The Olst Gay Bar Queens Secur Its Future Jackson Heights - Eater NY

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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

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. 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.

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.

THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS

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.

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.

PRI: WAL' OLST GAY BAR REMAS AMID VELOPG CY

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 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.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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.

"WE NEVER THOUGHT WE'D MAKE A YEAR": MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR CELEBRAT 45 YEARS BS

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 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Among Cardiff cy centre's high rise buildgs, offic, flats and numero nstctn projects stands Wal' olst gay ed to be over a dozen pubs this small rner of the pal, but today the Gra II-listed Goln Cross, a stone's throw om St David's 2 Shoppg Centre, is the only one still s openg as the Shields and Newstle Tavern the mid-19th Century, to s stat as a waterg hole for the cy's LGBT populatn for the past 24 years, this eye-tchg pub has a fascatg Pri Cym draws to a close, here's a brief history of Wal' olst gay ptn, The Goln Cross ss one of the most veloped areas of the cyThe pub has a iendly atmosphere a regenerated part of Cardiff, but this was historilly an area many people avoid due to s reputatn for thievery, vlence and prostutn. "Image ptn, The hand-pated pictorial panel of Cardiff Castle at the public barImage ptn, A pictn of the old Bras Brewery on St Mary's St Victorian tim, seen on the wall towards the back of the pubThe Goln Cross officially beme a gay bar 24 years ago, and over the years Cardiff has seen s LGBT pub scene grow, wh many other tablishments openg. "Nowadays, Cardiff's gay pubs are more spread out across the cy, wh Pulse on Churchill Way beg a popular spot.

AT’S OLST GAY BAR SET TO BE MOLISHED

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016.