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- THE UPROAR, UNCENSORED STORY OF WOODSTOCK, THE GAY MAN WHO MA IT HAPPEN
- CAN WE TALK ABOUT...? THE GAY GUY WHO MA WOODSTOCK HAPPEN 50 YEARS AGOELLT TIBER HAD A VERY SPECIAL SUMMER 1969. HE WAS NOT ONLY AT STONEWALL, BUT ALSO HELPED FACILATE THE MOST FAMO MIC FTIVAL HISTORY.BY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEAUGT 16, 2019/10:58 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3600PX;WIDTH:2400PX;}ANDREAS BRANCH/PATRICK MCMULLAN VIA GETTY IMAGLOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 17: ELLT TIBER ATTENDS 21ST ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS AT HYATT REGENCY CENTURY PLAZA HOTEL ON APRIL 17, 2010 LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY ANDREAS BRANCH/PATRICK MCMULLAN VIA GETTY IMAG)BY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEAUGT 16, 2019 / 10:58 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"CAN WE TALK ABOUT...? THE GAY GUY WHO MA WOODSTOCK HAPPEN 50 YEARS AGO","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-08-16T14:58:59.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-08-16T14:58:59.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LTER FABIAN BRATHWAE","KEYWORDS":"CAN WE TALK ABOUT...?"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CAN WE TALK ABOUT...? IS A WEEKLY SERI REALLY PULLG FOR GRACE AND KAREN TO IRON SH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WOODSTOCK HAS LONG BEEN RIGNED TO THE FADG MEMORY OF STRAIGHT WHE BABY BOOMERS AS THE LAST GASP OF THEIR IALISTIC YOUTH. OVER THE URSE OF THREE DAYS MID-AUGT 1969, ROCK GODS LIKE JIMI HENDRIX, JANIS JOPL, THE WHO, AND THE GRATEFUL DEAD PERFORMED FOR THE UNTERCULTURE SET THAT HAD WHOLLY EMBRACED THEIR SOUND ON A DAIRY FARM BETHEL, N.Y. BUT WHOUT THE HELP OF ELLT TIBER, A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO SECURED THE FARM FOR THE FTIVAL, WOODSTOCK—WHICH TURNS 50 THIS WEEK—MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED AT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TIBER DIED 2016, BUT BEFORE THAT HE PENNED TWO MEMOIRS ABOUT THE LEGENDARY FTIVAL, ONE 1994 AND ANOTHER 2007, THE LATTER BEG THE BASIS FOR ANG LEE'S 2009 FILM TAKG WOODSTOCK, WHICH TIBER IS PORTRAYED BY EDIAN DEMETRI {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A FORMER YHIVA STUNT OM BROOKLYN, TIBER HELPED N HIS PARENTS' BETHEL MOTEL, EL MONA, ON THE WEEKENDS AND SERVED AS PRINT OF THE SMALL UPSTATE NEW YORK TOWN'S CHAMBER OF MERCE. DURG THE WEEK HE WORKED AS AN TERR RATOR MANHATTAN, WHERE AT NIGHT HE WOULD EQUENT THE GAY BARS, A HAB THAT TWO MONTHS BEFORE PLACED HIM SQUARELY ANOTHER WATERSHED MOMENT OF HISTORY: THE STONEWALL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TIBER'S SIGN REER TOOK A H WHEN HE WAS CHARGED WH RATG A NIGHTCLUB OWNER'S BIRTHDAY PARTY ON A CISE SHIP. OUT ME THE RENTED PALM TRE AND "A BEVY OF MCLE BOYS VERED GOLD BODY PAT," BUT BEFORE YOU ULD SAY, "HEY, DADDY, WHERE ARE THE QUAALUS?," TIBER FOUND HIMSELF HUNKERED DOWN WH NOT JT A GAY IN, BUT THE GAY IN. THE NEW YORK TIM REUNTED THE CINT HIS OBUARY:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DURG THE CISE, A FIGHT BROKE OUT AT THE BAR, THEN SPREAD TO THE DG ROOM AND BEYOND. MR. TIBER WERED BEHD AN OVERTURNED TABLE WH JUDY GARLAND, AN IDOL OF HIS SCE CHILDHOOD. THE PALM TRE END UP THE RIVER. LEFT HOLDG THE BILL, MR. TIBER RETREATED TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BY THE TIME ANIZERS OF WHAT WOULD BEE THE WOODSTOCK FTIVAL WENT SNIFFG AROUND TOWN, JUDY WAS AD AND THE FIGHT FOR GAY CIVIL RIGHTS HAD BEGUN. THOSE ANIZERS, HOWEVER, EXISTED A WORLD APART, AND THEY JT WANTED TO FD A SPOT TO BRG THEIR PEACE, LOVE, AND ROCK 'N' {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WALLKILL, N.Y., WAS UNRPONSIVE TO THE IA OF LONG-HAIRED, UNWASHED, HIPPIE KIDS VADG THEIR TRANQUIL HAMLET. BUT AS PRINT OF THE BETHEL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, TIBER WAS THE POSN TO APPROVE THE FTIVAL PERM, AND OFFERED UP EL MONA AS HQ FOR THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THOUGH WOODSTOCK IS OFTEN NSIRED A STRAIGHT DOMA, THE HIPPI' MANTRA OF EE LOVE SEEMED TO EXTEND BEYOND TRADNAL LABELS. IN FACT, ONE OF THE MOST INIC IMAG OF THE FLOWER-POWER '60S FEATUR AN 18-YEAR-OLD QUEER MAN NAMED GEE HARRIS GREETG RIFL AT THE 1967 MARCH ON THE PENTAGON WH RNATNS.BERNIE BOSTON/THE WASHGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGARLINGTON, VA - OCTOBER 21 1967: GEE HARRIS STICKS RNATNS GUN BARRELS DURG AN ANTIWAR MONSTRATOR AT PENTAGON 1967. THEY TRIED FLOWER POWER ON MPS BLOCKG THE PENTAGON BUILDG ARLGTON, VA ON OCTOBER 21, 1967. (PHOTO BY BERNIE BOSTON/THE WASHGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HARRIS, PERFORMG UNR THE NAME HIBISC, WAS A -FOUNR OF THE PSYCHELIC GAY LIBERATN THEATER LLECTIVE THE COCKETT, WHICH FORMED 1969 SAN FRANCIS, THE NEX OF BOTH THE HIPPIE AND GAY MOVEMENTS. TIBER, FOR HIS PART, CERTALY BENEFED OM THE SEXUAL AND QUEER LIBERATN THAT PROLIFERATED THE AIR THE SUMMER OF '{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THOSE SIX WEEKS? WOW. THE PEOPLE WERE SO ENRICHG TO MY LIFE,” TIBER SAID OF ANIZG WOODSTOCK A 2008 TERVIEW WH THE MIAMI HERALD. "THEY OPENED UP WHOLE NEW WORLDS TO ME. I DIDN’T FEEL FAT, I DIDN’T FEEL UGLY. IT ENABLED ME TO MEET ALL KDS OF PEOPLE, TO ENJOY MYSELF. I GOT ED TO THAT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}CAN WE TALK ABOUT...?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
THE UPROAR, UNCENSORED STORY OF WOODSTOCK, THE GAY MAN WHO MA IT HAPPEN
All of that asi, Ellt was livg a closeted life as a homosexual mutg between hom Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and the Catskills. As he tells the story his 1994 book, Knock on Woodstock: The Uproar, Uncensored Story of Woodstock, the Gay Man Who Ma It Happen, and How He Earned his Ticket to Free, Elltt was at the Stonewall rts June 1969 and he brought that activism wh him back to the Catskills that summer. But whout the help of Ellt Tiber, a gay rights activist who secured the farm for the ftival, Woodstock—which turns 50 this week—may not have happened at died 2016, but before that he penned two memoirs about the legendary ftival, one 1994 and another 2007, the latter beg the basis for Ang Lee's 2009 film Takg Woodstock, which Tiber is portrayed by edian Demetri Mart.
Durg the week he worked as an terr rator Manhattan, where at night he would equent the gay bars, a hab that two months before placed him squarely another watershed moment of history: the Stonewall 's sign reer took a h when he was charged wh ratg a nightclub owner's birthday party on a cise ship. Out me the rented palm tre and "a bevy of mcle boys vered gold body pat, " but before you uld say, "Hey, Daddy, where are the quaalus?, " Tiber found himself hunkered down wh not jt a gay in, but the gay in.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT...? THE GAY GUY WHO MA WOODSTOCK HAPPEN 50 YEARS AGOELLT TIBER HAD A VERY SPECIAL SUMMER 1969. HE WAS NOT ONLY AT STONEWALL, BUT ALSO HELPED FACILATE THE MOST FAMO MIC FTIVAL HISTORY.BY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEAUGT 16, 2019/10:58 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3600PX;WIDTH:2400PX;}ANDREAS BRANCH/PATRICK MCMULLAN VIA GETTY IMAGLOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 17: ELLT TIBER ATTENDS 21ST ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS AT HYATT REGENCY CENTURY PLAZA HOTEL ON APRIL 17, 2010 LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY ANDREAS BRANCH/PATRICK MCMULLAN VIA GETTY IMAG)BY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEAUGT 16, 2019 / 10:58 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"CAN WE TALK ABOUT...? THE GAY GUY WHO MA WOODSTOCK HAPPEN 50 YEARS AGO","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-08-16T14:58:59.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-08-16T14:58:59.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LTER FABIAN BRATHWAE","KEYWORDS":"CAN WE TALK ABOUT...?"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CAN WE TALK ABOUT...? IS A WEEKLY SERI REALLY PULLG FOR GRACE AND KAREN TO IRON SH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WOODSTOCK HAS LONG BEEN RIGNED TO THE FADG MEMORY OF STRAIGHT WHE BABY BOOMERS AS THE LAST GASP OF THEIR IALISTIC YOUTH. OVER THE URSE OF THREE DAYS MID-AUGT 1969, ROCK GODS LIKE JIMI HENDRIX, JANIS JOPL, THE WHO, AND THE GRATEFUL DEAD PERFORMED FOR THE UNTERCULTURE SET THAT HAD WHOLLY EMBRACED THEIR SOUND ON A DAIRY FARM BETHEL, N.Y. BUT WHOUT THE HELP OF ELLT TIBER, A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO SECURED THE FARM FOR THE FTIVAL, WOODSTOCK—WHICH TURNS 50 THIS WEEK—MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED AT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TIBER DIED 2016, BUT BEFORE THAT HE PENNED TWO MEMOIRS ABOUT THE LEGENDARY FTIVAL, ONE 1994 AND ANOTHER 2007, THE LATTER BEG THE BASIS FOR ANG LEE'S 2009 FILM TAKG WOODSTOCK, WHICH TIBER IS PORTRAYED BY EDIAN DEMETRI {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A FORMER YHIVA STUNT OM BROOKLYN, TIBER HELPED N HIS PARENTS' BETHEL MOTEL, EL MONA, ON THE WEEKENDS AND SERVED AS PRINT OF THE SMALL UPSTATE NEW YORK TOWN'S CHAMBER OF MERCE. DURG THE WEEK HE WORKED AS AN TERR RATOR MANHATTAN, WHERE AT NIGHT HE WOULD EQUENT THE GAY BARS, A HAB THAT TWO MONTHS BEFORE PLACED HIM SQUARELY ANOTHER WATERSHED MOMENT OF HISTORY: THE STONEWALL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TIBER'S SIGN REER TOOK A H WHEN HE WAS CHARGED WH RATG A NIGHTCLUB OWNER'S BIRTHDAY PARTY ON A CISE SHIP. OUT ME THE RENTED PALM TRE AND "A BEVY OF MCLE BOYS VERED GOLD BODY PAT," BUT BEFORE YOU ULD SAY, "HEY, DADDY, WHERE ARE THE QUAALUS?," TIBER FOUND HIMSELF HUNKERED DOWN WH NOT JT A GAY IN, BUT THE GAY IN. THE NEW YORK TIM REUNTED THE CINT HIS OBUARY:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DURG THE CISE, A FIGHT BROKE OUT AT THE BAR, THEN SPREAD TO THE DG ROOM AND BEYOND. MR. TIBER WERED BEHD AN OVERTURNED TABLE WH JUDY GARLAND, AN IDOL OF HIS SCE CHILDHOOD. THE PALM TRE END UP THE RIVER. LEFT HOLDG THE BILL, MR. TIBER RETREATED TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BY THE TIME ANIZERS OF WHAT WOULD BEE THE WOODSTOCK FTIVAL WENT SNIFFG AROUND TOWN, JUDY WAS AD AND THE FIGHT FOR GAY CIVIL RIGHTS HAD BEGUN. THOSE ANIZERS, HOWEVER, EXISTED A WORLD APART, AND THEY JT WANTED TO FD A SPOT TO BRG THEIR PEACE, LOVE, AND ROCK 'N' {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WALLKILL, N.Y., WAS UNRPONSIVE TO THE IA OF LONG-HAIRED, UNWASHED, HIPPIE KIDS VADG THEIR TRANQUIL HAMLET. BUT AS PRINT OF THE BETHEL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, TIBER WAS THE POSN TO APPROVE THE FTIVAL PERM, AND OFFERED UP EL MONA AS HQ FOR THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THOUGH WOODSTOCK IS OFTEN NSIRED A STRAIGHT DOMA, THE HIPPI' MANTRA OF EE LOVE SEEMED TO EXTEND BEYOND TRADNAL LABELS. IN FACT, ONE OF THE MOST INIC IMAG OF THE FLOWER-POWER '60S FEATUR AN 18-YEAR-OLD QUEER MAN NAMED GEE HARRIS GREETG RIFL AT THE 1967 MARCH ON THE PENTAGON WH RNATNS.BERNIE BOSTON/THE WASHGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGARLINGTON, VA - OCTOBER 21 1967: GEE HARRIS STICKS RNATNS GUN BARRELS DURG AN ANTIWAR MONSTRATOR AT PENTAGON 1967. THEY TRIED FLOWER POWER ON MPS BLOCKG THE PENTAGON BUILDG ARLGTON, VA ON OCTOBER 21, 1967. (PHOTO BY BERNIE BOSTON/THE WASHGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HARRIS, PERFORMG UNR THE NAME HIBISC, WAS A -FOUNR OF THE PSYCHELIC GAY LIBERATN THEATER LLECTIVE THE COCKETT, WHICH FORMED 1969 SAN FRANCIS, THE NEX OF BOTH THE HIPPIE AND GAY MOVEMENTS. TIBER, FOR HIS PART, CERTALY BENEFED OM THE SEXUAL AND QUEER LIBERATN THAT PROLIFERATED THE AIR THE SUMMER OF '{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THOSE SIX WEEKS? WOW. THE PEOPLE WERE SO ENRICHG TO MY LIFE,” TIBER SAID OF ANIZG WOODSTOCK A 2008 TERVIEW WH THE MIAMI HERALD. "THEY OPENED UP WHOLE NEW WORLDS TO ME. I DIDN’T FEEL FAT, I DIDN’T FEEL UGLY. IT ENABLED ME TO MEET ALL KDS OF PEOPLE, TO ENJOY MYSELF. I GOT ED TO THAT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}CAN WE TALK ABOUT...?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
Tiber retreated to the time anizers of what would bee the Woodstock ftival went sniffg around town, Judy was ad and the fight for gay civil rights had begun. In fact, one of the most inic imag of the flower-power '60s featur an 18-year-old queer man named Gee Harris greetg rifl at the 1967 March on the Pentagon wh, performg unr the name Hibisc, was a -founr of the psychelic gay liberatn theater llective The Cockett, which formed 1969 San Francis, the nex of both the hippie and gay movements. The Hudson Valley is a great place to be gay—the annual LGBTQ pri paras draws crowds the thoands every year.
But the queer muny needs more than one day per year to celebrate their pri and sometim you want to go where everybody knows you’re gay. So if you’re on the hunt for ol, clive, and safe spac to live your bt gay life, try this curated list of queer spac and events to enjoy some good gay pany all year long.
For somethg a ltle different, Pansy Club offers the perfect (gay) marriage of nsistency and variety.