Free Prs Flashback: How the 'Godfather of Gay Detro' helped lnch the morn mic scene
Contents:
- CURSID: DID DETRO EVER HAVE A ‘GAYBORHOOD’?
- GODFATHER OF GAY DETRO
- FREE PRS FLASHBACK: HOW THE 'GODFATHER OF GAY DETRO' HELPED LNCH THE MORN MIC SCENE
- JAGUARS ACH MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- FREE PRS FLASHBACK: HOW THE 'GODFATHER OF GAY DETRO' HELPED LNCH THE MORN MIC SCENE
CURSID: DID DETRO EVER HAVE A ‘GAYBORHOOD’?
I’m terted the history of whether or not there was a gay neighborhood Detro. After World War II, downtown Detro was a hub for gay bars.
GODFATHER OF GAY DETRO
Then, startg the 1950s, the gay populatn began followg the migratn pattern of many Metro Detroers, headg northward.
FREE PRS FLASHBACK: HOW THE 'GODFATHER OF GAY DETRO' HELPED LNCH THE MORN MIC SCENE
Today, the area around Six Mile Road and Woodward Avenue has remaed a hub for the Ain Amerin gay muny. ‘Michigan’s Gayt Square Mile’.
Greg Piazza, a former Palmer Park rint, rells, “There was one buildg we lled ‘The Barracks’: 48 apartment uns, 46 of them were gay men.
JAGUARS ACH MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Piazza, thor of A History of Detro’s Palmer Park, says the archecture of the buildgs, open-md management, and some child-ee livg polici, attracted a strong gay ntgent. Piazza remembers eight bars, two gay-iendly bookstor and two rtrants.
On a recent Thursday, a small crowd has already gathered at Menjos, an inic gay club that’s been on Six Mile Road near Woodward sce the early 1970’s. “I thk would be a mistake to say that Palmer Park is no longer a gay neighborhood, ” says Dr. Tim Retzloff, a historian who has tracked the gay migratn Metro Detro.
FREE PRS FLASHBACK: HOW THE 'GODFATHER OF GAY DETRO' HELPED LNCH THE MORN MIC SCENE
“In some rpects there’s still a strong gay prence Palmer Park, ’s now jt an Ain-Amerin gay prence and not a Whe gay prence. For the past 20 years, the Black gay pri celebratn “Hotter than July” has hosted s annual piic Palmer Park. He regniz the signifince of the area, but says he isn’t actually nvced gay neighborhoods facilate progrs.