The first gay pub I dared set foot now has a rabow plaque. Here’s why that matters | Gary Nunn | The Guardian

Contents:

• MCULAR GAY MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• SWG THOSE PARTNERS: GAY SQUARE DANCERS GATHER PHILALPHIA
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY-SQUARE
• GAY SQUARE DANCERS ADD NEW SP TO CENTURI-OLD DANCE STYLE

MCULAR GAY MEN STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Amid the flurry of rabow-lan rporate logos, sponsored events and news ems about gay pengus, is difficult to turn on a televisn or set foot public durg June whout the remr that is Pri Month for LGBT and queer people.

Gee Dudley, a photographer and artist who also served as the first director of New York Cy’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, documented scen om pri paras New York Cy om the late 1970s through the early ‘90s. The years saw Ana Bryant’s homophobic csa through the “Save Our Children” mpaign 1977, the electn and assassatn of Harvey Milk 1978, and the Whe Night rts the followg summer after the lenient sentencg of Milk’s murrer, Dan Whe. And October 1979, the Natnal March on Washgton for Gay and Lbian Rights took place wh roughly 100, 000 participants.

SWG THOSE PARTNERS: GAY SQUARE DANCERS GATHER PHILALPHIA

“It was, a sense, the year we buted on the larger public stage, ” says Jim Saslow, a profsor of art history at the Cy Universy of New York and an early gay activist.

“We were beg acceptable enough that a gay person uld have a signifint polil reer, but we also beme very aware of how much of a nerve that was touchg for nservative people.

THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

Saslow, who was also a iend of Dudley’s, marks this era as a shift the gay liberatn movement. But as the number of out gay people grew, says Saslow, the paras transned om timate gathergs of like-md people to events attend by a broar array of participants.

“The muny started to attract more mastream folks who weren’t necsarily polilly radil or untercultural — they jt happened to be gay.

“The guy a drs wh a beard, nng ont of the task force banner, ptur a lot of the atmosphere of the early gay liberatn muny, bee so much of me out of the hippie movement, ” says Saslow.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Members of the Natnal Gay Task Force march 1981. Partners Charl Llie and Frz Lohman began to exhib art by gay artists their SoHo loft 1969, the same year the Stonewall uprisg took place.

“There weren’t that many people documentg the gay world at that time, so Gee’s photographs have an enormo importance, ” says Saslow. ” Wh the visibily afford to LGBT people today, and particularly to gay men, is easy to fet that embracg on the street was a bold actn to make.

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GAY-SQUARE

The German anthology Me Schwul Auge | My Gay Eye has published works by over 500 ternatnal artists and thors. Warmerdam, who go by “Zip, ” is a square dance ller Philalphia, often llg for the lol gay club Inpennce Squar.

For the first time, Philalphia is hostg the annual nference of the Internatnal Associatn of Gay Square Dancg Clubs.

GAY SQUARE DANCERS ADD NEW SP TO CENTURI-OLD DANCE STYLE

The annual event is anized by the Internatnal Associatn of Gay Square Dance Clubs.

There’s an add plitn gay square dancg.

But gay square dancg, the partners are not tradnally genred, and their cloth don’t match. Gotta started out as a teenager the early 1960s, llg for straight danc, and now she’s an -mand ller for both gay and straight dancers.