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Contents:

• THE MYSTERY PHOTOS OF A 1957 GAY WEDDG
• TIE-THE-KNOT TUDAY: BT PHILALPHIA GAY-FRIENDLY WEDDG VENDORS, SO FAR
• 1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
• MAC FIGHTS GAY MARRIAGE
• GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®
• “IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’S” ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS ABOUT UPG “GAY MARRIAGE” EPISO
• MAC FIGHTS GAY MARRIAGE

THE MYSTERY PHOTOS OF A 1957 GAY WEDDG

Historic s, popular neighborhoods, and LGBTQ+-owned bars and rtrants Philalphia's Gayborhood and beyond... The Cy of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affectn hosted the untry’s first major monstratn for gay rights, the Annual Remrs, 1965.

And today, Philly visors n easily explore s where LGBTQ+ history was ma and where queer life ntu to thrive, pecially the cy’s Gayborhood and durg annual events like Philly Pri 365. The Gayborhood.

TIE-THE-KNOT TUDAY: BT PHILALPHIA GAY-FRIENDLY WEDDG VENDORS, SO FAR

The center of Philalphia’s gay rintial life and culture sce World War II, the blocks between 11th and Broad streets and Pe and Chtnut streets earned their nickname — the “Gayborhood”— durg an October Outft event 1995. You have your choice of fabulo entertament and diversns as the bars and nightclubs of the Gayborhood e alive each night.

Shoppg the Gayborhood. Sce 2015, the brilliant rabow crosswalks at the tersectn of 13th and Loct Streets have served as an sential Gayborhood landmark.

Take a guid tour through the Gayborhood and learn more about the cy’s queer history wh help om Beyond the Bell Tour. The group’s LGBTQ and Trans History tours reunt the stori of Gay Liberatn Front – Philalphia founr Kiyoshi Kuromiya, explore morn history and current social issu the neighborhood, and stop at important muny s like the Attic Youth Center, which supports LGBTQ+ youth experiencg homelsns. The Gayborhood got a h new mural at the start of Pri Month 2021 when muralist Ash Ryan fished this three-story-tall tribute to pop star Lil Nas X.

1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE

Historic Gayborhood Markers. Get your history straight wh historic LGBTQ+ markers sprkled throughout the Gayborhood, cludg:. In 1965, the Universy of Pennsylvania expelled Fryer om his psychiatric rincy program on the basis of his homosexualy, which was then classified as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA).

In 1972, Fryer, a faculty member at the Temple Universy School of Medice, offered an electrifyg anonymo ttimony that rulted the APA’s 1973 classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Philalphia Gay News Marker: This marker stands ont of the first office of the Philalphia Gay News, one of the natn’s most award-wng weekly newspapers.

Inpennce Hall was the se of the untry’s earlit anized recurrg gay rights monstratns, begng July 4, 1965. Meetg atten planned the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights.

MAC FIGHTS GAY MARRIAGE

3rd Street to the gay activists who found the cy’s first LGBTQ+ ffeehoe. Like most gay men the first half of the 20th century, Locke remaed closeted throughout his life.

A pneer the LGBTQ+ rights movement, Gtgs, a Philalphia rint om age 18 and a lifetime activist, eded The Ladr, the natn’s first lbian magaze; -anized the Annual Remrs at Inpennce Hall (see above) and led charg both to promote posive LGBTQ+ lerature public librari and to change the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Across Broad Street, a sign at 13th and Loct streets the Gayborhood clar the thoroughfare Barbara Gtgs Way.

GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®

It’s where radil gay llective Gazoo found Philalphia’s Gay Liberatn Front and where bisexual blu sger Bsie Smh performed at the Royal Theatre, an early 20th-century Black-owned cultural center. Today, the street’s known for s Magic Garns, cheteak shops and hangouts, cludg dive bar extraordaire Bob & Barbara’s Lounge, home of one of Philly’s bt-loved drag shows; the punk art LGBTQ+ haven Tattooed Mom; and the eclectic, gay-owned boutique shop Workshop Unrground. Image source, ONE Archiv at USCDes before gay marriage beme legal anywhere the US, same-sex upl were mtg themselv to each other ont of iends and loved on.

The pictur appear to pict a gay weddg, nearly 50 years before same-sex marriage was legal anywhere the US and almost 60 years before beme a ferally-regnised, a tr of gay producers and wrers are tryg to intify the grooms to learn their story and to fd out whether a pharmacy employee balked at providg the snaps bee they objected to their wrers are documentg their efforts a realy show The Mystery of the 1957 Gay Weddg Photos. And more gay history that's been buried, " he says.

“IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’S” ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS ABOUT UPG “GAY MARRIAGE” EPISO

The US Supreme Court didn't regnise the right for gay people to marry the person of their choice until 2015, 11 years after Massachetts did source, ONE Archiv at USC"We don't know how mon or unmon was for upl to hold ceremoni to marry each other [bee] there is so ltle photographic or film rerd of how people actually lived, " says Eric Marc, host of the Makg Gay History podst. Image source, ONE Archiv at USCImage ptn, Weddg guts at the mystery weddgSeveral years before the weddg took place, Print Dwight Eisenhower signed an executive orr banng gays om workg for the feral ernment. In 1952, The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn classified homosexualy as a "socpathic personaly disturbance" the first edn of s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM), the listg of known psychiatric disorrs.

After nsirable lobbyg by activists, the APA removed homosexualy om the send edn of the DSM Stonewall Rts, nsired to be the birth of the morn gay rights movement, had happened a few years before that 1969 - 12 years after the source, ONE Archiv at USCIt's not jt the passage of time that will hr the search for the grooms.

MAC FIGHTS GAY MARRIAGE

"If the uple is ever intified, they would certaly add another chapter the history of gay rights for dog somethg extraordary that is now beg creasgly on this story. One of our favore new lumns, Tie-the-Knot Tuday, has featured a host of Philalphia-area gay upl who have shared their marriage stori wh our rears. We thought was ftg to pture some of the bt vendors, the venu, food, and florists that our upl selected as beg gay-iendly and fun.