P-Hoe: The rise and mise of a legendary gay rort - Bungalower

Contents:

• P-HOE: THE RISE AND MISE OF A LEGENDARY GAY RORT
• GAY RALEIGH
• GAY AUGTA
• THE BT GAY CLUB - PARLIAMENT HOE

P-HOE: THE RISE AND MISE OF A LEGENDARY GAY RORT

– A new lotn of the Inic Orlando gay bar Parliament Hoe will open downtown Orlando the near future, acrdg to a social media post om the new lotn will be at 29 S.

Yet, miraculoly, the hotel was purchased by Michael Hodge and Bill Miller 1975, wealthy queer vtors who saw potential transformg the sad hotel property to a fabulo new gay-geared venue.

The property purchase occurred a few years after an uprisg at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn, which is wily nsired to be the birth of the morn gay rights movement.

GAY RALEIGH

Hodge and Miller, who had opened Orlando’s first gay bar, The Palace Club, the same year as the rt, had already tablished themselv as figureheads the lol gay muny, along wh three other lol bar operators: Jan Koren, Wally Wood, and Sue Hannah – who were affectnately (and probably unaffectnately pendg on what dner table you were at) referred to as “The Gay and Lbian Gang. ” Their send venture was a bar lled Diamond Head, which opened 1972 on the send floor of the Opera Hoe on Court Avenue, and the succs of their ventur helped them move on to their largt project yet, turng the funct Parliament Hoe gay. Unr their stewardship, Parliament Hoe went om a bankpt hotel to a thrivg gay rort and entertament hub, wh multiple bars onse and a dis room.

There was nothg like the regn and you’d be forced to drive all the way to Miami to fd a gay-owned hotel wh live entertament and multiple entertament venu on se. It was like a Gay Narnia, ma all the more entertag due to s proximy to the Happit Place the World only 30 mut away. Which, as you n image, ma Parliament Hoe all the more popular wh s gay patrons.

GAY AUGTA

The documentary expos more than jt the good tim that were had at Parliament Hoe, such as how the club helped to nnect the gay muny Orlando the ‘80s, and how tegral the tablishment was to keepg that muny together durg the AIDS crisis, hurrin, and chang ownership. A portn of his memorial, published the gay monthly newspaper of the time, Triangle, read as follows:. “Mike was one of the greatt supporters of gay and lbian life that Orlando has ever had.

They purchased the property om the tate of Michael Hodge while was perched on the brk of closg, wh aspiratns of addg a neighborg timhare velopment and the natn’s first gay retirement muny, neher of which me to un. When police raid gay bars the 1950s and 1960s, they forced dividual patrons to a unified ristance.

While queer people still fd themselv battlg agast polil opportunists and homophobic polici, bars and clubs play ls of a role the stggle. Gay clubs have been closg creasg numbers the past and social apps like Grdr and Scff allow queer – and closeted – people to teract wh each other at all tim of the day whether at home or the middle of a board meetg.

THE BT GAY CLUB - PARLIAMENT HOE

Type: Bar, Dance Club, Gay and Lbian, Gay Bar, Hotel Bar, Late Night / After Hours, Live Entertament, Lounge.