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• QSINY: STATEN ISLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CLUB MORE THAN A
• OUT OF STEP WH N.Y.C., STATEN ISLAND PARA STILL BANS GAY MARCHERS
• HERE’S A TIMELE OF LGBTQ+ HISTORY ON STATEN ISLANDPUBLISHED ON JUN 17, 2022 GABRIELLE JIMENEZ OF GRYM HILL AND HOPE STEMAN-IACULLO OF MIDLAND BEACH, BOTH 18, ALSO MARCHED STATEN ISLAND'S FIRST PRI PARA. GABRIELLE SPOKE OUT ABOUT WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY TEEN: "KIDS YELL OUT 'F-----' OM THEIR RS." (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)BY REBEKA HUMBRECHT | FOR THE STATEN ISLAND ADVANCESTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- ALTHOUGH NEW YORKERS MAY ASSOCIATE GREENWICH VILLAGE OR PARK SLOPE WH NEW YORK CY’S CULTURAL HUBS FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, STATEN ISLAND HAS A LONG HISTORY OF PRI AND PA OF S OWN.DATG ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, THERE IS EVINCE THAT THE LGBTQ+ MUNY HAS BEEN LLG STATEN ISLAND HOME FOR SOME TIME. WHILE THE ISLAND STILL HAS MOUNTAS TO MOVE TO BE AN CLIVE SPACE, A LOOK BACK AT THE LOL HISTORY HELPS UNRSTAND HOW FAR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY HAS TLY E ON STATEN ISLAND.FROM THE ISLAND’S FIRST GAY BAR TO HATE CRIM TO THE FIRST SAME-SEX MARRIAG, TAKE A LOOK THROUGH THE TIMELE OF STATEN ISLAND’S LGBTQ+ HISTORY. THIS HISTORY IS NOT ALL-CLIVE, AND ’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE ADVANCE/ ARCHIV DO NOT REPRENT THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF A MUNY THAT HAS BEEN - AND STILL IS, TO AN EXTENT - CLOSETED FOR MANY YEARS.GRAHAM MARR RENAMED THE WYETH HOE AT 190 MEISNER AVE, WHERE HE AND HIS PARTNER NORMAN ROBERT MORRISON LIVED, TO "MARR LODGE." (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STAFF-SHOT1925: MARR LODGE OWNED BY SAME-SEX UPLEMARR LODGE IS A LSER-KNOWN HISTORIL LGBTQ+ SE ON STATEN ISLAND. IT BEME THE HOME OF PARTNERS GRAHAM MARR AND NORMAN ROBERT MORRISON 1925, ACRDG TO AN ADVANCE/ ARTICLE 2010. THE LIGHTHOE HILL MANOR IS PROTECTED BY THE NYC LANDMARKS PRERVATN COMMISSN.1950S: MAYFAIR BAR & GRILL IS ISLAND’S FIRST GAY BARMAYFAIR BAR & GRILL WAS ONE OF THE FIRST RERD GAY BARS ON THE ISLAND, LOTED AT 3 HYATT STREET, ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT. IT REMAED A POPULAR BAR WELL TO THE 1970S.1963: BEACH HAVEN BE HOME OF LBIAN SCENEBEACH HAVEN OPENED AROUND 1963 AND BY 1971 BEME A POPULAR LBIAN BAR ON THE ISLAND, ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT. LBIANS WERE MORE LIKELY TO EQUENT THE BAR THAN PREVLY MENTNED MAYFAIR BAR & GRILL, WHICH WAS MORE POPULAR AMONG GAY MEN.1971: RICHMOND COLLEGE TABLISH FIRST GAY ANIZATN“GAY LIB, RICHMOND COLLEGE” WAS A GROUP TABLISHED AT THE LLEGE, TODAY’S COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND (CSI), ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT.1972: STATEN ISLAND COMMUNY COLLEGE TABLISH FIRST GAY ANIZATNAN AD WAS PLACED THE STATEN ISLAND COMMUNY COLLEGE (SICC), TODAY’S CSI, FOR A MEETG OF “THE GAY PEOPLE AT SICC,” ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT. IT WOULD EVENTUALLY BEE THE “GAY LIBERATN CLUB.”A 1985 FILE PHOTO SHOWS WRER, LBIAN, FEMIST, AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AUDRE LOR. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE1972: AUDRE LOR MOV TO STATEN ISLANDAUDRE LOR IS A RENOWNED LBIAN POET WHO LIVED A HOME AT 207 ST. PL’S AVENUE UNTIL 1987.1973: FIRST LGBTQ+ URSE TGHT AT SICCARNIE KANTROWZ, A PROFSOR AT SICC, TGHT “HOMOSEXUALS & LERATURE,” WHICH VERED WALT WHEMAN TO RA MAE BROWN. IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST URS OF S KD THE UNTRY, ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT.1981: LAMBDA ASSOCIAT FOUNDLAMBDA ASSOCIAT OF STATEN ISLAND (LASI) WAS FOUND 1981 AND RPORATED 1983, ACRDG TO THE STATEN ISLAND MM. THEIR ANIZATN HAD A MISSN TO “STUTE AND PROMOTE A SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND EDUTNAL ASSOCIATN ON STATEN ISLAND FOR GAY MEN AND WOMEN.”1988: STATEN ISLAND AIDS TASK FORCE FOUNDTHE STATEN ISLAND AIDS TASK FORCE WAS FORMED 1988 AND WAS LOTED AT 25 HYATT STREET, ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT. THIS ANIZATN WOULD PAVE THE WAY FOR TODAY’S PRI CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND.A SILENT SADNS AT MURR SCENE OF JAM ZAPPALORTI, A GAY MAN WHO WAS STABBED TO ATH CHARLTON. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE1990: JAM ZAPPALORTI MURREDTHE MOST NOTOR LGBTQ+ HATE CRIME ON STATEN ISLAND WAS THE MURR OF JAM ZAPPALORTI. HE WAS STABBED TO ATH BY TWO MEN AT HIS HOME CHARLTON ON JANUARY 22, 1990. PROTTS ENSUED THE FOLLOWG DAYS AND MONTHS, LLG FOR LGBTQ+ TOLERANCE AND CLN. HIS KILLER, MICHAEL TAYLOR, TOLD THORI THAT HE “DIDN’T LIKE QUEERS” AND THOUGHT ZAPPALORTI WOULD BE AN EASY TARGET FOR ROBBERY BEE HE WAS GAY.1990: ST. PATRICK’S PARA BANS LGBTQ+ ANIZATNS OM MARCHGTHIS YEAR, 1990, WAS THE FIRST ONE ON ADVANCE RERD THAT ISLAND LGBTQ+ ANIZATNS APPLIED AND WERE BARRED OM MARCHG STATEN ISLAND’S ST. PATRICK’S PARA. IN MARCH 2022, THE PRI CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND WAS STILL NIED OM PARTICIPATN THE PARA BY THE HOSTS, THE ANCIENT ORR OF HIBERNIANS.AN UNDATED FILE PHOTO SHOWS MCHELL GBLER, THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE ALICE AT HOE MM. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)1994: DIRECTOR OF ALICE ATEN HOE MM FIRED FOR PUTTG HER PHOTOGRAPHY LGBTQ+ EXHIBNAFTER SUBMTG ALICE ATEN’S PHOTOGRAPHY TO BE ED AN EXHIBN TLED “BEG VISIBLE: AN ILLTRATED HISTORY OF LBIAN AND GAY LIFE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERI,” THEN-DIRECTOR OF THE ALICE ATEN HOE MM, MCHELL GBLER, WAS FIRED OM HIS POSN AT THE MM, ACRDG TO AN TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK ARCHIVE PRERVATN PROJECT.THIS AN ANTI-GAY BILLBOARD WAS PHOTOGRAPHED ON BAY STREET NEAR THE RNER OF SLOSSON TERRACE ON MARCH 4, 2000. (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE2000: ANTI-GAY BILLBOARD POSTED ON BAY STREETON BAY STREET, NEAR SLOSSON TERRANCE, AN ANTI-GAY BILLBOARD WAS POSTED. THE BILLBOARD SPARKED A PRAYER VIGIL BY LGBTQ+ ACTIVISTS AND A RALLY AT BOROUGH HALL BY ISLANRS PROTTG THE REMOVAL OF THE SIGNS. REV. KRISTOPHER OKWEDY OF KEYWORD MISTRI PAID FOR TWO BILLBOARDS, WHICH HE WAS FORCED TO REMOVE BY THEN-BOROUGH PRINT GUY MOLARI. OKWEDY WOULD GO ON TO CLAIM THAT HIS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE VLATED BY MOLARI, A SE THAT WAS DISMISSED BY THE URT AND BROUGHT BACK BY THE REVEREND SEVERAL TIM THROUGH 2006. IN 2006, HE CLAIMED, “HOMOSEXUALS HAVE A PREFERRED POSN THE CY OVER CHRISTIANS,” WHILE HIS SE WAS AGA AWAG A LG.JAMIE GANGE, A SENR AT TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL THE 2003, STARTED THE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE AT HIS SCHOOL. (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE2003: THREE LOL SCHOOLS FORM GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCGAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC (GSAS) WERE FOUND AT CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL, STATEN ISLAND TECHNIL HIGH SCHOOL, AND TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. JAMIE GANGE, A THEN-RISG SENR AT TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, STARTED THE GSA AT HIS SCHOOL AFTER FEELG UNSAFE AS A TRANSGENR MALE AT SCHOOL, HE TOLD THE ADVANCE/ 2003.2004: “LBIAN LETTER” TARGETS SAVOA LETTER CLAIMG THAT THEN-SENATE NDIDATE DIANE SAVO WAS A LBIAN WAS WRTEN HER NAME AN ATTEMPT TO FAME HER NOVEMBER OF 2004. SAVO WOULD LATER ATTEMPT TO HAVE CRIMAL CHARG FILED AGAST THOSE WHO WROTE THE LETTER JANUARY 2005.GABRIELLE JIMENEZ OF GRYM HILL AND HOPE STEMAN-IACULLO OF MIDLAND BEACH, BOTH 18, ALSO MARCHED STATEN ISLAND'S FIRST PRI PARAGE. GABRIELLE SPOKE OUT ABOUT WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY TEEN: "KIDS YELL OUT 'F-----' OM THEIR RS." (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)2005: ISLAND’S FIRST PRI PARATHE FIRST PRI PARA ON STATEN ISLAND WAS HELD ON JUNE 4, 2005. WHAT STARTED AS A PEACEFUL EVENT END UP AN ARRT AFTER PLEASANT PLAS RINT MIKE VEACH HARASSED MARCHERS ALONG THE MIDLAND BEACH PROMENA. HE WOULD LATER BE CHARGED WH AGGRAVATED ASSLT.JULY 2006: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAW FAILS TO PASS THROUGH APPEALSON JULY 7, 2006 THE NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS LED THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS NOT PROTECTED UNR LAW. WAYNE STEMAN, WHO UNOFFICIALLY MARRIED HIS SCE PASSED LONGTIME PARTNER SALVATORE IACULLO 2003, TOLD THE ADVANCE/SILIVE 2007, “OUR HIGHT URT HAS ENSHRED DISCRIMATN BASED UPON FALLACI AND ANTIQUATED IAS ABOUT MARRIAGE.”NOVEMBER 2006: HH OPENS TOTTENVILLEHH OPENED ON NOVEMBER 16, 2006, WHICH THE ADVANCE/ SCRIBED AS “A GAY NIGHTCLUB THAT’S NOT BEG KEPT UNR WRAPS” ON THE ISLAND.FEBARY 2007: NEW JERSEY BEGS OFFERG CIVIL UNNS TO SAME-SEX UPLTHE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT NEW JERSEY WOULD BEG OFFERG CIVIL UNNS WAS MET WH BOTH EXCEMENT AND DISAPPOTMENT BY STATEN ISLANRS. ISLANRS MARTY FKLE AND MICHAEL PLAKE APPLIED FOR THEIR LICENSE AT THE SOUTH ORANGE TOWN HALL, EXPLAG THAT WAS “AS CLOSE TO MARRIAGE AS WE’RE GOG TO GET FOR RIGHT NOW.”A 2010 FILE PHOTO SHOWG ASSEMBLYMAN MATTHEW TONE TALKG ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE BEG A GAY MAN ON STATEN ISLAND. (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE PHOTO/HILTON FLOR)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEMARCH 2007: ISLAND ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIALMATT TONE, AN OPENLY GAY MAN, WAS ELECTED AS A MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY FOR THE 61ST DISTRICT, LOTED ON STATEN ISLAND’S NORTH SHORE. WHILE TONE RECENTLY SAID HE FACED SOME BLATANT DISCRIMATN DURG THE MPAIGN PROCS, HE TOLD THE ADVANCE/ THERE WERE ALSO “DOZENS OF STATEN ISLANRS AND STRANGERS, WHO HAD NOTHG BUT FORTG AND ENURAGG WORDS FOR ME. SENTIMENTS ALONG THE L OF, ‘YOUR URAGE ALONE HAS EARNED MY VOTE.”'MARCH 2007: SAME-SEX DOMTIC PARTNERS GIVEN MARRIAGE BENEFS BY THE CYFORMER MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG SIGNED A BILL THAT ENSURED THAT ALL SAME-SEX DOMTIC PARTNERS WOULD RECEIVE THE SAME PROSPECTIVE BENEFS AND SERVIC THAT NEW YORK CY OFFERED MARRIED UPL. THEN-CY COUNCIL SPEAKER, CHRIST QUN, SAID, “WE’RE ONLY FORTABLE WHEN ALL NEW YORK FAI ARE TREATED EQUAL TO THE GREATT GREE THE MUNICIPAL LAW N, AND THAT’S WHAT THIS BILL WILL DO.”OSR ASTA AND HIS PARTNER, PL INCHERCHERE, STAND ONT OF RACIST AND ANTI-GAY REMARKS WRTEN ON A BUILDG ACROSS THE STREET OM THEIR HOME. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEMAY 2007: RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS LEFT ON CLIFTON BUILDGA REMARK WAS LEFT ON THE DOOR OF A GARBER LUMBER CO. BUILDG AT 72 GREENFIELD AVENUE, WHICH PARTNERS OSRD ASTA AND PL INCHERCHERE WHO LIVED ACROSS THE STREET BELIEVE WERE TARGETED TOWARD THEM. THE SIGN READS: “MEXINS ARE PERVERTS AND NEED TO STOP G TO AMERI!”CY COUNCIL SPEAKER CHRISTE QUN GREETS FORMER ADVANCE WOMAN OF ACHIEVEMENT TERI RSO AT THE OPENG OF THE LGBT COMMUNY CENTER ON VICTORY BOULEVARD TOMPKSVILLE. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEMAY 2008: STATEN ISLAND LGBT CENTER OPENSTHE COMMUNY HEALTH ACTN OF STATEN ISLAND (CHASI) UNVEILED S NEW LGBT CENTER AT 25 VICTORY BLVD ON MAY 17, 2008. THE OPENG CENTER WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT CHASI WOULD HAVE ALL OF S LGBTQ+ SERVIC UNR ONE ROOF, AND LATER BEME THE FIRST HOME OF THE PRI CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND.SEPTEMBER 2008: PASSAG TRAVEL AGENCY OPENSERIC AVERSA AND ANTE SILVTRO OPENED A NEW DIVISN, PASSAG, AT MAJORS TRAVEL WT BRIGHTEN TAILORED TOWARD GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR CTOMERS.RICHARD AND LOIS NITRA ARE PICTURED AT STATEN ISLAND'S FIRST GAY LIFE EXPO AT THE HILTON GARN INN. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)JANUARY 2009: ISLAND HOSTS FIRST GAY LIFE EXPOTHE GAY LIFE EXPO ME TO STATEN ISLAND FOR THE FIRST TIME ON JAN. 25, 2009. IT WAS HELD AT THE HILTON GARN INN BLOOMFIELD AND BEME AN ANNUAL EVENT ON THE ISLAND.SAS VELEZ SHOWS OFF HERTT-SHIRT OM Q-SINY, THE ONLY GAY BAR AND RTRANT ON THE ISLAND 2009. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)SI ADVANCEJUNE 2009: Q-SINY OPENSQ-SINY OPENED RIGHT AFTER THE PRI PARA JUNE 2009, BEG THE ISLAND’S ONLY GAY BAR AT THE TIME. THE RTRANT WAS OPENED BY JIM MCKERNAN AND HIS LONGTIME PARTNER RAY CARR MIDLAND BEACH.WAYNE STEMAN OF MIDLAND BEACH AND ROSE ELLITT OF ELTGVILLE HOLD A BANNER AT THE BOROUGH HALL VIGIL FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCENOVEMBER 2009: ISLANRS HOLD VIGIL ON EVE OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTEISLAND LGBTQ+ ANIZATNS, ACTIVISTS AND RINTS ME TOGETHER FOR A NDLELIGHT VIGIL ON THE STEPS OF BOROUGH HALL TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAG ON THE EVE OF A STATE LEGISLATURE VOTE ON THE ISSUE. THE NEXT DAY, THE LEGISLATURE VOTED AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAG.APRIL 2010: CSI TRODUC GENR-NTRAL BATHROOMSTO ENSURE A WELG, ALL-CLIVE MP, THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND RETROFTED ABOUT 20 OF S RTROOMS – ONE EACH BUILDG – TO BE GENR-NTRAL AND FAY-IENDLY, MAKG THE FIRST TNAL STUTN THE BOROUGH TO DO SO.JUNE 2010: CIVIL CEREMONI FOR DOMTIC PARTNERS BEGTHE CY BEGAN ALLOWG CIVIL CEREMONI FOR LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS JUNE 2010; PREVLY, SAME-SEX UPL WERE ONLY ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE PAPERWORK ATTTG TO THEIR UNN. HOWEVER, THE ADVANCE/ REPORTED THAT THERE WERE “NO TAKERS” AND THAT SOME UPL WOULD NOT PARTICIPATE CEREMONI BEE THEY SERVE FULL MARRIAGE EQUALY.BILLIE LOVE, JULIA GRANIELA, JENNA PANTOPHLET, SARA VALERIE BELLO, MANDI MYTH, TISHA SEATEN, ASHLEY PLSELL, AND QUANTIASHA WILLIAMS, OM LEFT, ATTEND STATEN ISLAND’S FIRST LGBT PROM THE STATEN ISLAND LGBT CENTER TOMPKSVILLE. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEJUNE 2010: LGBT CENTER OFFERS FIRST LGBT PROMSTATEN ISLAND’S LGBTQ+ YOUTH WERE ABLE TO HAVE A PROM OF THEIR OWN FOR THE FIRST TIME, THANKS TO THE LGBT CENTER. THE EVENT STILL EXISTS TODAY, HOSTED ANNUALLY MAY BY THE PRI CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND.LUIS AND RICHARD VIEIRA WERE ASSLTED AT A THE WHE CASTLE STAPLETON JULY 2010. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEJULY 2010: GAY MEN ASSLTED AT WHE CASTLEA MEETG WAS HELD AT THE LGBT CENTER AFTER LUIS AND RICHARD VIERIA WERE ASSLTED AT A WHE CASTLE STAPLETON. THE ASSLT WAS SCRIBED AS A “GAY BASHG ATTACK” BY THE ADVANCE/OCTOBER 2010: LGBTQ+ MUNY ALLOWED TO MARCH STATEN ISLAND COLUMB PARAFOR THE FIRST TIME, THE LGBT+ MUNY WAS ALLOWED TO MARCH THE ANNUAL STATEN ISLAND COLUMB PARA. GERARD MAWN OF CASTLETON CORNERS REMARKED, “I THK ’S VALLY IMPORTANT THAT THERE’S AN LGBT MUNY ON STATEN ISLAND.”DEMONSTRATORS RALLY AT HYLAN BOULEVARD AND NEW DORP LAN TO MAKE SURE ALL MOTORISTS AND PESTRIANS ARE AWARE THAT BULLYG OF ALL KDS NEEDS TO END. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)OCTOBER 2010: RALLY IS HELD AGAST HOMOPHOBIA AND BULLYGAFTER A TWO-WEEK SPAN THAT SAW A RUTGERS UNIVERSY LLEGE HMAN TAKE HIS OWN LIFE, A MAN BEATEN BY TWO STATEN ISLANRS A GAY BAR MANHATTAN, AND A HATE-FILLED GANG ATTACK ON HOMOSEXUALS THE BRONX, GABRIELLE CARLO AND MORE THAN 40 RINTS TOOK TO THE STREETS TO SAY THEY’VE HAD ENOUGH. THE GATHERERS HELD WHE SIGNS THAT READ PHRAS, SUCH AS “BE A BUDDY, NOT A BULLY,” “STOP ANTI-GAY BULLYG NOW!” AND “BEG WHO YOU ARE SHOULDN’T END YOUR LIFE.”JUNE 2011: NEW YORK LEGALIZ SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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QSINY: STATEN ISLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CLUB MORE THAN A

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HERE’S A TIMELE OF LGBTQ+ HISTORY ON STATEN ISLANDPUBLISHED ON JUN 17, 2022 GABRIELLE JIMENEZ OF GRYM HILL AND HOPE STEMAN-IACULLO OF MIDLAND BEACH, BOTH 18, ALSO MARCHED STATEN ISLAND'S FIRST PRI PARA. GABRIELLE SPOKE OUT ABOUT WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY TEEN: "KIDS YELL OUT 'F-----' OM THEIR RS." (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)BY REBEKA HUMBRECHT | FOR THE STATEN ISLAND ADVANCESTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- ALTHOUGH NEW YORKERS MAY ASSOCIATE GREENWICH VILLAGE OR PARK SLOPE WH NEW YORK CY’S CULTURAL HUBS FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, STATEN ISLAND HAS A LONG HISTORY OF PRI AND PA OF S OWN.DATG ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, THERE IS EVINCE THAT THE LGBTQ+ MUNY HAS BEEN LLG STATEN ISLAND HOME FOR SOME TIME. WHILE THE ISLAND STILL HAS MOUNTAS TO MOVE TO BE AN CLIVE SPACE, A LOOK BACK AT THE LOL HISTORY HELPS UNRSTAND HOW FAR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY HAS TLY E ON STATEN ISLAND.FROM THE ISLAND’S FIRST GAY BAR TO HATE CRIM TO THE FIRST SAME-SEX MARRIAG, TAKE A LOOK THROUGH THE TIMELE OF STATEN ISLAND’S LGBTQ+ HISTORY. THIS HISTORY IS NOT ALL-CLIVE, AND ’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE ADVANCE/ ARCHIV DO NOT REPRENT THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF A MUNY THAT HAS BEEN - AND STILL IS, TO AN EXTENT - CLOSETED FOR MANY YEARS.GRAHAM MARR RENAMED THE WYETH HOE AT 190 MEISNER AVE, WHERE HE AND HIS PARTNER NORMAN ROBERT MORRISON LIVED, TO "MARR LODGE." (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STAFF-SHOT1925: MARR LODGE OWNED BY SAME-SEX UPLEMARR LODGE IS A LSER-KNOWN HISTORIL LGBTQ+ SE ON STATEN ISLAND. IT BEME THE HOME OF PARTNERS GRAHAM MARR AND NORMAN ROBERT MORRISON 1925, ACRDG TO AN ADVANCE/ ARTICLE 2010. THE LIGHTHOE HILL MANOR IS PROTECTED BY THE NYC LANDMARKS PRERVATN COMMISSN.1950S: MAYFAIR BAR & GRILL IS ISLAND’S FIRST GAY BARMAYFAIR BAR & GRILL WAS ONE OF THE FIRST RERD GAY BARS ON THE ISLAND, LOTED AT 3 HYATT STREET, ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT. IT REMAED A POPULAR BAR WELL TO THE 1970S.1963: BEACH HAVEN BE HOME OF LBIAN SCENEBEACH HAVEN OPENED AROUND 1963 AND BY 1971 BEME A POPULAR LBIAN BAR ON THE ISLAND, ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT. LBIANS WERE MORE LIKELY TO EQUENT THE BAR THAN PREVLY MENTNED MAYFAIR BAR & GRILL, WHICH WAS MORE POPULAR AMONG GAY MEN.1971: RICHMOND COLLEGE TABLISH FIRST GAY ANIZATN“GAY LIB, RICHMOND COLLEGE” WAS A GROUP TABLISHED AT THE LLEGE, TODAY’S COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND (CSI), ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT.1972: STATEN ISLAND COMMUNY COLLEGE TABLISH FIRST GAY ANIZATNAN AD WAS PLACED THE STATEN ISLAND COMMUNY COLLEGE (SICC), TODAY’S CSI, FOR A MEETG OF “THE GAY PEOPLE AT SICC,” ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT. IT WOULD EVENTUALLY BEE THE “GAY LIBERATN CLUB.”A 1985 FILE PHOTO SHOWS WRER, LBIAN, FEMIST, AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AUDRE LOR. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE1972: AUDRE LOR MOV TO STATEN ISLANDAUDRE LOR IS A RENOWNED LBIAN POET WHO LIVED A HOME AT 207 ST. PL’S AVENUE UNTIL 1987.1973: FIRST LGBTQ+ URSE TGHT AT SICCARNIE KANTROWZ, A PROFSOR AT SICC, TGHT “HOMOSEXUALS & LERATURE,” WHICH VERED WALT WHEMAN TO RA MAE BROWN. IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST URS OF S KD THE UNTRY, ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT.1981: LAMBDA ASSOCIAT FOUNDLAMBDA ASSOCIAT OF STATEN ISLAND (LASI) WAS FOUND 1981 AND RPORATED 1983, ACRDG TO THE STATEN ISLAND MM. THEIR ANIZATN HAD A MISSN TO “STUTE AND PROMOTE A SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND EDUTNAL ASSOCIATN ON STATEN ISLAND FOR GAY MEN AND WOMEN.”1988: STATEN ISLAND AIDS TASK FORCE FOUNDTHE STATEN ISLAND AIDS TASK FORCE WAS FORMED 1988 AND WAS LOTED AT 25 HYATT STREET, ACRDG TO NYC LGBT HISTORIC S PROJECT. THIS ANIZATN WOULD PAVE THE WAY FOR TODAY’S PRI CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND.A SILENT SADNS AT MURR SCENE OF JAM ZAPPALORTI, A GAY MAN WHO WAS STABBED TO ATH CHARLTON. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE1990: JAM ZAPPALORTI MURREDTHE MOST NOTOR LGBTQ+ HATE CRIME ON STATEN ISLAND WAS THE MURR OF JAM ZAPPALORTI. HE WAS STABBED TO ATH BY TWO MEN AT HIS HOME CHARLTON ON JANUARY 22, 1990. PROTTS ENSUED THE FOLLOWG DAYS AND MONTHS, LLG FOR LGBTQ+ TOLERANCE AND CLN. HIS KILLER, MICHAEL TAYLOR, TOLD THORI THAT HE “DIDN’T LIKE QUEERS” AND THOUGHT ZAPPALORTI WOULD BE AN EASY TARGET FOR ROBBERY BEE HE WAS GAY.1990: ST. PATRICK’S PARA BANS LGBTQ+ ANIZATNS OM MARCHGTHIS YEAR, 1990, WAS THE FIRST ONE ON ADVANCE RERD THAT ISLAND LGBTQ+ ANIZATNS APPLIED AND WERE BARRED OM MARCHG STATEN ISLAND’S ST. PATRICK’S PARA. IN MARCH 2022, THE PRI CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND WAS STILL NIED OM PARTICIPATN THE PARA BY THE HOSTS, THE ANCIENT ORR OF HIBERNIANS.AN UNDATED FILE PHOTO SHOWS MCHELL GBLER, THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE ALICE AT HOE MM. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)1994: DIRECTOR OF ALICE ATEN HOE MM FIRED FOR PUTTG HER PHOTOGRAPHY LGBTQ+ EXHIBNAFTER SUBMTG ALICE ATEN’S PHOTOGRAPHY TO BE ED AN EXHIBN TLED “BEG VISIBLE: AN ILLTRATED HISTORY OF LBIAN AND GAY LIFE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERI,” THEN-DIRECTOR OF THE ALICE ATEN HOE MM, MCHELL GBLER, WAS FIRED OM HIS POSN AT THE MM, ACRDG TO AN TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK ARCHIVE PRERVATN PROJECT.THIS AN ANTI-GAY BILLBOARD WAS PHOTOGRAPHED ON BAY STREET NEAR THE RNER OF SLOSSON TERRACE ON MARCH 4, 2000. (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE2000: ANTI-GAY BILLBOARD POSTED ON BAY STREETON BAY STREET, NEAR SLOSSON TERRANCE, AN ANTI-GAY BILLBOARD WAS POSTED. THE BILLBOARD SPARKED A PRAYER VIGIL BY LGBTQ+ ACTIVISTS AND A RALLY AT BOROUGH HALL BY ISLANRS PROTTG THE REMOVAL OF THE SIGNS. REV. KRISTOPHER OKWEDY OF KEYWORD MISTRI PAID FOR TWO BILLBOARDS, WHICH HE WAS FORCED TO REMOVE BY THEN-BOROUGH PRINT GUY MOLARI. OKWEDY WOULD GO ON TO CLAIM THAT HIS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE VLATED BY MOLARI, A SE THAT WAS DISMISSED BY THE URT AND BROUGHT BACK BY THE REVEREND SEVERAL TIM THROUGH 2006. IN 2006, HE CLAIMED, “HOMOSEXUALS HAVE A PREFERRED POSN THE CY OVER CHRISTIANS,” WHILE HIS SE WAS AGA AWAG A LG.JAMIE GANGE, A SENR AT TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL THE 2003, STARTED THE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE AT HIS SCHOOL. (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE2003: THREE LOL SCHOOLS FORM GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCGAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC (GSAS) WERE FOUND AT CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL, STATEN ISLAND TECHNIL HIGH SCHOOL, AND TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. JAMIE GANGE, A THEN-RISG SENR AT TOTTENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, STARTED THE GSA AT HIS SCHOOL AFTER FEELG UNSAFE AS A TRANSGENR MALE AT SCHOOL, HE TOLD THE ADVANCE/ 2003.2004: “LBIAN LETTER” TARGETS SAVOA LETTER CLAIMG THAT THEN-SENATE NDIDATE DIANE SAVO WAS A LBIAN WAS WRTEN HER NAME AN ATTEMPT TO FAME HER NOVEMBER OF 2004. SAVO WOULD LATER ATTEMPT TO HAVE CRIMAL CHARG FILED AGAST THOSE WHO WROTE THE LETTER JANUARY 2005.GABRIELLE JIMENEZ OF GRYM HILL AND HOPE STEMAN-IACULLO OF MIDLAND BEACH, BOTH 18, ALSO MARCHED STATEN ISLAND'S FIRST PRI PARAGE. GABRIELLE SPOKE OUT ABOUT WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY TEEN: "KIDS YELL OUT 'F-----' OM THEIR RS." (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)2005: ISLAND’S FIRST PRI PARATHE FIRST PRI PARA ON STATEN ISLAND WAS HELD ON JUNE 4, 2005. WHAT STARTED AS A PEACEFUL EVENT END UP AN ARRT AFTER PLEASANT PLAS RINT MIKE VEACH HARASSED MARCHERS ALONG THE MIDLAND BEACH PROMENA. HE WOULD LATER BE CHARGED WH AGGRAVATED ASSLT.JULY 2006: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAW FAILS TO PASS THROUGH APPEALSON JULY 7, 2006 THE NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS LED THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS NOT PROTECTED UNR LAW. WAYNE STEMAN, WHO UNOFFICIALLY MARRIED HIS SCE PASSED LONGTIME PARTNER SALVATORE IACULLO 2003, TOLD THE ADVANCE/SILIVE 2007, “OUR HIGHT URT HAS ENSHRED DISCRIMATN BASED UPON FALLACI AND ANTIQUATED IAS ABOUT MARRIAGE.”NOVEMBER 2006: HH OPENS TOTTENVILLEHH OPENED ON NOVEMBER 16, 2006, WHICH THE ADVANCE/ SCRIBED AS “A GAY NIGHTCLUB THAT’S NOT BEG KEPT UNR WRAPS” ON THE ISLAND.FEBARY 2007: NEW JERSEY BEGS OFFERG CIVIL UNNS TO SAME-SEX UPLTHE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT NEW JERSEY WOULD BEG OFFERG CIVIL UNNS WAS MET WH BOTH EXCEMENT AND DISAPPOTMENT BY STATEN ISLANRS. ISLANRS MARTY FKLE AND MICHAEL PLAKE APPLIED FOR THEIR LICENSE AT THE SOUTH ORANGE TOWN HALL, EXPLAG THAT WAS “AS CLOSE TO MARRIAGE AS WE’RE GOG TO GET FOR RIGHT NOW.”A 2010 FILE PHOTO SHOWG ASSEMBLYMAN MATTHEW TONE TALKG ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE BEG A GAY MAN ON STATEN ISLAND. (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE PHOTO/HILTON FLOR)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEMARCH 2007: ISLAND ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIALMATT TONE, AN OPENLY GAY MAN, WAS ELECTED AS A MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY FOR THE 61ST DISTRICT, LOTED ON STATEN ISLAND’S NORTH SHORE. WHILE TONE RECENTLY SAID HE FACED SOME BLATANT DISCRIMATN DURG THE MPAIGN PROCS, HE TOLD THE ADVANCE/ THERE WERE ALSO “DOZENS OF STATEN ISLANRS AND STRANGERS, WHO HAD NOTHG BUT FORTG AND ENURAGG WORDS FOR ME. SENTIMENTS ALONG THE L OF, ‘YOUR URAGE ALONE HAS EARNED MY VOTE.”'MARCH 2007: SAME-SEX DOMTIC PARTNERS GIVEN MARRIAGE BENEFS BY THE CYFORMER MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG SIGNED A BILL THAT ENSURED THAT ALL SAME-SEX DOMTIC PARTNERS WOULD RECEIVE THE SAME PROSPECTIVE BENEFS AND SERVIC THAT NEW YORK CY OFFERED MARRIED UPL. THEN-CY COUNCIL SPEAKER, CHRIST QUN, SAID, “WE’RE ONLY FORTABLE WHEN ALL NEW YORK FAI ARE TREATED EQUAL TO THE GREATT GREE THE MUNICIPAL LAW N, AND THAT’S WHAT THIS BILL WILL DO.”OSR ASTA AND HIS PARTNER, PL INCHERCHERE, STAND ONT OF RACIST AND ANTI-GAY REMARKS WRTEN ON A BUILDG ACROSS THE STREET OM THEIR HOME. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEMAY 2007: RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS LEFT ON CLIFTON BUILDGA REMARK WAS LEFT ON THE DOOR OF A GARBER LUMBER CO. BUILDG AT 72 GREENFIELD AVENUE, WHICH PARTNERS OSRD ASTA AND PL INCHERCHERE WHO LIVED ACROSS THE STREET BELIEVE WERE TARGETED TOWARD THEM. THE SIGN READS: “MEXINS ARE PERVERTS AND NEED TO STOP G TO AMERI!”CY COUNCIL SPEAKER CHRISTE QUN GREETS FORMER ADVANCE WOMAN OF ACHIEVEMENT TERI RSO AT THE OPENG OF THE LGBT COMMUNY CENTER ON VICTORY BOULEVARD TOMPKSVILLE. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEMAY 2008: STATEN ISLAND LGBT CENTER OPENSTHE COMMUNY HEALTH ACTN OF STATEN ISLAND (CHASI) UNVEILED S NEW LGBT CENTER AT 25 VICTORY BLVD ON MAY 17, 2008. THE OPENG CENTER WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT CHASI WOULD HAVE ALL OF S LGBTQ+ SERVIC UNR ONE ROOF, AND LATER BEME THE FIRST HOME OF THE PRI CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND.SEPTEMBER 2008: PASSAG TRAVEL AGENCY OPENSERIC AVERSA AND ANTE SILVTRO OPENED A NEW DIVISN, PASSAG, AT MAJORS TRAVEL WT BRIGHTEN TAILORED TOWARD GAY, LBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR CTOMERS.RICHARD AND LOIS NITRA ARE PICTURED AT STATEN ISLAND'S FIRST GAY LIFE EXPO AT THE HILTON GARN INN. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)JANUARY 2009: ISLAND HOSTS FIRST GAY LIFE EXPOTHE GAY LIFE EXPO ME TO STATEN ISLAND FOR THE FIRST TIME ON JAN. 25, 2009. IT WAS HELD AT THE HILTON GARN INN BLOOMFIELD AND BEME AN ANNUAL EVENT ON THE ISLAND.SAS VELEZ SHOWS OFF HERTT-SHIRT OM Q-SINY, THE ONLY GAY BAR AND RTRANT ON THE ISLAND 2009. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)SI ADVANCEJUNE 2009: Q-SINY OPENSQ-SINY OPENED RIGHT AFTER THE PRI PARA JUNE 2009, BEG THE ISLAND’S ONLY GAY BAR AT THE TIME. THE RTRANT WAS OPENED BY JIM MCKERNAN AND HIS LONGTIME PARTNER RAY CARR MIDLAND BEACH.WAYNE STEMAN OF MIDLAND BEACH AND ROSE ELLITT OF ELTGVILLE HOLD A BANNER AT THE BOROUGH HALL VIGIL FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCENOVEMBER 2009: ISLANRS HOLD VIGIL ON EVE OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTEISLAND LGBTQ+ ANIZATNS, ACTIVISTS AND RINTS ME TOGETHER FOR A NDLELIGHT VIGIL ON THE STEPS OF BOROUGH HALL TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAG ON THE EVE OF A STATE LEGISLATURE VOTE ON THE ISSUE. THE NEXT DAY, THE LEGISLATURE VOTED AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAG.APRIL 2010: CSI TRODUC GENR-NTRAL BATHROOMSTO ENSURE A WELG, ALL-CLIVE MP, THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND RETROFTED ABOUT 20 OF S RTROOMS – ONE EACH BUILDG – TO BE GENR-NTRAL AND FAY-IENDLY, MAKG THE FIRST TNAL STUTN THE BOROUGH TO DO SO.JUNE 2010: CIVIL CEREMONI FOR DOMTIC PARTNERS BEGTHE CY BEGAN ALLOWG CIVIL CEREMONI FOR LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS JUNE 2010; PREVLY, SAME-SEX UPL WERE ONLY ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE PAPERWORK ATTTG TO THEIR UNN. HOWEVER, THE ADVANCE/ REPORTED THAT THERE WERE “NO TAKERS” AND THAT SOME UPL WOULD NOT PARTICIPATE CEREMONI BEE THEY SERVE FULL MARRIAGE EQUALY.BILLIE LOVE, JULIA GRANIELA, JENNA PANTOPHLET, SARA VALERIE BELLO, MANDI MYTH, TISHA SEATEN, ASHLEY PLSELL, AND QUANTIASHA WILLIAMS, OM LEFT, ATTEND STATEN ISLAND’S FIRST LGBT PROM THE STATEN ISLAND LGBT CENTER TOMPKSVILLE. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEJUNE 2010: LGBT CENTER OFFERS FIRST LGBT PROMSTATEN ISLAND’S LGBTQ+ YOUTH WERE ABLE TO HAVE A PROM OF THEIR OWN FOR THE FIRST TIME, THANKS TO THE LGBT CENTER. THE EVENT STILL EXISTS TODAY, HOSTED ANNUALLY MAY BY THE PRI CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND.LUIS AND RICHARD VIEIRA WERE ASSLTED AT A THE WHE CASTLE STAPLETON JULY 2010. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)STATEN ISLAND ADVANCEJULY 2010: GAY MEN ASSLTED AT WHE CASTLEA MEETG WAS HELD AT THE LGBT CENTER AFTER LUIS AND RICHARD VIERIA WERE ASSLTED AT A WHE CASTLE STAPLETON. THE ASSLT WAS SCRIBED AS A “GAY BASHG ATTACK” BY THE ADVANCE/OCTOBER 2010: LGBTQ+ MUNY ALLOWED TO MARCH STATEN ISLAND COLUMB PARAFOR THE FIRST TIME, THE LGBT+ MUNY WAS ALLOWED TO MARCH THE ANNUAL STATEN ISLAND COLUMB PARA. GERARD MAWN OF CASTLETON CORNERS REMARKED, “I THK ’S VALLY IMPORTANT THAT THERE’S AN LGBT MUNY ON STATEN ISLAND.”DEMONSTRATORS RALLY AT HYLAN BOULEVARD AND NEW DORP LAN TO MAKE SURE ALL MOTORISTS AND PESTRIANS ARE AWARE THAT BULLYG OF ALL KDS NEEDS TO END. (ADVANCE FILE PHOTO)OCTOBER 2010: RALLY IS HELD AGAST HOMOPHOBIA AND BULLYGAFTER A TWO-WEEK SPAN THAT SAW A RUTGERS UNIVERSY LLEGE HMAN TAKE HIS OWN LIFE, A MAN BEATEN BY TWO STATEN ISLANRS A GAY BAR MANHATTAN, AND A HATE-FILLED GANG ATTACK ON HOMOSEXUALS THE BRONX, GABRIELLE CARLO AND MORE THAN 40 RINTS TOOK TO THE STREETS TO SAY THEY’VE HAD ENOUGH. THE GATHERERS HELD WHE SIGNS THAT READ PHRAS, SUCH AS “BE A BUDDY, NOT A BULLY,” “STOP ANTI-GAY BULLYG NOW!” AND “BEG WHO YOU ARE SHOULDN’T END YOUR LIFE.”JUNE 2011: NEW YORK LEGALIZ SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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