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1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
1920s and 30s: Gay bars surface. Tavern on Camac is one of the olst gay bars Philalphia, if not the olst.
Was a Prohibn-era speakeasy and “gentleman’s club” lled Maxe’s, where lol gay men, soldiers, and sailors would nverge. A lot of socializg among the cy’s queer rints durg the ’40s and ’50s happened at hoe parti anized by Quaker-affiliated groups, acrdg to thor Marc Ste, who vered the era his book “Cy of Sisterly and Brotherly Lov: Lbian and Gay Philalphia. 1950s: Gayborhood = Rtenhoe Square.
Durg the middle of the century Rtenhoe Square was the cy’s gay moment.