The olst gay bar NYC is now an official landmark

Contents:

• THE OLST GAY BAR NYC HAS OFFICIALLY BEE A LANDMARK
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK
• NYC’S OLST GAY BAR, JULI’ BAR, GETS LANDMARK DIGNATN
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS SIGNATED AS DIVIDUAL LANDMARK
• NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS ON TRACK TO BEE CY LANDMARK
• HISTORIC GAY BAR SIGNATED AS NEW YORK CY LANDMARK

THE OLST GAY BAR NYC HAS OFFICIALLY BEE A LANDMARK

The cy lled the bar “one of the cy’s most signifint s of LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer) history” the news release. Juli’ was the se of the 1966 “Sip-, ” a prott agast homophobic discrimatn – although at the time, the bar wasn’t an explicly LGBT space.

ONE OF NEW YORK CY’S OLST GAY BARS IS NOW A HISTORIC LANDMARK

Four men named Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, John Timmons, and Randy Wicker staged the event to prott the persecutn of gay men for drkg public, acrdg to the Natnal Park Service. So bars often refed to serve clients who they knew were gay. At Juli’, the men announced they were gay – and the bartenr refed to serve them, sayg was illegal.

“Gays uld legally drk a bar.

NYC’S OLST GAY BAR, JULI’ BAR, GETS LANDMARK DIGNATN

And today, openly scrib self as a gay bar on s social media.

“As a gay man who enjoys untls eedoms that were unimagable their time, I owe enormo bt to the activists who ma Juli’ Bar the se of their prott. The bar is the se where three activists staged a simple act of prott 1966: openly announcg they were gay, then orrg a drk.

They lled a “sip-, ” and the three men, members of the Mattache Society, an early gay-rights group, were hopg to challenge the New York State Liquor Authory’s ban on servg LGBTQ patrons. A bar uld be raid, and s liquor license rcd, for servg gay ctomers, who were nsired “disorrly” unr the le. One of the cy’s olst gay bars, Juli’ had already been add to the Natnal Register of Historic Plac 2016—along wh nearby Stonewall Inn, the se of the famo 1969 protts that helped spark the Amerin LGBTQ rights movement.

ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS SIGNATED AS DIVIDUAL LANDMARK

The first bar on their planned circu, the Ukraian-Amerin Village Rtrant, knew of the prott and closed early; had a sign the wdow that read, “If you are gay, please go away, ” as the New York Tim’ Thomas A. “I drk, ” he told the Tim, “and who’s to say whether I’m a homosexual or not.

At the time, Juli’ “was a rather dull neighborhood place which was about three-quarters gay, ” Randy Wicker, who joed the other three later that day, told the Tim’ Jim Farber 2016. But when the men arrived at Juli’ and announced that they were gay, the manager refed to serve them. Gay Rights,.

NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BAR BE WT VILLAGE LANDMARK

The Greenwich Village waterg hole at 159 Wt 10th Street (aka 188 Waverly Place) was unanimoly voted is nsired not only the olst gay bar New York Cy but also one of the olst ntually operatg bars overall.

At the time of the “sip-, ” State Liquor Authory (SLA) l prohibed bars om servg gay ctomers. On April 21, 1966, three gay men om the New York Cy Mattache Society set out to vis four bars and tentnally fy the regulatns prott. The New York Cy Mattache Society was a group anized 1950 to promote gay rights.

When the bartenr approached the three men, they clared that they were gay.

ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS ON TRACK TO BEE CY LANDMARK

In 1967, the state urt led that the SLA l vlated gay patrons’ right to peacefully assemble and that bars uldn’t close down solely bee of sam-sex kissg or touchg.

The ti-changg se helped ph the gay rights movement forward. Protter and former chairman of the Mattache Society Dick Lesch told NPR 2008, “until this time gay people had never really fought back.

Though the bar was never exclively a gay bar, began to attract a predomantly LGBTQ+ clientele durg the 1960s. Unrground tunnels and seven different entranc and exs were ed as pe rout durg prohibn raids the 1920s and gay bars raids the 1960s.

HISTORIC GAY BAR SIGNATED AS NEW YORK CY LANDMARK

In 2013, Village Prervatn formally proposed Juli’, along wh the Stonewall Inn, the LGBT Communy Center at 208 Wt 13th Street, and the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehoe at 99 Wooster Street, as the cy’s very first signated LGBTQ+ landmarks. While the signatn for Juli’ is a major step forward prervg LGBTQ+ history, Andrew Berman, Executive Director of Village Prervatn, not there are still many other LGBTQ+ s that still need protectn, “cludg the former headquarters of the first natnal gay rights anizatn at 80 Fifth Avenue, the home of one of 19th-century New York’s leadg csars for votg rights and eedom for Ain Amerins at 50 Wt 13th Street, the former headquarters of the NYC Woman Sufage League at 10 Wt 14th Street, and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary at 218 Send Avenue, where groundbreakg re and servic have been provid for the visually and hearg impaired for over 150 years.