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SAN FRANCIS’S OLST GAY BAR TO CLOSE S DOORS

As the world regniz the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, we sent photographers to three of the cy's olst gay bars — one on the South Si, one on the North Si, and one right between. * oldest gay bar in usa *

This New Orleans bar proclaims self the olst nng gay bar the Uned Stat. It’s more upsle than gay bars are today, but has been liverg brotherly love for s to fans of piano bars and good cktails. Stay: Check to nearby Fairfield Inn by Marrtt; ’s close to Woody’s, another favore gay bar Philalphia.

This spot Wt Palm Beach is Florida’s olst gay bar. In bs sce 1968, this Milwkee bar is the longt operatg gay bar the whole of Wisns. This Oakland spot claims to be the olst nng gay bar the U.

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Most visors are faiar wh Chigo’s Boystown (now North Halsted) neighborhood, but this bar on Chigo’s Southsi has been quietly terg to a largely gay and Black clientele sce the 1960s.

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In fact, ’s one of the natn’s olst operatg Black-owned gay bars. The cy lled the bar “one of the cy’s most signifint s of LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer) history” the news release. Juli’ was the se of the 1966 “Sip-, ” a prott agast homophobic discrimatn – although at the time, the bar wasn’t an explicly LGBT space.

Four men named Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, John Timmons, and Randy Wicker staged the event to prott the persecutn of gay men for drkg public, acrdg to the Natnal Park Service. So bars often refed to serve clients who they knew were gay. At Juli’, the men announced they were gay – and the bartenr refed to serve them, sayg was illegal.

“Gays uld legally drk a bar. And today, openly scrib self as a gay bar on s social media. “As a gay man who enjoys untls eedoms that were unimagable their time, I owe enormo bt to the activists who ma Juli’ Bar the se of their prott.

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Jean Lafte's ed to be a hangout for pirat and other rriers of ntraband -- and then a gay bar the 1950s -- before beg a nice, quiet ltle pub on Ameri's most r street.

For Black, Gay Chigoans, It’s Always Been Jeffery Pub. In the first stallment of our seri on the cy’s olst gay bars, we vis the South Shore stalwart — Chigo’s only black-owned tablishment of s kd.

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