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- GIGI’S CELEBRAT 50 YEARS: THE OLST GAY-OWNED GAY BAR DETRO IS NOW A HALF-CENTURY OLD
- THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS
- PRI: WAL' OLST GAY BAR REMAS AMID VELOPG CY
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- "WE NEVER THOUGHT WE'D MAKE A YEAR": MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR CELEBRAT 45 YEARS BS
- THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
- AT’S OLST GAY BAR SET TO BE MOLISHED
GIGI’S CELEBRAT 50 YEARS: THE OLST GAY-OWNED GAY BAR DETRO IS NOW A HALF-CENTURY OLD
Gigi’s, one of the most beloved and rpected gay bars on the Michigan map, is celebratg a tone few venu manage to reach — 50 years the * oldest gay bar *
Drag superstar Trixie Mattel isn't ready to see her favore gay bar shut down like so many others have done durg the panmic, so she did what anyone would do: beme the bar's, who won RuPl's Drag Race All Stars 2018, says This Is It!, which opened back 1968, was the first gay bar she vised after turng 21.
THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS
Among Cardiff's high-rise buildgs and nstctn projects stands Wal' olst gay bar. * oldest gay bar *
Now she's helpg to stay open by beg a -owner when 's harr and harr for gay bars given the panmic. Is the olst still nng gay bar Wisns and one of the olst the US.
PRI: WAL' OLST GAY BAR REMAS AMID VELOPG CY
Gigi’s, one of the most beloved and rpected gay bars on the Michigan map, is celebratg a tone few venu manage to reach — 50 years the bs.
As was Rosalyn Delight, whose signature number was a Crystal Gayle parody lled “Donuts Make My Brown Ey Blue, ” durg which she actually threw donuts – day olds, I’m told, to the dience.
The bar’s gay roots date back to the very early 1970s.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
In 1973, 35-year-old Tony Garne, a former grocer, acquired the bar and turned all the way gay. The Woodward Bar & Grill Midtown held the distctn of beg Detro’s olst gay bar until s untimely mise by a three-alarm fire last year.
"WE NEVER THOUGHT WE'D MAKE A YEAR": MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR CELEBRAT 45 YEARS BS
That mak Gigi’s the olst gay-owned gay bar still operatn Detro. Some nearby straight neighbors weren’t too happy to have a homo bar on the block.
Chi relled Garne as a “very genero man who red about gay kids and wanted them to have a place where they belonged. The olst gay bar Queens, Friend’s Tavern, will rema Jackson Heights at 78-11 Roosevelt Avenue, near 79th Street.
Though was not immediately clear whether Friend’s was imment danger of closg whout purchasg the se, many gay bars have feared they wouldn’t be able to survive the panmic.
THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
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.
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.
AT’S OLST GAY BAR SET TO BE MOLISHED
So bars often refed to serve clients who they knew were gay.