Fate of Stonewall Lehigh Valley, a beloved gay bar, up air after likely buildg sale

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•  PENNSYLVANIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
•  PENNSYLVANIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS ALLENTOWN
• VOGUE LOUNGE OPENG SOON AT STONEWALL SE. LEHIGH VALLEY WILL ONCE AGA HAVE A GAY BAR.
• FATE OF STONEWALL LEHIGH VALLEY, A BELOVED GAY BAR, UP AIR AFTER LIKELY BUILDG SALE
• GAY PENNSYLVANIA
• ‘STONEWALL MEMORI PROJECT’ PRERVG LANDMARK GAY BAR’S LEGACY
• VALLEY’S LGBTQ FD UNIQUE WAYS TO FILL VOID LEFT BY CLOSURE OF STONEWALL, OTHER GAY BARS

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This week Richard Smh, one of the club’s owners, nfirmed that the buildg and liquor license are unr ntract to be sold, leavg the future of the Lehigh Valley’s last gay bar unclear. If clos, the Stonewall would follow the path of two other recently shuttered LGBT-foced tablishments the Lehigh Valley and hundreds of other gay bars and clubs across the untry.

Natnwi, more than a third of gay bars closed between 2007 and 2019, said Greggor Mattson, associate profsor of soclogy at Oberl College and Conservatory Oh, who piled a database of LGBT clubs and bars.

While the Lehigh Valley’s work of LGBT anizatns is robt, the Stonewall’s closure would leave the broar regn whout an tablishment to fill the important need gay bars and clubs play muni around the world, say LGBT advot and muny lears.

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Mattson, who has studied the role and cle of gay bars small Amerin ci, said a uple of trends have ntributed to the dwdlg number of LGBT bars across the untry. The rise of geolotg smartphone apps, such as Grdr, has to some gree supplanted the role of gay bars as plac for queer people to meet each other, Mattson said.

The Paycheck Protectn Program, for example, vered wag for employe siled by the panmic, but many of the people who work gay bars, cludg performers, are nsired ntractors who were not eligible.

Likewise, fundg for performance spac was available only to bs that issued tickets, Mattson said, and while many gay bars and clubs host performers, they llect a ver charge but don’t sell tickets. “Gay bars are almost always mom-and-mom and pop-and-pop shops, ” he said. Stephen Libby, edor of The Gay Journal, said gay bars played a val support role for LGBT youth before social media ma possible for people to nnect onle and high school gay allianc were monplace.

FATE OF STONEWALL LEHIGH VALLEY, A BELOVED GAY BAR, UP AIR AFTER LIKELY BUILDG SALE

“I thk what a lot of people say and echo on Facebook is their memori of a gay bar beg their first place of acceptance, ” he said.

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Piec of memorabilia om the Stonewall and stori that are llected will be part of both a future public exhib and a special issue of the Lehigh Valley Gay Journal. Shanker said stori beg shared clu rellectns of g out and first viss to the club, which some s were also the person’s first time a gay tablishment. “Stonewall is the first place I went to as an openly gay adult 2005.

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It was a place where I uld kiss my hband on the lips and not worry about gettg lled a gay slur. ALLENTOWN — In 1980, when Candida’s Bar first opened s doors, wasn’t the only gay bar Allentown.

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While other gay bars were ls visible — sometim up a flight of stairs, behd a fence, on the other si of an unmarked door — Candida’s was unapologetilly there: a rner bar at 12th and Chew streets wh the owner’s name proudly displayed on the awng. “It was always a very bold space, a strong space, a woman-owned space, ” said Bradbury, a gay rights activist who liv a few blocks om Candida’s.

Thirty-seven years later, that pillar of strength for the cy’s gay muny will be closg s doors. After the bar clos, the Stonewall will be the cy’s only remag gay bar. The extra hours attracted gay and straight clientele.