A history of Detro’s disappearg gay bars | Cra's Detro Bs

Contents:

• CLUB GAY HAVEN
• SEPTEMBER 2-11, 1966 CLUB GAY HAVEN, DEARBORN, MI
• CLUB GAY HAVEN DEARBORN CONCERT SETLISTS
• WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS

CLUB GAY HAVEN

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The Sunlers headled the GAY HAVEN Supper Club. It says 's Canada's largt and gayt supper club. Walker & the All Stars, Marv Gaye, Martha & the Vanllas, the Temptatns, the Marvelett, and Smokey Robson & the Miracl.

” Soon, they’re sgg snatch of other hs (“Where Did Our Love Go, ” Lee Dorsey’s “Ri Your Pony”) and llg up celebri the dience to the stage: Marv Gaye, the Suprem, even the Everly Brothers, who had jt pleted a week at Detro’s Gay Haven Supper Club. Re-mak: “Ask The Lonely” (Billy Eckste, 1967; Barbara Lewis, 1970; Vonda Shepard, 1998), “Baby I Need Your Lovg” (The Fourmost, 1964; The Suprem, 1966; Gene Pney, 1968; Frankie Valli, 1975; Carl Carlton, 1982; Lisa Stansfield, 1999; Michael McDonald, 2004; Lulu, 2005), “I Can’t Help Myself” (Johnny Rivers, 1966; Donnie Elbert, 1972; Joe Stampley, 1973; Bonnie Poter, 1979; Dolly Parton, 1984; Human Nature, 2006), “I’ll Turn To Stone” (Dennis Edwards, 1967; Jackie DeShannon, 1968; Barbara Randolph, 1968), “I Like Everythg About You” (Chris Clark, 1966; Chuck Jackson, 1967), “It’s The Same Old Song” (Delroy Wilson, 1972; Wild Cherry, 1978; Third World, 1989; Boyz II Men, 2007; Rod Stewart, 2009; Iron and We, 2015), “Reach Out I’ll Be There” (Petula Clark, 1967; Diana Ross, 1971; Gloria Gaynor, 1975; Average Whe Band, 1982; Thelma Hoton, 1983; Narada Michael Waln, 1983; Michael Bolton, 1992; Michael McDonald, 2004; Human Nature, 2005; Boyzone, 2014). When The Woodward, Detro's olst-nng gay bar, burned a massive fire last week, spurred a nversatn about the history of the bar self, but also where was suated Detro gay history more broadly — and how to remember and celebrate s signifince the gay muny while lookg toward the future.

SEPTEMBER 2-11, 1966 CLUB GAY HAVEN, DEARBORN, MI

The fire happened the middle of Pri Month, and not jt any Pri Month Detro: This year marks 50 years sce the cy's first Pri march, held June 24, 1972 to mand "full civil rights for gay people" and a repeal of all anti-gay laws, the Free Prs reported back then.

The march, officially lled Christopher Street '72, was self a remembrance of the uprisg at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street New York Cy on June 28, 1969, when protts broke out rponse to a police raid at a gay bar.

CLUB GAY HAVEN DEARBORN CONCERT SETLISTS

In s 70-odd years, The Woodward has been part of many tersectg stori of gay life and culture Detro, cludg policg of gay spac, ownership shifts, racial segregatn and populatn trends the cy. The owners said they never set out to open up a gay bar. "We jt opened up and whichever way went, went, " Andy Karagas told "Gayzette" 1973 (as reported Andy's obuary 1997).

"And when went gay all the way, we kicked out all the straights that night.

WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS

He later me out as the time, owners of gay bars Detro were mostly not gay themselv. Gay sex was a crime Michigan — as had been sce the 1800s — and police equently harassed and arrted gay people and raid gay bars.

"It was technilly illegal to operate a bar that was a renzvo for homosexuals, " said Tim Retzloff, adjunct assistant profsor of history and LGBTQ studi at Michigan State Universy.

Bars at the time, gay and otherwise, sometim paid off police to be left alone. The Woodward provid a safe haven for whe gay men.