Check out this March 1975 advertisement om "Hold Hands" (the Gay Activist Alliance of New Jersey newsletter) featurg The Other World dis! The ad claims The Other World, which was loted at 390 N. 5th Street Newark, is the “gayt gay bar” NJ. And don't fet to take note of the light show and…
Contents:
GAY DIS NEWARK (KWAZULU-NATAL)
* disco gay newark *
Kney Club, where "exotic dancer" Ree LaRue performed such shows as Gay Paree.
Newark not beg a noted gay center. Four Leaf Deli and Bar: wr Archbishop Carl Bean, Prelate-Uny Fellowship Church Movement and sger of the 1977 dis h "I Was Born This Way": "My history Newark as an Alex Bradford Sger and openly gay man is: Alex hung out neighborhood bars and therefore so did we.
There was a very fortable mixg of gay and straight Jersey folk. As I remember there was a few rather small Black Gay Bars pre-dis but I don't rell their nam.
GAY DIS NEWARK (KWAZULU-NATAL)
Use Menspac to look for one of the most appropriate Gay Dis Newark (KwaZulu-Natal) even though you keep Newark. Our wi spots talog is gettg bigger jt about on a daily basis due to folks like you. * disco gay newark *
Jackson's Lounge on Howard Street: "may be the largt gatherg place for lbians and homosexuals any cy of Newark's size … Every time s doors opened, mic and lghter spilled out, " wr journalist Ron Porambo 1971, who go on, homophobic language: "A bulldagger… and a fag began yellg at one another ont of the bar. They began fightg faggot-style, nng up and down the siwalk and around the parked rs … while the crowd of lbians and homosexuals blond wigs shouted enuragement to the fighters. Waldorf Cafeteria: downtown hub for whe gays early 60s, seen Dan Rso's memoir Downtown, which se Newark as a "thrivg, smopolan cy, " wh nstant police harassment--"a band of SS officers.
Murphy's Tavern at 135 Mulberry Street joed wh bars New Bnswick and Atlantic Cy to challenge antigay discrimatory policy toward bars.
1967: New Jersey State Supreme Court livered a sweepg victory for the gay bars, unanimoly lg that "well-behaved homosexuals nnot be forbidn to patronize taverns. "[viii] "Only gay bar Newark, " says John Francis Hunter 1972. It was one of the first gay taverns.