From the Archiv: Is DC Beg the Gay Capal of Ameri? - Washgtonian

Contents:

• WASHGTON DC GAY SHOPS
• FROM THE ARCHIV: IS DC BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF AMERI?
• WASHGTON DC GAY CLOTHG
• GAY CLOTHG OPTNAL CAMPGROUNDS NEAR ME
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS WASHGTON
• WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE

WASHGTON DC GAY SHOPS

Not only were gays a key to the aln that put Barry the DC mayor’s chair; they also have won one of the natn’s strongt anti-discrimatn laws, they have earned the support of much of the DC cy uncil, and many of them now serve on cy boards and missns. Consir a few other extrem: You first meet a health specialist who tells of his tective work tryg to fd a young drifter who has personally set off a venereal-disease epimic wh a strg of “tricks” at a gay bath. ”• In an office buildg on Capol Hill, a fundamentalist preacher who has been prayg for the repentance of homosexuals ris om his kne and bellows to the televisn meras: “God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

FROM THE ARCHIV: IS DC BEG THE GAY CAPAL OF AMERI?

”• A wealthy gay hairdrser is stg on his terrace, slicg a b of pâté that his Brazilian hoeboy has brought down om the kchen, and gazg to his swimmg pool, which is rated on the bottom wh a mosaic of Marilyn Monroe. One rd shows a group of men-all drsed jt like the ctomer wh the Laste alligator on his cht wh the words “Christopher Street” script above their rds are signed for the gay market—Christopher Street is a famo gay strip Greenwich Village and the Laste alligator is rigur a portn of the gay muny. Below Dupont Circle, another theater is featurg Can’t Stop the Mic, a vehicle for the Village People, the group that has done most to popularize macho gay styl wh s h songs “Macho Man, ” “YMCA, ” and “In the Navy.

WASHGTON DC GAY CLOTHG

If he wants to announce to the world that he is gay, there is silver jewelry shaped like the Greek letter lambda, the accepted symbol of gay liberatn, or black buttons wh pk triangl, which are a remr of the tags the Nazis pned on homosexuals. Nan Hunter, who practic wh a “femist law llective, ” reprents lbian mothers child ctody s, fends other lbians agast voluntary discharge om the ary, and seeks upgrad discharg for those who have been turned out of the ary wh “ls than honorable” discharg and are th nied veterans’ this crease gay bs are several factors that would warm the heart of any entreprenr.

GAY CLOTHG OPTNAL CAMPGROUNDS NEAR ME

The same is te for a lol weekly entertament magaze lled their pag you will fd ads for clothg stor that specialize styl popular wh gays, ads for gay rorts Key Wt and Provcetown and Fire Island and Rehoboth Beach, as well as ads for baths, rtrants, theaters, and bars.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS WASHGTON

Ten years ago, the GAA didn’t exist as an effective polil anizatn, homosexuals were barred by feral policy om all ernment employment, and the ia of anized gay clout at the polls was not dreamed of by even the most visnary activists.

WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE

How many reers were affected durg the postwar perd will never be known, although a Senate mtee reported 4, 954 s between 1947 and who didn’t go quietly was Frank Kameny, a man who was eventually to bee the champn of gay polics the cy. Four years later, after appeals to the Whe Hoe and Congrs and the lower urts, the Supreme Court settled the matter by refg to hear his the fall of 1961, havg cid that an dividual uld not fight alone, Kameny helped anize the cy’s first gay anizatn. It was hh-hh, wh hardly anyone except Kameny g his own as the meetg was to beg, one of the men took Kameny asi and asked him if he realized that one of the ostensible homosexuals si was really a vice-squad tective and that the bulge his at was a pistol.

” The police had known about the secret meetg, turned out, bee they had earlier put a fake name on the New York mailg this time, the early 1960s, Kameny and a few other gays were begng to see some parallels between their posn as homosexuals and that of blacks.