Gay-Friendly Countri / GLBTQ+ Friendly Countri 2023

BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS

''Florida, Montana among worst for LGBTQ muny The x ranked stat acrdg to five areas: work environment, legal protectns, youth and fay support, health accs and safety, and polil and relig at the top tend to get more clive over the past year, while their lower-ranked peers beme ls tolerant or didn't move om where they were 'T SAY GAY LAWS SPARK FEAR:If they 'say gay, ' will my child be safe? Meanwhile, Florida – which has enacted what opponents ll a "Don't Say Gay'' bill that would rtrict discsn of LGBTQ people the classroom – dropped 3. The Stonewall rts New York Cy energized the gay rights movement 1969, and as LGBTQ people searched for shared experienc and safe spac, they found them at bars and clubs that openly weled them.

“Gay bars have been such an tegral part of our history, ” Tenpenny said.

“Gay bars, not jt Green Bay, but all over the place, beme the muny center, ” said Mark Mariucci, a Green Bay rint who ran several LGBTQ bars cludg Za’s, Java’s and the Wt Picture Show between 1989 and 2004.

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In 1980, the Green Bay Prs-Gazette published a week-long seri, "Gay Green Bay, " that lled bars like The Manhole a “lchp, a central place where s members n exist the open whout the fear of retributn om the straight world. ”Tenpenny is workg wh the Universy of Wisns-Green Bay to tablish a Northeast Wisns LGBTQ History Archive to llect some of the history project's memorabilia om gay bars and clubs, like t-shirts and tailed histori of var LGBTQ bars and support groups that were active over recent s.