The Story of Juli', the Famed Gay Bar 'Can You Ever Five Me?'

Contents:

• THE STORY OF JULI', THE FAMED GAY BAR CAN YOU EVER FIVE ME?
• HOW MELISSA MCCARTHY AND AUTHOR LEE ISRAEL ARE CONNECTED BY NYC’S OLST GAY BAR (EXCLIVE)

THE STORY OF JULI', THE FAMED GAY BAR CAN YOU EVER FIVE ME?

Real-life iends of Israel have nfirmed that she was homosexual. " -The New York TimSome of the Lee Israel letters referenced the sexualy of Brish playwright and performer Noël Coward, a closeted gay man. Her Coward letters eventually drew the spicn of var buyers, who knew that would have been highly unlikely for Coward to reference his homosexualy his letters, sce homosexualy was a jailg offense at the Israel referenced Noël Coward's homosexualy some of her letters (cludg the one above), which raised the spicns of alers.

HOW MELISSA MCCARTHY AND AUTHOR LEE ISRAEL ARE CONNECTED BY NYC’S OLST GAY BAR (EXCLIVE)

She scrib him as a tall, "wheaten-haired gay man" who was an "old bartendg acquatance. The central love story is a platonic one between a gay man and a gay woman, both aged over 50, who spend a large part of the film quarrellg wh a vicns that go far beyond the cliched animosi of odd-uple pairgs. Israel’s versn of Coward often ma mpy referenc that allud to his homosexualy, but as Israel later explaed, Coward “me up a very difficult perd to be homosexual.

The gay wrer -- known for penng the Tony-wng book for Avenue Q as well as the films Short B and Can You Ever Five Me? -- was troduced to the gay Greenwich Village bar around the turn of the 21st century by Ian Falner, an illtrator for The New Yorker and the Olivia children's book seri. A versn of this event -- one of the first acts of civil disobedience the morn LGBTQ rights movement -- was picted the 1995 Stonewall film, which ed the settg of the more famo gay bar s monstratn and the publicy surroundg led to a change the law that helped ee queer people om meetg secrecy and the grip of mob-n tablishments.