About That Time Prcs Diana Watched The Goln Girls and Crashed a Gay Bar wh Freddie Mercury | Vany Fair

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• FREDDIE MERCURY ONCE SNUCK PRCS DIANA INTO A GAY CLUB — WHOUT GETTG CGHT
•  PRCS DIANA SECRET PARTY GAY BAR DISGUISE DRAG QUEEN IEND EDDIE MERCURY MEMOIR KENNY EVERETT CLEO RAS
• ABOUT THAT TIME PRCS DIANA WATCHED THE GOLN GIRLS AND CRASHED A GAY BAR WH FREDDIE MERCURYBY JULIE MILLERAPRIL 1, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPRCS DIANA MAY HAVE HAD MORE FUN WHILE MARRIED TO THE BRISH ROYAL FAY THAN WE HAD ORIGALLY THOUGHT. IN HER NEW BOOK, BRISH EDY ACTRS CLEO ROS SAYS THAT SHE, QUEEN ONT MAN FREDDIE MERCURY, AND EDIAN KENNY EVERETT SNEAKED PRCS DIANA TO A SOUTH-LONDON GAY BAR, ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN, THE LATE 1980S. ROS RELLS THE EVENG THE POWER OF POSIVE DRKG, WRG THAT THE TR DRSED UP THE BELOVED LATE ROYAL DISGUISE—AN ARMY JACKET, P, AND SUNGLASS, ACRDG TO AN ACUNT OF THE STORY BY THE A.F.P.—AND WERE ABLE TO ENJOY THEMSELV VERTLY THANKS TO MERCURY’S POPULARY THE CROWD:“WHEN WE WALKED . . . WE FELT SHE WAS OBVLY PRC DIANA AND WOULD BE DISVERED AT ANY MUTE. BUT PEOPLE JT SEEMED TO BLANK HER. SHE SORT OF DISAPPEARED. BUT SHE LOVED ,” SAID ROS, WHO -STARRED EVERETT’S TELEVISN SHOW. . . .SHE SAID SHE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER DIANA WAS PROPOSNED THE BAR HER GUISE AS A MALE MOL, BUT ADD: “SHE DID LOOK LIKE A BETIFUL YOUNG MAN.”ROS ALSO CLAIMS THAT DIANA ENJOYED HERSELF SO MUCH THAT SHE TOLD THE GROUP, “WE MT DO AGA!” AFTERWARD. AMAZGLY, THE UNRVER GAY-BAR EXCURSN WAS NOT THE ONLY ACTIVY ON THE FOURSOME’S AGENDA THAT DAY. PER ROS’S RELLECTNS, THE GROUP SPENT THE AFTERNOON BEFORE THE TRIP “DRKG CHAMPAGNE ONT OF RENS OF THE GOLN GIRLS WH THE SOUND TURNED DOWN” AND IMPROVISG SHOW DIALOGUE WH “A MUCH NGHTIER STORYLE.” AFTER ASKG ABOUT THE GROUP’S PLANS THAT NIGHT, DIANA, “ FULL MISCHIEF MO,” SISTED ON JOG. ALTHOUGH ROS AND EVERETT TRIED TO DISSUA HER, WORRIED ABOUT UNSAVORY HEADL IF SHE WERE TECTED BY PAPARAZZI, MERCURY PROVED THE CIDG VOTE, TELLG THEM, “GO ON, LET THE GIRL HAVE SOME FUN.”DIANA MARRIED TO THE ROYAL FAY ON JULY 29, 1981.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYIS THIS THE BEGNG OF THE END OF THE WRERS STRIKE?BY NATALIE JARVEYJULIE MILLER
• PRCS DIANA REPORTEDLY PARTIED AT GAY CLUB WH FREDDIE MERCURY
• WHEN FREDDIE MERCURY SNUCK PRCS DIANA SI GAY CLUB DISGUISED AS A MAN
• REVEALED: HOW PRCS DIANA 'PARTIED AT GAY CLUB WH FREDDIE MERCURY DRSED AS A MAN'
• FREDDIE MERCURY ONCE SNUCK PRCS DIANA DRSED DRAG TO A GAY CLUB - INSI THE STORY
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• GAY CLUBS
• DID FREDDIE MERCURY REALLY TAKE PRCS DIANA TO A LONDON GAY PUB THE '80S?
• FREDDIE MERCURY 'SMUGGLED PRCS DIANA TO A GAY CLUB DRSED AS A MAN'
• DIANA'S NIGHT OUT WH FREDDIE MERCURY GAY BARGAY BARTOM SYKROYALIST CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 11:38PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 01, 2013 5:17AM EDT AP; GETTYPRCS DIANA WAS A HERO TO MANY THE GAY MUNY THANKS TO HER GROUNDBREAKG HOSPAL VISS TO PATIENTS DYG OF AIDS ( SEEMS HARD TO BELIEVE NOW, BUT DIANA SHOCKED THE WORLD WH HER PASSN BY SIMPLY HOLDG HANDS WH A STRICKEN VICTIM WHILE THE MERAS WERE ROLLG), BUT SEEMS HER FONDNS FOR THE GAY MUNY EXTEND TO GAY NIGHTLIFE. FOR A NEW BOOK REVEALS THAT DIANA, DRSED A ARY JACKET, DARK SHAS AND POLICEMAN'S HAT, ONCE VISED A GAY BAR WH THE QUEEN SGER FREDDIE MERCURY. THE EXTRAORDARY CLAIM WAS MA YTERDAY A NEW BOOK, THE POWER OF POSIVE DRKG, BY THE 80'S BRISH TV STAR AND MOL CLEO ROS, WHO WENT ON THE JNT WH DIANA, MERCURY AND A BRISH EDIAN NAMED KENNY EVERETT.NO, THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL STORY.CLEO ROS, WHO -STARRED THE KENNY EVERETT TELEVISN SHOW, REVEALS THE BOOK, SERIALISED THE SUNDAY TIM YTERDAY, HOW SHE, MERCURY AND EVERETT DRSED DIANA AN ARMY JACKET, BLACK P AND SUNGLASS BEFORE VENTURG TO THE ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN SOUTH LONDON. “WHEN WE WALKED . . . WE FELT SHE WAS OBVLY PRCS DIANA AND WOULD BE DISVERED AT ANY MUTE. BUT PEOPLE JT SEEMED TO BLANK HER. SHE SORT OF DISAPPEARED. BUT SHE LOVED ,” ROS SAYS.THE VENUE WAS PACKED, BUT THE PRENCE OF MERCURY, EVERETT AND ROS HELPED DIVERT ATTENTN AND DIANA WAS ABLE TO ORR DRKS AT THE BAR BEFORE THE GROUP LEFT, 20 MUT LATER.DI WAS LIGHTED WHEN SHE WAS SERVED THE BAR WHOUT BEG REGNISED.THE TRIP TO THE GAY BAR ME AFTER A BOOZY AFTERNOON WHICH THE FOUR SPENT DRKG CHAMPAGNE ONT OF RENS OF THE GOLN GIRLS WH THE SOUND TURNED DOWN.THEY IMPROVISED THE CHARACTERS’ VOIC — “BUT WH A MUCH NGHTIER STORYLE," ROS WR.DI ASKED ABOUT THEIR PLANS FOR THE EVENG.THEY SAID THEY WERE GOG TO THE ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN SOUTH LONDON.ROS, NOW 50, RELLED: “KENNY SAID, ‘IT’S NOT FOR YOU. IT’S FULL OF HAIRY GAY MEN. SOMETIM THERE ARE FIGHTS OUTSI.’“WE PLEAD, ‘WHAT WOULD BE THE HEADLE IF YOU WERE UGHT A GAY BAR BRAWL?’“BUT DIANA WAS FULL MISCHIEF MO. FREDDIE SAID, ‘GO ON, LET THE GIRL HAVE SOME FUN’.DIANA PUT ON WHAT EVERETT HAD PLANNED TO WEAR AND THE FOUR UGHT A B.ROS SAYS BOOK: “SHE DID LOOK LIKE A BETIFUL YOUNG MAN. SHE WAS ALWAYS A VERY F GIRL, SO THEY MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT, ‘THERE’S A NICE YOUNG MAN WH PERT BUTTOCKS’.”THE FOLLOWG DAY DI HAD THE CLOTH URRIERED BACK WH A NOTE ENDG: “WE MT DO AGA!"THE NIGHT OUT IS THOUGHT TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE 1988, WHEN HER MARRIAGE TO PRCE CHARL WAS ON THE ROCKS.FREDDIE MERCURY DIED OF AIDS-RELATED PNMONIA AGED 45 1991, AND EVERETT OM AN AIDS-RELATED ILLNS AGED 50 1995. TOM SYK

FREDDIE MERCURY ONCE SNUCK PRCS DIANA INTO A GAY CLUB — WHOUT GETTG CGHT

The Prcs was clearly down to have a good time and they all loved hangg out wh her, but the three iends figured that their plan to go dancg at Royal Vxhall Tavern, the inic London gay club, wouldn’t be all that tertg to Her Royal Highns.

But Diana surprised them all by requtg to tag along to the club, nsequenc be potential ramifitns of brgg the then-future Queen of England to a rowdy gay bar durg the wild 1980s flat out terrified Ros.

“We plead, ‘What would be the headle if you were ught a gay bar brawl?

 PRCS DIANA SECRET PARTY GAY BAR DISGUISE DRAG QUEEN IEND EDDIE MERCURY MEMOIR KENNY EVERETT CLEO RAS

Fortunately, elaborate outfs were the norm the mid-'80s London gay club scene, providg a perfect opportuny.

ABOUT THAT TIME PRCS DIANA WATCHED THE GOLN GIRLS AND CRASHED A GAY BAR WH FREDDIE MERCURYBY JULIE MILLERAPRIL 1, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPRCS DIANA MAY HAVE HAD MORE FUN WHILE MARRIED TO THE BRISH ROYAL FAY THAN WE HAD ORIGALLY THOUGHT. IN HER NEW BOOK, BRISH EDY ACTRS CLEO ROS SAYS THAT SHE, QUEEN ONT MAN FREDDIE MERCURY, AND EDIAN KENNY EVERETT SNEAKED PRCS DIANA TO A SOUTH-LONDON GAY BAR, ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN, THE LATE 1980S. ROS RELLS THE EVENG THE POWER OF POSIVE DRKG, WRG THAT THE TR DRSED UP THE BELOVED LATE ROYAL DISGUISE—AN ARMY JACKET, P, AND SUNGLASS, ACRDG TO AN ACUNT OF THE STORY BY THE A.F.P.—AND WERE ABLE TO ENJOY THEMSELV VERTLY THANKS TO MERCURY’S POPULARY THE CROWD:“WHEN WE WALKED . . . WE FELT SHE WAS OBVLY PRC DIANA AND WOULD BE DISVERED AT ANY MUTE. BUT PEOPLE JT SEEMED TO BLANK HER. SHE SORT OF DISAPPEARED. BUT SHE LOVED ,” SAID ROS, WHO -STARRED EVERETT’S TELEVISN SHOW. . . .SHE SAID SHE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER DIANA WAS PROPOSNED THE BAR HER GUISE AS A MALE MOL, BUT ADD: “SHE DID LOOK LIKE A BETIFUL YOUNG MAN.”ROS ALSO CLAIMS THAT DIANA ENJOYED HERSELF SO MUCH THAT SHE TOLD THE GROUP, “WE MT DO AGA!” AFTERWARD. AMAZGLY, THE UNRVER GAY-BAR EXCURSN WAS NOT THE ONLY ACTIVY ON THE FOURSOME’S AGENDA THAT DAY. PER ROS’S RELLECTNS, THE GROUP SPENT THE AFTERNOON BEFORE THE TRIP “DRKG CHAMPAGNE ONT OF RENS OF THE GOLN GIRLS WH THE SOUND TURNED DOWN” AND IMPROVISG SHOW DIALOGUE WH “A MUCH NGHTIER STORYLE.” AFTER ASKG ABOUT THE GROUP’S PLANS THAT NIGHT, DIANA, “ FULL MISCHIEF MO,” SISTED ON JOG. ALTHOUGH ROS AND EVERETT TRIED TO DISSUA HER, WORRIED ABOUT UNSAVORY HEADL IF SHE WERE TECTED BY PAPARAZZI, MERCURY PROVED THE CIDG VOTE, TELLG THEM, “GO ON, LET THE GIRL HAVE SOME FUN.”DIANA MARRIED TO THE ROYAL FAY ON JULY 29, 1981.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYIS THIS THE BEGNG OF THE END OF THE WRERS STRIKE?BY NATALIE JARVEYJULIE MILLER

“Sctizg her the half light, ” Ros wrote her book, “we cid that the most famo in of the morn world might jt – jt – pass for a rather eccentrilly drsed gay male mol. Dpe objectns raised by Queen Elizabeth, Diana spoke out early and often on behalf of AIDS patients durg a time when the public — often due to erroneo prs reports and medil misrmatn — was filled wh misnceptns about the nascent plague that was killg gay men by the thoands. Years after her passg, she was honored wh a portra the Gay Ins exhib at London’s Natnal Portra Gallery.

PRCS DIANA REPORTEDLY PARTIED AT GAY CLUB WH FREDDIE MERCURY

Her beliefs were clearly passed on to her children; Prce Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, have been vol on social media about LGBTQ rights and, Harry stood up for one of the UK’s first openly gay soldiers when he was beg abed by fellow soldiers durg their time Afghanistan.

WHEN FREDDIE MERCURY SNUCK PRCS DIANA SI GAY CLUB DISGUISED AS A MAN

By eveng, the high jks lated, and the gang cid to go clubbg to the inic gay baret bar, the Royal Vaxhll Tavern South London.

The answer: by makg her a “rather eccentrilly drsed gay male mol.

REVEALED: HOW PRCS DIANA 'PARTIED AT GAY CLUB WH FREDDIE MERCURY DRSED AS A MAN'

In 2019, Sky Arts’ Urban Myths seri broadst the programme Prcs Diana, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett, which imag the epic night out even , the fictnalised Diana (played by Sophie Rundle) beiends a drag queen the Tavern and spir her to start her mpaigng for gay rights and her work wh those who have HIV/AIDS. While Queen's rock mic is wily regard by lns of fans across the globe as a passport to a world wh zero judgment and tchy chants, Prcs Diana nsired their mic as a leral pe to a different world, one that clud drag queens, rens of 'Goln Girls', and gay bars, Yahoo reports.

Later that night, Prcs Diana asked if she uld tag along for a trip to the famo gay bar Royal Vxhall Tavern when she found out the group's next plan. While Royal Vxhall was known for s rough crowd and bar fights, and the media would have a field day if they ught Diana the middle of a brawl a gay bar, the prcs was persistent.

She was drsed aviator glass, a leather p, and an army jacket, makg her look like a "rather eccentrilly drsed gay male mol, " acrdg to Ros' scriptn of her attire.

FREDDIE MERCURY ONCE SNUCK PRCS DIANA DRSED DRAG TO A GAY CLUB - INSI THE STORY

In her new book, Brish edy actrs Cleo Ros says that she, Queen ont man Freddie Mercury, and edian Kenny Everett sneaked Prcs Diana to a south-London gay bar, Royal Vxhall Tavern, the late 1980s.

Amazgly, the unrver gay-bar excursn was not the only activy on the foursome’s agenda that day. Prcs Diana is remembered for her grace and passn, but she also had a wild si, based on new revelatns that she reportedly partied drag at a gay club wh legendary pop star Freddie Mercury.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

But she loved , ” Ros reveals extracts prted the Sunday Tim, addg that the future mother of Prc William and Harry looked like a “rather eccentrilly drsed gay male mol. Diana, who died a Paris r crash 1997 aged 36, beme a hero to many the gay muny when she was filmed holdg hands and fortg AIDS patients, an act that was shockg to some people at the time. Prcs Diana head for a gay bar wh Freddie Mercury drsed as a manPart of what ma Prcs Diana's personaly so charmg was her spontaniety, somethg which her good iend Freddie Mercury also and Freddie are said to have had a mischiev iendship, where at one pot they got so reckls that they even spent their entire night at a gay bar.

"It is then when the Prcs head for a gay bar wh Freddie while beg drsed sunglass, an army jacket and relled, "When we walked ...

PRINCESS DIANA partied at a gay club wh Freddie Mercury drsed as as “betiful young man”, a bombshell book claims. Comedian Cleo Ros claimed her 2013 book "The Power of Posive Drkg” that the late Eighti she and Kenny Everett acpanied Prcs Diana and Freddie Mercury to a gay club South London – the Royal Vxhall Tavern. “But people jt seemed to blank reportedly partied at a gay club wh Freddie Mercury (Image: GETTY)Malek has already taken home a Goln Globe, a BAFTA award, and a Screen Actors Guild award (Image: GETTY)"She sort of disappeared but she loved .

GAY CLUBS

"The edian add that the Prcs of Wal looked like a "rather eccentrilly drsed gay male mol" Prcs of Wal, who tragilly passed away a r crash 1997, beme a symbol for many the LGBT was stmental the Brish LGBT story at every angle, beatg the rt of the royals to an clive seismic effects of Prcs Diana visg Aids wards did so much to humanise the illns, changg public perceptns om victim-blamg to empathy almost overnight. He once snuck the Prcs drsed drag to a gay club. In 2013, actrs Cleo Ros relayed an acunt of their iendship her was another close pal of the Prcs, who explaed that the royal wore a disguise to enter a gay club London, thanks to her iend, Mercury!

They announced that they would vis the Royal Vxhall Tavern, a gay club, and surprisgly, she beme terted.

DID FREDDIE MERCURY REALLY TAKE PRCS DIANA TO A LONDON GAY PUB THE '80S?

The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that.

The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world. Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St.

The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic. The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur.

FREDDIE MERCURY 'SMUGGLED PRCS DIANA TO A GAY CLUB DRSED AS A MAN'

—Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli. —Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars. It’s gay Cheers.

It feels like everythg a gay bar should be. When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce.

DIANA'S NIGHT OUT WH FREDDIE MERCURY GAY BARGAY BARTOM SYKROYALIST CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 11:38PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 01, 2013 5:17AM EDT AP; GETTYPRCS DIANA WAS A HERO TO MANY THE GAY MUNY THANKS TO HER GROUNDBREAKG HOSPAL VISS TO PATIENTS DYG OF AIDS ( SEEMS HARD TO BELIEVE NOW, BUT DIANA SHOCKED THE WORLD WH HER PASSN BY SIMPLY HOLDG HANDS WH A STRICKEN VICTIM WHILE THE MERAS WERE ROLLG), BUT SEEMS HER FONDNS FOR THE GAY MUNY EXTEND TO GAY NIGHTLIFE. FOR A NEW BOOK REVEALS THAT DIANA, DRSED A ARY JACKET, DARK SHAS AND POLICEMAN'S HAT, ONCE VISED A GAY BAR WH THE QUEEN SGER FREDDIE MERCURY. THE EXTRAORDARY CLAIM WAS MA YTERDAY A NEW BOOK, THE POWER OF POSIVE DRKG, BY THE 80'S BRISH TV STAR AND MOL CLEO ROS, WHO WENT ON THE JNT WH DIANA, MERCURY AND A BRISH EDIAN NAMED KENNY EVERETT.NO, THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL STORY.CLEO ROS, WHO -STARRED THE KENNY EVERETT TELEVISN SHOW, REVEALS THE BOOK, SERIALISED THE SUNDAY TIM YTERDAY, HOW SHE, MERCURY AND EVERETT DRSED DIANA AN ARMY JACKET, BLACK P AND SUNGLASS BEFORE VENTURG TO THE ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN SOUTH LONDON. “WHEN WE WALKED . . . WE FELT SHE WAS OBVLY PRCS DIANA AND WOULD BE DISVERED AT ANY MUTE. BUT PEOPLE JT SEEMED TO BLANK HER. SHE SORT OF DISAPPEARED. BUT SHE LOVED ,” ROS SAYS.THE VENUE WAS PACKED, BUT THE PRENCE OF MERCURY, EVERETT AND ROS HELPED DIVERT ATTENTN AND DIANA WAS ABLE TO ORR DRKS AT THE BAR BEFORE THE GROUP LEFT, 20 MUT LATER.DI WAS LIGHTED WHEN SHE WAS SERVED THE BAR WHOUT BEG REGNISED.THE TRIP TO THE GAY BAR ME AFTER A BOOZY AFTERNOON WHICH THE FOUR SPENT DRKG CHAMPAGNE ONT OF RENS OF THE GOLN GIRLS WH THE SOUND TURNED DOWN.THEY IMPROVISED THE CHARACTERS’ VOIC — “BUT WH A MUCH NGHTIER STORYLE," ROS WR.DI ASKED ABOUT THEIR PLANS FOR THE EVENG.THEY SAID THEY WERE GOG TO THE ROYAL VXHALL TAVERN SOUTH LONDON.ROS, NOW 50, RELLED: “KENNY SAID, ‘IT’S NOT FOR YOU. IT’S FULL OF HAIRY GAY MEN. SOMETIM THERE ARE FIGHTS OUTSI.’“WE PLEAD, ‘WHAT WOULD BE THE HEADLE IF YOU WERE UGHT A GAY BAR BRAWL?’“BUT DIANA WAS FULL MISCHIEF MO. FREDDIE SAID, ‘GO ON, LET THE GIRL HAVE SOME FUN’.DIANA PUT ON WHAT EVERETT HAD PLANNED TO WEAR AND THE FOUR UGHT A B.ROS SAYS BOOK: “SHE DID LOOK LIKE A BETIFUL YOUNG MAN. SHE WAS ALWAYS A VERY F GIRL, SO THEY MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT, ‘THERE’S A NICE YOUNG MAN WH PERT BUTTOCKS’.”THE FOLLOWG DAY DI HAD THE CLOTH URRIERED BACK WH A NOTE ENDG: “WE MT DO AGA!"THE NIGHT OUT IS THOUGHT TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE 1988, WHEN HER MARRIAGE TO PRCE CHARL WAS ON THE ROCKS.FREDDIE MERCURY DIED OF AIDS-RELATED PNMONIA AGED 45 1991, AND EVERETT OM AN AIDS-RELATED ILLNS AGED 50 1995. TOM SYK

—Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic? It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria.

It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood.

It brought the gay and straight muni together the ‘90s wh clever baret programmg.