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Contents:
- A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S
- WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
- BEFORE THE CASTRO, POLK GULCH WAS SAN FRANCIS'S GAYBORHOOD
- GAY COMMUNITY 1970S
- NIGHTCLUBBG: GAY CLUBBG ’70S LONDON
A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S
Before the Castro beme the gay mec for the entire Uned Stat, Polk Gulch, centered around Polk Street, was the hub for the LGBT , gay bars quietly existed other parts of the cy— the Tenrlo and North Beach—but Polk Gulch was the first neighborhood where gay-owned dayti... * gay bars 70's *
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WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
Hidn In Pla Sight: Let's Take A Look Back At The History of Dallas' Gay Bars of the 1970s Through Photos From That Era. * gay bars 70's *
There was a powerful work of olr succsful gay men like theatril agent Milton Goldman and entertament attorney Arnold Weissberger who troduced younger gay men to succsful showbiz typ at their betiful apartment on Sutton Place overlookg the East River. If he shone three tim, they lled the NYPD, who had a al wh the Mafia owners of the gay bars to arrt a quota of “faggots” each week. There was rampant homophobia by stud and work executiv and by some olr agents, notorly at CAA (though not Ron Meyer nor the Young Turks, several of whom were known to be gay).
Stan Kamen, then the most important agent at William Morris, was out and gay but very private. There emerged a whole layer of gay work executiv, wrers, stud executiv and agents, cludg Warner Bros.
The notor Art Murphy wrote about movie gross Daily Variety and was very openly gay — he was close to every movie executive town. Tommy Nutter, who was known for the betiful pipg on the cloth he signed for Mick and Bian Jagger, picked me up at a dis New York one night and I end up at Stigwood’s offic at 135 Central Park Wt, n by Peter Brown, who ed to be Tommy’s boyiend and who had worked for the very gay Beatl manager Brian Epste.
BEFORE THE CASTRO, POLK GULCH WAS SAN FRANCIS'S GAYBORHOOD
* gay bars 70's *
New York's Lost Gay BarsWe've known for many years that too many of our cherished gay bars and clubs are shutterg, fallg victim to risg rents and the ubiquy of apps like Grdr and Scff.
GAY COMMUNITY 1970S
GAY COMMUNITY IN THE 1970S. The 1970s marked an important perd the history of the Gay Communy of Cleveland. This article provis tails on var aspects of the muny the cril followg Stonewall., * gay bars 70's *
There's a walkg tour New York to memorate beloved gay bars and clubs that have closed down. Before the Castro beme the gay mec for the entire Uned Stat, Polk Gulch, centered around Polk Street, was the hub for the LGBT, gay bars quietly existed other parts of the cy— the Tenrlo and North Beach—but Polk Gulch was the first neighborhood where gay-owned daytime tablishments, such as rtrants and clothg stor, opened and tered directly to the LGBT muny. Christmas on Polk Strasse(via Prervg LGBT Historic S California/Facebook)A full-page ad the December 1968 issue of Vector magaze promoted gay-owned bs that were loted on Polk Street, which was sometim lled Polk Strasse (for street, German).
NIGHTCLUBBG: GAY CLUBBG ’70S LONDON
In the past few months, the Uned Stat has celebrated a few important ton the history of civil rights for gay Amerins: the signatn of the Stonewall Inn New York Cy as a Natnal Monument to Gay Rights and the first anniversary of the historic Supreme Court cisn to legalize same-sex marriage all 50 stat. Before the days of polil activism, beg gay was somethg one often kept to onelf or shared only wh a close circle of iends.