Brick thrown at an NYC gay bar is beg vtigated as a hate crime

Contents:

• ‘GENERO AND RG’ GAY BAR PATRON DI AFTER BEG PUNCHED BY BOUNCER
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
• MURAL TO BE UNVEILED AT HISTORIC GREEN BAY GAY BAR DURG WEEKEND OF PRI
• BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
• WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• A (MOSTLY) GAY, CELEBRY-FILLED PARTY RETURNS TO THE BOWERY

‘GENERO AND RG’ GAY BAR PATRON DI AFTER BEG PUNCHED BY BOUNCER

Eric Pope was punched and killed outsi a Philalphia gay bar.

A bouncer at a gay bar Philalphia is facg murr charg after punchg and killg a gay patron Eric Pope. Police said that on 16 April, Pope was visg the Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar, an LGBT+ venue the cy’s “Gayborhood“, but was rted outsi jt before 1am “for beg toxited”, acrdg to The Standard-Tim. Lol media has reported that the gay bar clarified Frye was not directly employed by them, but through a private secury pany, and that they were operatg wh the police vtigatn.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

After gay & lbian bar Othersi Lounge was bombed by a terrorist Atlanta, her doors re-opened fiance of the attack. On Febary 21, 1997, the Othersi Lounge was bombed by a domtic terrorist named Eric Rudolph who sought to harm gays and lbians who were out and proud.

Owners of the Atlanta gay bar, Beverly McMahon and Dana Ford, refed to back down om fear and quickly re-opened their bar fiance of the terrorism that they and the greater queer muny faced. The gay nightclub hosted drag queen events and themed nights, such as jazz, hip-hop, and untry.

The Othersi Lounge served as a safe haven for lbians, gay men, bisexuals, and trans people thrown out of their hom or otherwise disowned by fay members and iends for beg who they are. The holidays are often a particularly difficult time for the LGBTQ muny, pecially durg an era where homophobia ran rampant and few laws existed to protect gays and lbians om discrimatn. When cidg to open the gay bar, McMahon poted to the importance of providg a space where everyone felt safe and accepted.

NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

In an terview wh Geia Voice, she said, “It was very important to me early on that I would have a bs, no matter what would be, where everyone was wele: gay, straight, Black, whe.

At least while at the Othersi Lounge, gays, lbians, bisexuals, and transgenr people uld worry ls about the polil climate and jt be themselv.

When Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell ed Memrie Wells-Crwell’s name a subsequent prs nference, she was fired om her real tate job for beg gay. Some regulars returned to their favore Atlanta gay bar, but many did not. Bomber Eric Rudolph’s Anti-Gay & Anti-Abortn Extremism.

MURAL TO BE UNVEILED AT HISTORIC GREEN BAY GAY BAR DURG WEEKEND OF PRI

Eric Rudolph fostered extreme anti-gay and anti-abortn beliefs to adulthood, and chose those groups as targets of his terrorism.

Ford says she is proud of what the Othersi Lounge reprented to LGBTQ Atlantans: “I hope we ma the impact wh the muny to empower and strengthen and be part of the fabric of the gay muny … y was our savgs; y was our retirement. Today, there are a uple of lbian bars Atlanta, as well as many gay bars.

BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME

But wh the anti-LGBTQ actns of the prev printial admistratn and a rise of whe supremacist terrorism 2021, safety for gays, lbians, bisexuals, and transgenr people is far om guaranteed. It n be easy to fet that one of Ameri’s largt mass shootgs history happened at a gay nightclub. Homophobic hate crim Ameri are on the rise.

WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?

More stori: Dyk on Bik & Gay Motorcycle Clubs the U. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. The Wt Village bar Juli' was the se of a 1966 "sip-" prott, when activists monstrated agast the closure of bars that served gay people. New York Cy's olst gay bar, Juli' Manhattan, is officially a landmark.

In 1966, Juli' was the se of a "sip-, " when three activists protted the closure of bars that served gay people. Authori are expected to brg crimal charg agast a bouncer who allegedly punched a man outsi of a Philalphia gay bar earlier this month, knockg the man unnsc.

A (MOSTLY) GAY, CELEBRY-FILLED PARTY RETURNS TO THE BOWERY

McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was bil and ugly, filled wh “every gay slur you uld thk of, ” Bach said. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.