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Contents:
- ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE FAC OVER A OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS
- WHY HASN’T THE GAY MUNY HAD A #METOO MOMENT?
- THE GAY BAR: WHY THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS BORN ONE
- CO WORDS, HIDG PLA SIGHT HELPED GAY BARS TAMPA ENDURE HISTORY OF HARASSMENT
- HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
- POLICE ARRT SPECT ALLEGED ANTI-GAY ATTACK BROOKLYN
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE FAC OVER A OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS
Michael J. Cohen, who owns Motel 23 and has hosted some of Manhattan’s most exclive gay parti, enticed young men wh accs to nightclubs and queer muny, they say. * gay bar harassment *
This clud five who said that when they were their late teens or early 20s and yearng for a sense of gay muny, Cohen grabbed their genals or buttocks at parti he hosted or at Motel 23. Six of the ne accers said that bee they were newly out of the closet and didn’t know many queer people when the enunters occurred, they prumed that the cints were normal wh the gay muny, even though they were upset by them at the of Cohen’s accers add that havg accs to New York’s gay bars and parti meant so much to them, pecially for those who were unr 21, that they were willg to put up wh Cohen’s advanc.
The five men who said Cohen groped them said that while they were dismayed and tried to manver away om him, they did not tell him to stop, bee they didn’t want to lose their nnectn to gay nightlife. It wasn’t jt about experiencg fun nights out wh their iends — was about the sense of eedom and acceptance they felt when surround by other gay people, some s for the first time their liv, they said. There is no ditn that they knew about the allegatns of misnduct agast Cohen and Motel 23 reported by NBC allegatns ept to public viewCohen has hosted gay parti at glamoro New York nightclubs — cludg Goldbar, PHD Rooftop Lounge at the Dream Downtown hotel and Fishbowl at the Dream Midtown hotel — wh reliable crowds of attractive men and star-studd gut lists.
WHY HASN’T THE GAY MUNY HAD A #METOO MOMENT?
The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement. * gay bar harassment *
Some of the world’s most well-known gay celebri, cludg Brish Olympic gold medalist Tom Daley, actor Neil Patrick Harris and rapper Lil Nas X, have been photographed wh Cohen or ma an appearance at Motel 23.
THE GAY BAR: WHY THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS BORN ONE
Taped on November 22 and 23, 1993, this home vio ptur a pair of oral histori reuntg the police and ary harassment of gay bars San Anton om the 1970s through the 1990s. Gene Elr first reunts cints at San Anton Country followg s openg downtown San Anton April 1973. The followg day, Elr talks wh lol bswoman Kay Ford about the harassment she experienced at her lbian bar, The Jezebel. Elr rerd the acunts to illtrate San Anton's place the natnal gay rights movement. * gay bar harassment *
Allegatns about Cohen’s behavr circulatg among New York’s gay men epted to public view early July, when dozens of allegatns about Motel 23 were posted on an anonymo Instagram acunt.
At the door, the man, who said he had never met Cohen before and do not equent New York’s gay nightlife scene, said that Cohen was gog to let him for ee, but charge his iend, who is Black, $250 for admissn.
CO WORDS, HIDG PLA SIGHT HELPED GAY BARS TAMPA ENDURE HISTORY OF HARASSMENT
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” Wh days, he had received a flood of msag wh allegatns, he anonymo claims posted by the acunt llectively allege that Motel 23’s owner turned gay parti and bars, which some see as queer safe spac, to toxic environments where young men were subjected to unwanted sexual advanc.
HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
On Dec. 31, 1966, a dozen placloth policemen observed the New Year's ftivi si the Black Cat, a gay bar Los Angel' Silver Lake neighb ... * gay bar harassment *
Brtany Bent, 31, said that this sprg, the bar’s door staff told her she would have to pay a $150 ver to enter, while the three iends who acpanied her — all gay men — uld get for ee. Seekg New York newers Long before he opened Motel 23, Cohen had a knack for nnectg wh young, gay men new to New York Cy, reachg out to them wh weeks of their arrival, five men said. Fifty years after the Black Cat protts Los Angel, which directly led to the lnch of The Advote, we take a look at some of the most nsequential strik on gay bars and bathho datg back more than a century.
POLICE ARRT SPECT ALLEGED ANTI-GAY ATTACK BROOKLYN
Brandon McNamara, 25, fac hate crime charg after two gay men were beaten unnsc outsi a Brooklyn gay bar over the weekend. * gay bar harassment *
The rmatn gathered actually led to a wir vtigatn of homosexualy nearby ci, which rulted 20 arrts, cludg two ps on the Baker Street beat, acrdg to Allan Bebe’s A History of Bathho. A German gay magaze 1929 published an acunt of a 26-year-old European visor that said eight tectiv went unrver the bathhoe, then round all patrons the ont room and beat the guts.
A New Year’s police raid on the Black Cat, a gay bay the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angel, rulted the beatgs of more than a dozen people; two men were arrted for the crime of kissg and a bartenr suffered a ptured spleen.
THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
Top Mosw Gay Clubs & Bars: See reviews and photos of Gay Clubs & Bars Mosw, Rsia on Tripadvisor. * gay bar harassment *
California lawmakers 1976 passed a nsentg adults law part to stop persecutn of gays through bathhoe raids, but that didn’t stop San Francis ps om raidg Liberty Baths an apparent tt of that law, acrdg to A History of Bathho.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office nducted jot raids of Florida gay bars Club 21 and Copa on May 3, 1991, and the cints would play a role Sheriff Nick Navarro eventually losg reelectn, ironilly after nductg such raids an apparent publicy stunt.
A McDonald’s anchisee Maryland feated a male crew member’s claim that anti-gay ments by a supervisor vlated feral sexual harassment law. * gay bar harassment *
Durg what AIDS activist Wan Yahai suggted was a crackdown on gays Beijg, the Dtatn got closed March 9, 2008, by police supposedly for playg mic too loud and hostg too large a crowd, acrdg to an article the Shangaiist.
When the Atlanta Police’s “Red Dog” un raid gay bar the Eagle September 2009, patrons reported beg forced onto the ground while officers ed homophobic slurs and nducted background checks on everybody there.
Police arrted 40 people standg outsi popular Mosw gay bar Central Statn December 2013, shortly after a number of disput between the bar owner and buildg landlords, acrdg to The Mosw Tim. After a July 6, 2014, raid which around 65 gay people were round up and taken to the police statn, Nairobi news outlet Ghafla reported that the arrts were ma simply bee the patrons were homosexual.