History of Gay Bars – Gay the CLE

Contents:

• GAY CLEVELAND THROUGH THE S: THE CLUBS, QUEENS AND MIC THAT BROUGHT GAY CULTURE TO THE MASTREAM
•  OH LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE BEST CLEVELAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CLEVELAND
• HISTORY OF GAY BARS

GAY CLEVELAND THROUGH THE S: THE CLUBS, QUEENS AND MIC THAT BROUGHT GAY CULTURE TO THE MASTREAM

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 OH LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

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is the bt gay bar Cleveland. Say what you want, but gay bars have been the rnerston of LGBTQ culture for a very long time. In the 1960s, as New York’s gay muny started g to s own, we need a place where we uld e together whout fear of reprisals.

THE BEST CLEVELAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CLEVELAND

Until that pot, there were laws place, most of the untry that gay men uld not be served public. All took was for a bartenr to assume you were gay for them to not serve you and even have you arrted. New York had a liquor law that barred what they lled disorrly nduct on premis, this was ed to make sure that gay men didn’t dance together bars or even be romantic wh one another.

HISTORY OF GAY BARS

A Tony Lria bought the Stonewall Inn 1966 and ma the first gay bar. After the events at Stonewall, more gay bars started poppg up ci all over the untry. This gay more ral LGBTQ people opportuni to meet others like themselv to alleviate the feelg of beg alone, even if was only once every month or so.

In the 1970s there were as much as two-dozen gay bars, acrdg to Their ma areas were the Warehoe district and a small stretch of St Claire. We also have seen the addn of a new gay bar on the east si of Cleveland, All Ax’s. This was the start of the cle of the gay bar scene.

I thk is important to remember where our foundatns lie and we mt accept that gay bars were a val part of that foundatn.