"For the morng gays": The importance of LGBTQ-owned f as sober, queer spac |

Contents:

• JOE REDBURN, FOUNR OF TWO FAMO SALT LAKE CY GAY BARS, DI HOMELS SHELTER AT 82
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
• « PK TV »: VISIBLEMENT GAY
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• 'I WANTED PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN.' AFTER 27 YEARS, LOUISVILLE SAYS FAREWELL TO INIC GAY BAR
• CLUBS ET BARS GAYS à MARSEILLECLUBS ET BARS GAYS à MARSEILLE
• GAY MARSEILLE
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

JOE REDBURN, FOUNR OF TWO FAMO SALT LAKE CY GAY BARS, DI HOMELS SHELTER AT 82

(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Joe Redburn, founr of The Sun and The Trapp, receiv the Utah Pri Center's Lifetime Achievement Award Redburn, the founr of two inic Salt Lake Cy gay bars who brought the beer for what beme the first Utah Pri celebratn, has died. )Redburn was spired by the Midnight Sun, a gay bar San Francis, Boyer said.

At the time, he thought, “Are there this many gay people the whole world? Statn brass said they let him go bee of a format change; Redburn said was bee he was openly gay and a liberal on an creasgly nservative medium.

” Dabakis also rang doorbells the Avenu for Redburn, when he ma an unsuccsful n for the Utah Legislature 1975, Redburn, Boyer and others anized a party Cy Creek Canyon for about 300 gay men and lbians. In 1991, he opened a small, homey gay untry-wtern bar, The Trapp, at 600 Wt and 100 South. “We are alg wh the generatn where was not OK to be gay, ” said Hall, who overse the Utah chapter of SAGE, a group for elrly queer people.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

They are a generatn, she said, that has alt wh discrimatn and ostracism, havg their homosexualy treated as a mental disorr, and the aths of iends durg the AIDS epimic of the said a memorial service is beg planned for Redburn November at The Sun Trapp.

"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

Franse prevly operated a gay-iendly baret lled Club 181 beneath the Yiddish Arts Theatre at 2nd and 12th until he lost his liquor license. While most of the performers were gay, the ctomers were largely adventuro heterosexual el lookg for a ltle ribald good fun; Frank Satra, Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Taylor, and Judy Garland to name jt a few. Like many mobsters, Genove fanced Village gay bars, which were prevented om obtag legimate fundg due to homophobic laws and social stigmas.

Club 82 lost much of s che the 1960s as Village homosexuals grew more foced on fightg for their rights than tillatg straight ctomers. Sce then, the basement has been an on-aga-off-aga unmarked gay porn theater lled the Bijou.

« PK TV »: VISIBLEMENT GAY

And like other "gay" tablishments, was also reportedly n by the Mafia.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Opened 1938, Club 82 was one of a few gay-iendly clubs the cy at the time. Even paratively tolerant New York Cy, gays and lbians faced discrimatn, and harassment om police was route. In other words, male performers were expected to look like men when they entered and left the club, and rtrict their drag attire and makp to the fact, bars and nightclubs that openly tered to gay patrons or showsed gay performers were nsired "disorrly ho" by the State Liquor Authory and would not be issued liquor licens.

Always on the lookout for a profable bs venture, New York's Mafia saw an opportuny and eventually me to operate many, if not most, of the cy's gay bars, cludg the Stonewall Inn. By the 1960s, the Genove crime fay owned and operated most of the gay bars Greenwich Village, cludg Club club's day-to-day operatns were handled by Stephen Franse, a partner of Vo Genove. Franse had operated other gay-iendly clubs the Village until losg his liquor license.

In retaliatn, Genove had Franse murred one of Club 82's more sndalo the 1960s, homosexuals were ls terted entertag straight clientele and more terted equaly.

'I WANTED PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN.' AFTER 27 YEARS, LOUISVILLE SAYS FAREWELL TO INIC GAY BAR

Wh the advent of the gay and lbian movement, a club featurg performers drag was no longer seen as exotic or subversive, and the allure of Club 82 cled. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. We're jt for the morng gays.

CLUBS ET BARS GAYS à MARSEILLECLUBS ET BARS GAYS à MARSEILLE

"When people thk of gay spac or queer spac, they immediately thk of a nightclub or bar — maybe a ltle hole the wall, " he said.

Gay bars hold a eply important place the history of LGBTQ rights and visibily the Uned Stat. For s and s, jt visg a gay bar was a high-risk activy.

For young members of the LGBTQ muny, gog out to a gay or lbian bar was almost like a re of passage. Growg up as a queer, Black women Louisville, Kentucky, Arielle Clark said that she felt like there were certa "ton" she wanted to meet to feel at home the muny: She wanted to attend Kentucky Pri and meet other LGBTQ people, and then she wanted to get to some kd of gay bar or nightclub bee that's where everyone spent time on the weekends. C rnièr anné, l homosexuels ont to observé un changement dans l mentalés, une pl gran acceptatn la société.

GAY MARSEILLE

« Je ne che pas mon homosexualé, mais je ne l'affiche pas non pl, pour mon entourage, pour ma fale.

» S'assumer, mais ne pas provoquer, telle t l'attu adoptée par beup d'homosexuels à Tarb. Lr li ralliement t le Hollywood Bar, sl établissement la ville ouvertement et exclivement sté à une clientèle gay.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Selon Ala, 28 ans et ouvertement gay, la sle solutn pour s'assurer une clientèle dans son sex-shop éta d'vtir le créne bisexuel.

Ici, l homosexuels vivent chés et lftrés. L gays et lbienn Tarb forment, lr propre avis, un i très fermé.