Gay-Friendly Rtrants Columb

Contents:

• GAY COLUMB TRAVEL GUI
• COLUMB GAY BARS
• GAY COLUMB
• MOVG TO LGBT COLUMB, OH? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS COLUMB
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS COLUMB

GAY COLUMB TRAVEL GUI

Gay Columb.

"Homosexualy is an unclean practice, " the preacher sps, his voice risg as blood sh to his face. " The AIDS crisis was full swg, exacerbatg anti-gay sentiments.

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Homosexuals om surroundg stat will flock here. "He clos wh a rhetoril qutn: "Who the world wants Columb to be known as the gay pal of the Midwt? "Three s later, Columb pris self on beg a place where rints are not only tolerant but supportive of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny.

Young gay people jt accept this as their due.

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"Those rponsible for changg the hearts and mds of Columb rints were a diverse group of passnate activists who spoke out agast jtice and fought for civil rights at a time when beg openly gay was not only socially damagg but physilly dangero. Supreme Court lg that uld, effect, legalize gay marriage throughout the untry.

Ameri's gay liberatn movement began June 28, 1969, Manhattan's Greenwich Village at a gay bar lled the Stonewall Inn.

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Soon after, the first gay rights anizatns New York Cy formed, and the movement slowly spread across the untry.

After the march, the newly vigorated gay activists renvened at one member's hoe.

"To rec members for Stonewall Unn, Thogmart and the other founrs set up rmatn tabl gay bars.

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Others held signs that read thgs like, "Hi Mom I'm Gay, " and "There are gays Yellow Sprgs.

"The first thg I did was volunteer to work secury at the gay pri para, " says Cozad, who owns Alternative Auto Care Victorian Village. The AIDS epimic slammed to Columb jt as had other ci around the natn, leavg a sea of grief, fear and anti-gay hysteria s wake. She found a lol chapter of Blood Sisters, a group that enuraged lbians to donate blood on behalf of gay men who were banned om dog so.

Cozad creds the crisis wh brgg together the men's and women's gay muni. In some ci, gay and lbian muni are segmented and tend to work penntly of one another achievg civil rights. C., whose sole purpose was to raise money for polil ndidat who supported gay rights issu.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS COLUMB

Vic Basile, HRC's first executive director, had heard about the gay muny formg Columb and vised hop of fdg a lol lear. "You may have been known to be gay, but you weren't out. Even if people knew you were gay, wasn't talked about.

"She pots to how far Columb has e the past 30 years, om havg two sexual orientatn ordanc stck down Cy Council to havg two openly gay Cy Council members, an openly gay police chief and a mayor who is vol about LGBT rights. "Columb' reputatn as a gay-iendly cy isn't jt somethg we praise lolly. People other ci regnize , wrer Joey Amato says Columb is known throughout the Midwt as beg gay-iendly and welg.

When he vised Columb for the send time recently, "every venue I went to, whether was gay- or straight-owned, was welg, " says Amato, publisher of UNITE magaze. Columb has a strong gay culture, he says, which is often directly related to the number of LGBT-owned bars and rtrants the cy. "The Short North is not technilly nsired a gayborhood, but 's close, " Amato says.