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RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
An openly gay print would generate headl, although one hop that today’s more tolerant Ameri, wouldn’t be nsired sndalo. But roughly 1 35 adult Amerins intify as gay, and we’ve had 44 prints... In all likelihood we have had our first gay print, and unfortunately for the gay muny, ’s Jam Buchanan, 15th print of the Uned Stat, and number one on many a list of worst prints ever.
The send ndidate for first gay prez is cidly more illtr. I me to this ncln after readg Gay by the Bay: a History of Queer Culture the San Francis Bay Area by San Stryker and Jim Van Bkirk, which says (on page 24), "The first black-owned and oriented gay bar the cy, the Big Glass on Fillmore, did not open until 1964. A genealogil database shows that Arthur Rossky was Jewish, born Rsia and emigrated as a child 1922, so the owners didn't appear to be eher Ain-Amerin or gay.
I ntacted the thors of Gay by the Bay.