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- ILLOIS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
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“Not many people will remember the first actual ‘gay bar’ C-U, ” says Doug Barn, who grew up nearby Danville. Meetg other gays and jt the excement and feelg of beg able to be myself around everyone, I had been out most of my life, but beg that space was the begng of a whole new life. McNamara was the manager of a ltle bar lled Gvanni’s Place that opened Champaign 1975 and tered to the gay muny.
McNamara lghs warmly about the lounge at the Inman, lled the Crystal Room, beg the first ‘gay bar’.
McNamara, now a rint of Palm Sprgs, Florida, remembers the Crystal Room, but says wasn’t the first ‘gay bar. One long-time fan posted to many ‘lik’ on Facebook, “C-Street was THE gay bar of C-U! “Chter Street Bar has always been hailed as ‘the gay space’ of the CU sce I n remember.
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“When you said you were gog to ‘the bar’ certa circl they knew meant you were gog to the gay bar. “I’d already been toyg wh the ia of hostg a dis night at Chanc R that weled gays and had been talkg to the owners about , ” nfsed McNamara.
’ At first was jt lled ‘the gay ncer’… they didn’t even know what was.
He chose Pirao bee he knew that would rema a gay bar.
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“I hung out at Time Out, the Red Fox, and other gay bars Peoria, but those those bars were filled wh lols and mostly olr lols. It was full of people of all ag, and a whole lot of young people bee at the time, all those ltle gay bars plac like Peoria and Rantoul you had to be 21 to get .
But, over the years, slowly, the clientele at C-Street beme ls and ls gay.
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” Pirao was also quoted the article as sayg that, “Nowadays, gays n go lots of plac, ” implyg there is simply no need for LGBTQ spac anymore. The fact that a gay bar lasted that long, had that kd of stayg power one muny, I’d say that’s que somethg, wouldn’t you? Consirg gog to Urbana as a postdoc, n anyone tell me what gay life is like there?
So many people have e to pay their rpects to this inic buildg, one that has served central Illois for over 100 years, om s humble begngs as a lol buggy service shop to s legacy as a popular live mic venue for up and g lol bands to one of the most happeng gay and drag bars the entire state of Illois, and then fally a dance club where people om all walks of life uld show off their mov to the bt sound system C-U. The fact that a gay bar lasted that long — had that kd of stayg power one muny — I’d say that’s que somethg, wouldn’t you? 63 Chter Street was arguably the longt-nng gay owned and operated nightclub Illois, havg opened 1978 by Joe McNamera who worked as the general manager at Gvanni’s.
It was named “theBar", which beme a word for lol gay men seekg meetup opportuni. While still retaed s signatn of a “gay bar”, on most nights the clientele was evenly mixed.