aloft Munich, a Marrtt-n hotel near Munich Central Statn, and the Dtsche Eiche, which has also ma a name for self as a hotel Germany’s most expensive trendy district.

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How about, for example, a gay cy tour wh tour gui Alexanr Kardashenko om YourMunichTour, who always had the right rmatn about the LGBTQ + muny ready for the highlights of the cy of Munich?

In our list of LGBTQ+ and gay-iendly plac Munich, we grouped the loli by topic to Gay Clubs and LGBTQ+ party lotns, Gay bars, gay snas, Fetish loli, as well as rtrants and fés.

Make sure to put a trip to Hamburg, Berl, Drn, the island Rügen and beyond on your bucket list while visg one of the most gay-iendly untri Europe acrdg to the annual Gay Travel Inx 2020. But as John Blair, arguably the longt-workg gay nightlife promoter New York, swaggered through what would soon be XL, the cy’s first new gay megaclub many years, you uld almost hear the thump of the dance mic, see the wrhg throng of shirtls men and smell the heady mix of logne, dry ice and sweat.

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Blair said, listg the plac where he has thrown parti the last 30-odd Blair, who giv his age as “well past 50, ” is tall and affable, wh lightly lacquered hair that evok a 1970s televisn game-show this ld afternoon right after New Year’s Day, he was wearg a heavy dark-brown wool at, ncealg the chiseled upper body that once set a gold standard for gay Chelsea mcle culture, where Mr. Blair poted out attribut of the 4, 000-square-foot club, set to open Thursday night, as part of a “gay and straight-iendly” rort, the Out NYC, on Wt 42nd Street, wt of 10th Avenue. Blair said he closed bee he received a too-good-to-refe offer on the buildg (the loadg dock to the Dream Downtown hotel now stands there) the years sce, he has kept a lower profile, briefly owng the Limelight club, which he renamed the Avalon before sellg , and promotg a popular Saturday night at Splash, another gay club Chelsea.

Thursdays will be hosted by Sanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny, who brgs neon-lored drag queens and alternative club kids, and Saturdays will feature classic hoe mic the tradn of the of XL’s return, however, has not been universally embraced, wh some gay bloggers wrg about how the club will prent an embarrassgly outdated versn of gay nightlife. It has been home to the cy's most well-known gay bars, LGBT-iendly servic and, for years, the ftivi of the annual Baltimore Pri a new generatn is makg s prence known a wir range of neighborhoods.

Some of the issu at play are growg acceptance the wir muny; lol LGBT learship expandg beyond gay whe men to women, people of lor and the transgenr muny; and an up-ont effort by Old Goucher to bee intified as the "gayborhood. "The clg need for a centralized "gayborhood" reflects a larger natnal trend, said Jim Downs, associate profsor of history at Connecticut College and thor of "Stand by Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn.

Three years later, the first Baltimore Pri rally occurred downtown and the Baltimore Gay Alliance — forenner of the GLCCB — was the years, Mount Vernon emerged as the cy's most LGBT-iendly area as Chase Brexton Health Servic and bars like the now-closed Club Hippo, Grand Central, the Drkery, Leon's and other gay-owned bs opened and sectns of the cy — cludg Waverly, Abell and Charl Village — were known as gay-iendly neighborhoods, but Mount Vernon "was the epicenter, " said Jim Becker, a -founr of him, Mount Vernon is still the "gayborhood, " but he acknowledg that generatnal chang have lsened s impact. "Eric Costello, the uncilman who reprents Mount Vernon, did not rpond to requts for ment for this Lyl avoids clarg any sectn the "new gayborhood, " Cross has been openly urtg the distctn sce beg print of the Old Goucher neighborhood associatn 2013.

"The GLCCB was started primarily by whe gay men, so … early on that's who drove the narrative, " said Moni Stevens Yorkman, a black transgenr woman who ns Sistas of the T, a transgenr support group.

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After all, those days the Natn of Islam, unr the learship of Elijah Muhammad, was known for propagatg strictly fed rol for men and women—the very rol that gay liberatnists were mted to fyg. The gay liberatnists’ young attorney, Renee Hanover, who had once been kicked out of law school 1964 for beg a lbian relatnship, had fend members of the Blackstone Rangers and other ant black power activists agast tmped-up crimal charg.

The story of how gay Chigoans got their dance offers a visn of gay history—of distct radil groups fg improbable, often msy allianc to achieve limed, but tangible, progrs—that don’t f the “first brick” heroic mythology we’re ed to. “We are the gay Amerins whose blood ran on the streets of San Francis and New York, ” Print Barack Obama clared last year Selma, Alabama, on the anniversary of the legendary votg rights march there, “jt as blood ran down this bridge.

Where policians had only que recently sought easy polil pots om raidg gay bars, gays and lbians acquired sufficient power and fluence for elected officials to urt them aggrsively as a potential votg bloc—not least by mpaigng those same bars.

The path to gay polil power and fluence ran not only through the Castro district and Greenwich Village, but also—and even more importantly—through cy hall the natn’s dozens of other mags for gay migratn and muny buildg: om Atlanta to Seattle, Boston to Dallas.

The Stonewall uprisg and Harvey Milk’s electn were important, but if they are the only stori our history textbooks and popular culture, our grasp of the gay past is distorted. In a petn labeled “Fotten Cizens Une, ” they clared, “Every time there is an electn or a polil nventn, the bars equented by homosexuals are raid, ” bee officials “em a crime” for gay people to ngregate. Gay activists circulated their petn among the antiwar monstrators Lln and Grant parks—the first time gay Chigoans had circulated a petn public, askg strangers to sign support of their e.

The aln that ma possible the cle of gay bar raids Chigo clud both a left-liberal alliance foced on challengg police btaly, and also a seri of police rptn trials which a Republin prosecutor, hopg to damage the Daley mache’s Democratic stranglehold on lol ernment, granted bartenrs, cludg gay on, immuny to ttify that ps had shaken them down for sh brib. Gay activists San Francis and New York moved on om focg on policg the 1960s to other issu the 1970s—and historil narrativ often assume that this shift happened everywhere else at the same time.