River Edge gay nightclub Club Feathers starts GoFundMe to avoid closure

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• THE BEST NEW JERSEY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW JERSEY
• THE BEST JERSEY SHORE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JERSEY SHORE
• LIQUOR LAWS ONCE TARGETED GAY BARS. NOW, ONE STATE IS APOLOGIZG.
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•  NEW JERSEY LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAYT PLAC IN NEW JERSEY FOR 2020
• THIS ULD BE LAST LL FOR CLUB FEATHERS, NEW JERSEY'S OLST GAY NIGHTCLUB, OWNER SAYS

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Paradise18Gay BarsBy LillianGreat place to rt and work on your tan! AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTNew Jersey’s attorney general apologized for s-old state polici that shuttered bars for allowg gay patrons to Samuel Berg/Berg Picture Collectn, via The Newark Public LibraryOne tavern Newark was shut down for a month 1939 after a man “ma up wh rouge, lipstick, masra and fgernail polish” asked for a drk a “very effemate voice, ” rerds Paterson, N.

”And 1956 Asbury Park, which was then, as is today, a hub of gay life on the Jersey Shore, a bar was ced for servg men who “rocked and swayed their posterrs a mainly fashn. ”From the end of Prohibn 1933 through 1967, when a State Supreme Court lg fally outlawed the practice, New Jersey, like many other stat, wield s liquor laws like bludgeons to shutter gay bars.

“For 35 — probably more — years, this had a chillg effect on bars lettg gay patrons, ” Mr. Rints follows other moments of reckong over the abe of a populatn that was routely and unfairly sgled out by the years ago, the missner of the New York Police Department apologized for a vlent 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn, a clash that galvanized the gay rights movement.

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Grewal’s acknowledgment of systemic discrimatn that dat to an era well before the morn gay rights movement was seen as groundbreakg by historians and gay rights anizatns.

“The targetg of gay bars was a particularly sid thg bee was for gay people the only place they uld be themselv, ” he add. ” Margoli Roadsi Ameri photograph archive, via Library of CongrsThe practice of penalizg taverns for servg gay patrons, who at the time were maly men, was wispread across the untry durg the early to mid-20th century, when gay sex was self a crime, said Gee Chncey, a history profsor at Columbia Universy and the thor of “Gay New York.

Yet was still mon for saloons and taverns to refe service to gay patrons, who were seen as herently disorrly. Three years before Stonewall, a “sip ” prott at Juli’ the Wt Village of Manhattan that challenged the discrimatory policy was nsired a semal moment the stggle for gay addn to apologizg and releasg the agency rerds, New Jersey will also symbolilly vate the penalti agast the bars, none of which are believed to still be bs.

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A plaque was also beg stalled Tuday a ceremony near the se of what was once the Paddock Bar Asbury Park, which advertised self as “the gayt spot town” and was closed after a seri of raids.

“This part of our muny’s history is important to tell, ” said Christian Fro, executive director of Garn State Equaly, the state’s largt gay rights group. ”Until 1967, New Jersey’s liquor laws barred licensed tablishments om providg service to “apparent homosexuals” or “female impersonators.

Prol, the first openly gay print of New Jersey’s bar associatn, began rearchg the practice for a scholarly article.

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J., lost s liquor license 1955 after spectors nclud that owners “suffered female impersonators” on eight DocumentBill Sger, a New Jersey lawyer and gay rights activist who beme known as the “angel of ath” for wrg athbed wills for men dyg of AIDS, said the attorney general’s actn was ldable — but Sger said any te reckong should also clu expungg crimal rerds of same-sex upl arrted on charg of lewd behavr while cisg parks and other public areas the 1970s and 1980s.

Elianel Clton for The New York TimCarol Torre began operatg bars and a hotel popular wh lbians Asbury Park about a after New Jersey’s urts abolished the liquor laws that targeted gay patrons.

She said the hurdl she faced eventually had more to do wh the sometim rpt back-room cy polics than an overt bias agast homosexualy. Torre, 75, said the mararie and secury gay bars provid nnot be overstated. Torre ma the slurs and disdaful referenc to gay patrons, disvered over the last two months state rerds, even more revoltg, said Jam B.

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More about Tracey TullyA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 15 of the New York edn wh the headle: New Jersey Apologiz For Closur Of Gay Bars. is the place on the web for Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr people New Jersey.

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