Louisville's LGBTQ history: Timele of KY gay, lbian and trans past

Contents:

• GAY
• THE BEST LOUISVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LOUISVILLE
• GAY DATG LOUISVILLE
• LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY GAY CY GUI - LGBTQ EVENTS AND GAYBORHOODS
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
• 'I WANTED PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN.' AFTER 27 YEARS, LOUISVILLE SAYS FAREWELL TO INIC GAY BAR
• LOOKG FOR GAY BARS LOUISVILLE DURG PRI MONTH? TRY ONE OF THE LGBTQ PLAC

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Opened 1987, Teddy Bears Bar is Louisville's longt-nng gay bar, and tends to brg a seasoned male crowd (ag 30-65), offerg karaoke fun on Wedndays and Sundays pl a fun monthly drag show, "Beti of the Bear. Marketplace Rtrant is part of The Village Louisville, a progrsive and LGBT-iendly Smoketown district revelopment project that clus a gay spa and boutique property, the Vu Guthoe.

Prolific lol bsman and veloper and LGBT activist Gee Stson and partner Ed Lewis opened Louisville's first gay club 1970 (and The Connectn, which had a 27-pl year n before closg 2016).

THE BEST LOUISVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LOUISVILLE

It's part of a plex, The Village Louisville, which clus a three-story gay men's spa and sna, Vapor, and 1, 500-person pacy event space, C2.

The Perfect SreGay-Friendly NeighborhoodsBt FtivalsPlenty of LGBTQ VenuYou Aren’t Alone. Gay-Friendly Neighborhoods Louisville has multiple LGBTQ-iendly neighborhoods cludg Old Louisville, Smoketown, Germantown and Clifton.

GAY DATG LOUISVILLE

The gay-owned Vu Guthoe and Vapor are both loted the Smoketown neighborhood.

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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY GAY CY GUI - LGBTQ EVENTS AND GAYBORHOODS

Only Lads: ee gay datg & gay chat social work. ”Out of the shadows:Why the people are unverg Louisville's storied LGBTQ historyEarly 1900sThe LGBTQ muny largely met private up until the early 1900s when gay men steadily veloped a work of public plac where was safe to gather, such as the Hogan’s Founta area of Cherokee Park, Old Louisville’s Central Park and Fourth Street between downtown and Central Park. 1947After World War II, more gay-iendly or exclively gay bars appeared  Uned Stat ci.

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

11, 1970, judge led agast the uple Febary 1971, and two years later, the Kentucky Supreme Court 1970In July 1970, 13 women and two men tablished the Louisville Gay Liberatn Front or LGLF. The group met at the home of s two primary -founrs, Lynn Pfuhl and Mike Randall, and the anizatn was among dozens that sprang up the Uned Stat followg the formatn of New York’s Gay Liberatn Front late LGLF also pneered what’s believed to be Kentucky’s first ll- phone le for gay and lbian people. Group members also opened The Gay Lib Hoe at 1919 Bonnystle Ave.

1972Louisville’s Metropolan Communy Church ngregatn, a lol branch of a natnally gay-iendly group, began meetg private hom 1972. This was Louisville’s first morn gay dis and was known for s extravagant drag shows. For the next 14 years, the hotspot beme Louisville’s most clive and popular gay bars until closed 1989.

1981Sam Dorr had worked at First Natnal Bank for nearly two s when he was named print of a pro-gay advocy group wh a relig affiliatn 1981. 1983Louisville’s Central Prbyterian Church, loted the historilly gay-iendly Old Louisville neighborhood, passed a “More Light” rolutn, which embrac gay members 1983. Four years later the church ordaed an openly gay man, Nick Wilkerson, as a church elr.

'I WANTED PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN.' AFTER 27 YEARS, LOUISVILLE SAYS FAREWELL TO INIC GAY BAR

1987The first March for Jtice took place on June 27, 1987, and the event marked the first Gay Pri march the state. 2003 As LGBTQ-equaly momentum creased, Srsone me out publicly and beme the state’s first openly gay legislator. Edor's Note: This story has been updated to provi addnal attributn and ntext around the history of the days leadg up to Christmas, Mike Flatt and his staff would wrap hundreds of prents for the ctomers at bar owner knew many of them didn’t have a home they were wele to for the many ways, the recently shuttered Louisville gay bar beme their meant at Christmastime, everyone walked out of the bar wh armfuls of gifts, and on Thanksgivg, people packed to the bar for a full turkey dner.

When the bar opened the early 90s, fewer fai embraced gay men and their partners. That means that while there are more clive and safe spac around the cy for the LGBTQ muny  creat a sort of loss for plac like Tryangl that tradnally ter to a specifilly gay crowd. Flatt saw the downtick ctomers over the years as his Thanksgivg table thned out and his clientele grew more fortable mastream gay men have so many other plac they n go, Flatt told me when I met him on a Southern Indiana porch late June, about a month after Tryangl shut s doors for good at 209 S.

When the bar closed May, was the longt nsistently operatg gay bar Louisville and an stutn for the LGBTQ muny. “It’s a gay bar isn’t ? Here are 7+ thgs to do around Louisville to support the LGBTQ munyRobson, who was one of the first publicly HIV-posive people Louisville, remembers havg young gay men e up to him at the bar, pull him asi and nfi their own stat to him.

LOOKG FOR GAY BARS LOUISVILLE DURG PRI MONTH? TRY ONE OF THE LGBTQ PLAC

But gay bars durg Pri month is a great start. And more answers to your Pri Month qutnsSo, if you're new to Louisville, new to the LGBTQ scene or are jt lookg to have a good time wh some of the cy's iendlit cizens, we've got some ias for are the most well-known and popular gay spots the cy:Know of any gay or LGBTQ-iendly bars that should be on this list?

"Nowhere Bar — Highlands1133 Bardstown Road, 502-451-0466While not technilly a gay venue,  would be remiss to exclu Nowhere Bar.

That's bee has a healthy gay followg.