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In 1962 the State Liquor Authory ncelled the licens of three gay bars Rochter, NY — Patsy’s Grill licensed to Pasquale and Kathere Lippa at 278 Allen Street, Dick’s Tavern licensed to Domic Gttadria at 63 State Street and Mart’s Rtrant licensed to Harry Mart at 12 Front Street — acrdg to articl om the Rochter Democrat and charg agast the three bars were announced January 1962 followg a year-long vtigatn which “the SLA sent s agents nspicuo drs to the bars as a rult of public plats, ” and “after observg ndns, the vtigators did not reveal themselv but wrote reports to the SLA. ” The reports acced the tablishments of “permtg ‘open and notor’ homosexual activy whout actn to curb or halt the practic.

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” Wh months the licens for all three were quickly ncelled after their rpective SLA G Harold Warnock, the puty unty health director Monroe County rponsible for trackg venereal disease, was happy to see the Liquor Authory shut down the gay bars. He told the Rochter Democrat and Chronicle that “there were other areas the cy ‘jt about as bad’ as Front Street, ” and “he brand homosexual activy as a ntributory e of spreadg fectn but not the chief e.

”The clamp down on the gay bars should be of ltle surprise given the homophobia that was pervasive throughout the Uned Stat well to the 1960s.

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” The first article om March 15 explored “the extent of the muny’s volvement this growg problem, ” and the Rochter Police Bure provid the paper wh a list of nearly 300 known homosexuals was trackg. ” Ined, om 1958 through 1963 “there were 119 arrts for sodomy, many volvg homosexuals, ” and “bis the charg, hundreds of arrts have been ma for loerg, toxitn, disorrly nduct, vagrancy and other charg which the prcipals are homosexuals.

”The followg day on March 16 the D&C ran s send article “The Outsts” seri which provid a voyristic look to the gay “cult” cludg a Friday night vis to one of the downtown bars which was crowd “wh more than 100 persons” and “the floor was jammed wh 12 pairs of dancers, mostly men”:A young man named Jimmy was the most active of the dancers and kept up a near marathon, changg partners equently. He received many pliments on the shirt, scribed as a “bloe” by some of the further tg rears about the gay world the March 16 article reported that “Halloween is the natnal homosexual holiday, ” and “ is on this day that many of them drs female garb or ‘drag’ and attend parti, ually private hom or buildgs.

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” The Rochter Police Bure learned about the Halloween phenomenon the gay muny by attendg a “semar on homosexualy” provid by the FBI “for lol police bures and partments, ” and told the D&C that s unrver vice officers had filtrated “such parti. ”The third article om March 17 terviewed a 24-year-old married gay man wh four children who “admted that he married only to have a fay and also to cloak himself rpectabily, ” and he told the D&C: “I seek out male panns om one to three tim a week. ” The married man attend private parti or gay bars but said he loathed the homosexuals who publicly cised “Broad Street or Court Street bridg or Maplewood Park”: “I know some who are on the prowl.

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”The ncludg March 18 article the four-part Outsts seri foced on psychiatric problems, and closed wh a warng by policewoman Joan Mathers om the Morals Squad:“Parents should be ma aware of the problems and should warn their children agast homosexuals and other typ of molters.

“It would give the te crimal homosexual another out and create one more fense for such persons.

It would then be difficult to tablish ‘nsent’ and th be tougher to prosecute crimally active homosexuals. ”In rponse to the seri the D&C received many letters om rears which “scribed the bterns and lonels of their outst experience, ” and the paper reprted one om “an olr homosexual” on the “very lonely life”: “As I s at the gay bar night after night, I n’t help wonrg to myself what will happen to the (younger) boys 20 years om now.

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