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Contents:

• BILLY EICHNER TO PLAY PL LYN BPIC OF THE GAY TV IN
• CENTER SQUARE GAY
• CENTER-SQUARE GAY : GAY & BLACK GLOSSARY
• SWG THOSE PARTNERS: GAY SQUARE DANCERS GATHER PHILALPHIA
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL TO MUCH FANFARE

BILLY EICHNER TO PLAY PL LYN BPIC OF THE GAY TV IN

Acrdg to Center Square, two thgs stood Lyn’s way: alholism and homosexualy. Lyn’s homosexualy was an open secret Hollywood. His persona was gay to those the know, but not to everyone.

As an example, my wife, who was open to a range of cultur and ials growg up, knew of Lyn’s homosexualy.

Alhol turned out to be a greater publicy problem than beg gay. Growg up gay the Midwt the 1920s did not help, but lns survived the experience whout velopg Lyn’s self-stctive behavr.

CENTER SQUARE GAY

Asi om beg a the leadg sarstic voice of the airwav, Lyn rved out a space for himself as the least-nvcgly closeted gay man televisn. Historic s, popular neighborhoods, and LGBTQ+-owned bars and rtrants Philalphia's Gayborhood and beyond...

The Cy of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affectn hosted the untry’s first major monstratn for gay rights, the Annual Remrs, 1965. And today, Philly visors n easily explore s where LGBTQ+ history was ma and where queer life ntu to thrive, pecially the cy’s Gayborhood and durg annual events like Philly Pri 365.

CENTER-SQUARE GAY : GAY & BLACK GLOSSARY

The Gayborhood. The center of Philalphia’s gay rintial life and culture sce World War II, the blocks between 11th and Broad streets and Pe and Chtnut streets earned their nickname — the “Gayborhood”— durg an October Outft event 1995.

SWG THOSE PARTNERS: GAY SQUARE DANCERS GATHER PHILALPHIA

You have your choice of fabulo entertament and diversns as the bars and nightclubs of the Gayborhood e alive each night. Shoppg the Gayborhood. Sce 2015, the brilliant rabow crosswalks at the tersectn of 13th and Loct Streets have served as an sential Gayborhood landmark.

Take a guid tour through the Gayborhood and learn more about the cy’s queer history wh help om Beyond the Bell Tour. The group’s LGBTQ and Trans History tours reunt the stori of Gay Liberatn Front – Philalphia founr Kiyoshi Kuromiya, explore morn history and current social issu the neighborhood, and stop at important muny s like the Attic Youth Center, which supports LGBTQ+ youth experiencg homelsns. The Gayborhood got a h new mural at the start of Pri Month 2021 when muralist Ash Ryan fished this three-story-tall tribute to pop star Lil Nas X.

THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA

Historic Gayborhood Markers.

BIN SIGNS GAY MARRIAGE BILL TO MUCH FANFARE

Get your history straight wh historic LGBTQ+ markers sprkled throughout the Gayborhood, cludg:. In 1965, the Universy of Pennsylvania expelled Fryer om his psychiatric rincy program on the basis of his homosexualy, which was then classified as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA). In 1972, Fryer, a faculty member at the Temple Universy School of Medice, offered an electrifyg anonymo ttimony that rulted the APA’s 1973 classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns.

Philalphia Gay News Marker: This marker stands ont of the first office of the Philalphia Gay News, one of the natn’s most award-wng weekly newspapers. Inpennce Hall was the se of the untry’s earlit anized recurrg gay rights monstratns, begng July 4, 1965.

Meetg atten planned the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. 3rd Street to the gay activists who found the cy’s first LGBTQ+ ffeehoe. Like most gay men the first half of the 20th century, Locke remaed closeted throughout his life.

A pneer the LGBTQ+ rights movement, Gtgs, a Philalphia rint om age 18 and a lifetime activist, eded The Ladr, the natn’s first lbian magaze; -anized the Annual Remrs at Inpennce Hall (see above) and led charg both to promote posive LGBTQ+ lerature public librari and to change the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Across Broad Street, a sign at 13th and Loct streets the Gayborhood clar the thoroughfare Barbara Gtgs Way.

It’s where radil gay llective Gazoo found Philalphia’s Gay Liberatn Front and where bisexual blu sger Bsie Smh performed at the Royal Theatre, an early 20th-century Black-owned cultural center.

Today, the street’s known for s Magic Garns, cheteak shops and hangouts, cludg dive bar extraordaire Bob & Barbara’s Lounge, home of one of Philly’s bt-loved drag shows; the punk art LGBTQ+ haven Tattooed Mom; and the eclectic, gay-owned boutique shop Workshop Unrground. Billy Eichner will play Pl Lyn an upg bgraphy movie based on the life of the gay TV in.

Eichner (“Billy on the Street”), who intifi as gay, is velopg “Man the Box” based on the actor who was the first TV personaly to brg gay humor to the mass the 1970s. On the “Hollywood Squar” game show, Lyn sat the center square for 10 years (1971-1981) and kept the stud dience stch wh his gay nuendo jok. “One of the ma reasons I want to do this is…bee gay actors are never, hardly ever, I should say, allowed to play our own gay ins, ” Eichner said.

Where are the gay actors? “I don’t thk there needs to be a le, like straight actors n never play gay, but is so lopsid. Gay actors should play the rol.