*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION CENTER
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Much n be learned on your feet year-round."},{"_id":"GRI7MJURDVEOHNZ43UUCTIF7SU","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717103,"ments":[],"le_ments":[{"ment":"unty’s","pos":176}]},"ntent":"The ne s are only a ty sample of Philly’s rich legacy of fightg for LGBTQ equaly, but they’re a good place to start. They’ll take you to the se of the untry’s first trans and gay s- 1965, a mural markg the untry’s first annual LGBTQ monstratns (before Stonewall), and even a traffic sign signed to curb gay cisg."},{"_id":"6N3UCYUVQZHLTOPGC434XB2GBU","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717104,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"Put on your fy sho: This walkg tour will take you through 100 years of history a sgle afternoon."},{"_id":"GF5QXWWJGNDZBOGBRRIEJOX524","type":"raw_html","addnal_properti":{"_id":"WUO2IWWGYFCN5CU334VCU725QY","ments":[]},"ntent":"<iame src=\"" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"></iame>"},{"_id":"DGAVMSLZ4NDR5FVKGUSYVFH3XM","type":"hear","level":3,"addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906641,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"1. No Left Turn sign"},{"_id":"QNJ2BK3MCJBHXIWVSB36BYDWY4","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906642,"ments":[],"le_ments":[{"ment":"Street &","pos":8}]},"ntent":"<i>21st and Delancey Streets</i>"},{"_id":"LKXLGO6DXFF7LPR64VLNP7G4JI","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654633784143,"ments":[],"le_ments":[{"ment":"t","pos":972}]},"ntent":"In the 1960s and 1970s, Rtenhoe Square was the center of gay life Philalphia, and the first Pri march Philly started at Rtenhoe Square and end at Inpennce Hall. Gradually, as gentrifitn set , “one by one, bars started to close Wt of Broad St.,” says Bob Skiba, curator of the John J. Wilx Jr. LGBT Archiv at the William Way Center. Rtenhoe Square was also a popular cisg spot for gay men, and Delancey Street was known as the “Merry-go-round.” “Men would drive around circl, and they would s on the stoops, and was to meet other men after the bars closed,” says Skiba. In 1974, then-mayor Frank Rizzo put up traffic signs like this one <a href=\""> an effort to crack down on cisg</a> by makg harr to drive through the streets. The signs were not popular wh some rints, and even drew cricism om people si the cy ernment, “It’s kd of stretchg ,” then-puty streets missner John Scggs told The Inquirer, “to thk you n regulate human behavr wh a traffic sign.”"},{"_id":"YFJWFTNIKZCP5CF22CJ2UAA33U","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717109,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"➡️ <i>Walk north on 21st Street to Loct Street</i>"},{"_id":"IGGIGE73CNBQVMZMMBU4W5EFGY","type":"hear","level":3,"addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906644,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"2. Barbara Gtgs Hoe"},{"_id":"EKIDHNCPMZF3LPUKXFJU7JNRCE","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906645,"ments":[],"le_ments":[{"ment":"Street &","pos":8}]},"ntent":"<i>21st and Loct Streets</i>"},{"_id":"GPHDRCKYUNATVM4DYH2DW7Y5OU","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654633784146,"ments":[],"le_ments":[{"ment":",","pos":498}]},"ntent":"<a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Gtgs</a> played a huge role LGBTQ history Philalphia. Gtgs lived at 241 S. 21st St. wh her partner, <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">Kay Tob Lahen</a>, an openly lbian photojournalist and documentarian. Gtgs was the edor of The Ladr, the natn’s first lbian magaze, and the founr of the Philly chapter of the Dghters of Bilis (DOB), the natn’s first lbian anizatn, which started as a social and tnal group. Gtgs routely spoke out agast police raids lbian bars and phed the Philly DOB to be more radil than s natnal arm bee “Philly women were not havg ,” says Skiba. “They didn’t want to s around and have tea.” In 1968, she helped start a new group lled the Homophile Actn League. Gtgs was stmental anizg protts and monstratns throughout the 1960s and 1970s, promoted posive LGBTQ lerature public librari, and was part of the fight to change the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. In addn to this marker at her former home, a sectn of Loct St. the heart of Gayborhood is named after her."},{"_id":"YFJWFTNIKZCP5CF22CJ2UAA33U","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717113,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"➡️ <i>Walk east on Loct Street; walk through Rtenhoe Square, and turn left on 17th Street.</i>"},{"_id":"X7QEOF6XRRGJLDKFSY7PGAUMNU","addnal_properti":{"fullSizeRizeUrl":"/rizer/-ViwoM6BWA6YL0xPduGylbGSCfY=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","galleri":[],"gtnMethod":"manual","keywords":[],"mime_type":"image/eg","origalName":"","origalUrl":","owner":"","proxyUrl":"/rizer/-ViwoM6BWA6YL0xPduGylbGSCfY=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","published":te,"rizeUrl":"/rizer/-ViwoM6BWA6YL0xPduGylbGSCfY=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","rtricted":false,"thumbnailRizeUrl":"/rizer/J6z1p-OQSWLg1iPi9J8-gDrrAvo=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","versn":1,"_id":"F7GRGGZANZDJ5FCMETW463RCB4","ments":[]},"addrs":{},"th":{"1":"4e6a6fa4f01c7469b6c88a1b3ee2c90d0798339347bd4cf5f68a95bd0ce376"},"ptn":"In 1965, transgenr and Black activists protted at the Dewey’s lunch unter at 219 S. 17th St.","created_date":"2019-06-07T12:51:00Z","creds":{"affiliatn":[],"by":[{"byle":"Courty of William Way Center","type":"thor"}]},"height":437,"image_type":"photograph","last_updated_date":"2019-06-07T13:03:38Z","licensable":false,"owner":{"id":"pmn","sponsored":false},"source":{"addnal_properti":{"edor":"photo center"},"ed_url":"","system":"Anglerfish"},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","url":","versn":"0.10.9","width":338,"synditn":{"search":te},"subtle":"","imageWebUrl":"(webp)/","imgSrcSet":""},{"_id":"EM7KQZZRRRARHINZMUIL3HZTQM","type":"hear","level":3,"addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906649,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"3. Former se of Dewey’s"},{"_id":"5Q62RQIUQBGFNMN7WGY4ZV2O7A","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906650,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"<i>219 S. 17th St.</i>"},{"_id":"OKUD66GIHZAXDDVLEXFNQZTRSI","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654633784150,"ments":[],"le_ments":[{"ment":"prottors","pos":295}]},"ntent":"While many people thk that the Stonewall rt was the event which kicked off the LGBTQ civil rights movement, this was the se of a cril prott several years before Stonewall. Takg s spiratn om lunch unter s- monstratns agast racism by Black civil rights protters, Dewey’s was the se of the first transgenr and gay s- the untry. On April 25, 1965, Dewey’s (a cha lunch unter wh a lotn here) was the se of a s- prott by three young people, bee the rtrant refed to serve genr-nonnformg and gay patrons (cludg <a href=\"">“ ‘homosexuals,’ ‘mascule women,’ ‘feme men,’ and ‘persons wearg non-nformist clothg.’ ”</a>, acrdg to ) The youths were arrted, along wh proment gay activist Clark Polak, for disorrly nduct. By the end of the next week, the Dewey’s management changed their policy so they would serve anyone."},{"_id":"YFJWFTNIKZCP5CF22CJ2UAA33U","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717118,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"➡️ <i>Walk north to Walnut Street; turn right and ntue to Broad Street; walk north to Cy Hall.</i>"},{"_id":"R76NZ4ZNPRFKFP4PC566GPYHOE","addnal_properti":{"fullSizeRizeUrl":"/rizer/DorWwe3cLzYZPrLCZPw2KeM7dHk=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","galleri":[],"mime_type":"image/eg","origalName":","origalUrl":","proxyUrl":"/rizer/DorWwe3cLzYZPrLCZPw2KeM7dHk=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","published":te,"rizeUrl":"/rizer/DorWwe3cLzYZPrLCZPw2KeM7dHk=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","rtricted":false,"takenOn":"2018-01-25T14:08:36Z","thumbnailRizeUrl":"/rizer/zcjEdVVQVJmMuY-X0jexTWKYcEg=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","versn":0,"_id":"TUOWADYUXZBE7LA3TAIHWE77VI","ments":[]},"th":{"1":"3196516bd6f1338cdf57e68fdf30508f64c9816db1347bc924887938ecf5961e"},"ptn":"A mural of Gloria Casarez once looked over 12th Street, but was pated over and then molished 2020. A marker celebratg her activism now stands at Cy Hall, the first to memorate a Latx person Philalphia.","created_date":"2018-09-10T14:26:13Z","creds":{"by":[{"addnal_properti":{},"name":"STEVE WEINIK/MURAL ARTS","type":"thor"}]},"distributor":{"addnal_properti":{},"tegory":"other","name":"External or Unknown"},"height":1159,"last_updated_date":"2018-09-10T14:26:13Z","licensable":false,"owner":{"id":"pmn","name":"The Philalphia Inquirer, Daily News and "},"source":{"name":"External or Unknown","source_id":"266393223","source_type":"other","addnal_properti":{"clickabily_id":"266393223","dixon_id":"324334","edor":"photo center"},"system":"clickabily"},"type":"image","url":","versn":"0.10.9","width":1700,"subtle":"","imageWebUrl":"(webp)/","imgSrcSet":"(webp)/ 800w,(webp)/ 700w,(webp)/ 600w,(webp)/ 500w,(webp)/ 400w"},{"_id":"YZLU6IY7GNCRHLUWGXRPOJH3VI","type":"hear","level":3,"addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906653,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"4. Gloria Casarez marker"},{"_id":"Z2JTYENICJEIFN66VALDQLKJUU","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906654,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"<i>Outsi Cy Hall, 1400 John F. Kennedy Blvd.</i>"},{"_id":"EGGYNK2Q6BBAJMC25PNLZ4VZVU","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654633784154,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"This marker memorat LGBTQ activist and lear Gloria Casarez, who died 2014. Casarez spent much of her life fightg for civil rights for queer, trans, Latx, and homels muni, among others. Casarez was the executive director of Gay and Lbian Lato AIDS Edutn Iniative (GALAEI), and was <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">the cy’s first director of LGBT affairs</a> unr then-Mayor Michael Nutter om 2008 to 2014, where she fought for the <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">LGBT Equaly Bill</a>, which passed 2013. A mural on the si of the 12th Street Gym that honored Casarez was <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">pated over and then torn down</a> 2020 after a fight to prerve failed; <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">this marker was stalled 2021</a>, and is the first marker the cy memoratg a Latx person. After she died, <a href=\"">Nutter said</a> “We all loved Gloria’s mment and spir. She was a fighter and a champn, personally and profsnally.” While you’re here, take a look at Cy Hall, which rais LGBTQ flags several tim a year, cludg March for the Trans Day of Visibily, April for the Philly Black Pri weekend, June for Pri month, July or Augt for the Philalphia Trans Wellns Conference, October for LGBTQ History Month, and November for the Trans Day of Remembrance."},{"_id":"YFJWFTNIKZCP5CF22CJ2UAA33U","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717123,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"➡️ <i>Walk north to Arch Street; turn right and ntue to North 13th Street; turn right and walk south.</i>"},{"_id":"CRF32WIQFVDSZNZPQPIFF3PLFU","type":"raw_html","addnal_properti":{"_id":"SGXXFTZOLBET3KPVRBCI2NQZGU","ments":[]},"ntent":"<div id=\"ntext\" style=\"width:100%;font-fay: 'Gotham Narrow Ssm A', 'Gotham Narrow SSm B', 'Gotham Narrow SSm',Helveti, sans-serif;marg:24px 0px\">\n <h5 style=\"le-height: 1.13;letter-spacg: -.1px;font-weight: 900;borr-bottom: 2px solid #236AF6;marg: 0px;marg-bottom: 10px;paddg-bottom: 3px;text-transform: upperse;\">\n Help make this gui better\n </h5>\n <div class=\"ntext__ntent\" style=\"font-weight: 100;font-size: 14px;le-height: 22px;\">\n <div>See somethg missg? If you spot an error or omissn any of our guis, please let know by emailg at <a href=\"\"></a></div>\n </div>\n </div>"},{"_id":"ZLHIGFXKYBA6FLBKHI3YSF543Q","type":"hear","level":3,"addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906656,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"5. Area formerly known as ‘North of Market’"},{"_id":"2MWLD2EY5NBGHCYF3TNA7AZYJM","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906657,"ments":[],"le_ments":[{"ment":"&","pos":28}]},"ntent":"<i>13th Street near Filbert and Arch Streets</i>"},{"_id":"BWOJE2TIUVABRIRYTZP4OEGWLU","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654633784157,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"While none of the origal plac rema, between the 1950s and the 1980s, this area was once lled “North of Market” and was one of the centers of Black LGBTQ public life Philly. Faced wh racism whe gay tablishments, many the Black queer muny would ngregate Black straight bars and jazz clubs this area, as well as gay bars cludg Rz, Track 7, Pentony’s, and Smart Place. Other key s for social gathergs and anizg were wh private hom and other discreet lotns, sce, historilly, the Black queer muny had to improvise to mata safety. Acrdg to Philalphia Pri ftival anizer Dennis Mrice Dumpson, North of Market bars were not jt for drkg, but also for beg seen and valued for who you were. Many Black queer s have been stroyed and replaced by the lik of the Marrtt and the Conventn Center, and exclud om official regnn by historil markers. “That tells a story self. People of lor don’t get acknowledged historil markers,” says Skiba. There are no historil markers of Black queer history Philly."},{"_id":"YFJWFTNIKZCP5CF22CJ2UAA33U","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717127,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"➡️ <i>Contue south along 13th Street to Walnut Street.</i>"},{"_id":"NO5LONSQR5H6XBWWB7J35D5LQA","addnal_properti":{"fullSizeRizeUrl":"/rizer/AJIXqq6XOr8x5Y7VU4DXwNaPzWU=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","galleri":[],"mime_type":"image/eg","origalName":"","origalUrl":","proxyUrl":"/rizer/AJIXqq6XOr8x5Y7VU4DXwNaPzWU=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","published":te,"rizeUrl":"/rizer/AJIXqq6XOr8x5Y7VU4DXwNaPzWU=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","rtricted":false,"thumbnailRizeUrl":"/rizer/vUPaj50GshQCuwepgsOYJ3TF8=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","versn":1,"visible_to_search":te,"adapter_versn":"0.5.0","expiry":"never","_id":"6ELE2CFB7RHD3DMXAWHSC2L2GQ","ments":[]},"th":{"1":"768ed814990109db1535a166302b1fe8bb4965f0d169c829170808b35e6167"},"ptn":"The tersectn at 13th and Loct Streets Philalphia's Gayborhood.","created_date":"2019-10-13T20:43:04Z","creds":{"by":[{"name":"JULIE SHAW / Staff","type":"thor"}]},"distributor":{"tegory":"other","mo":"ctom","name":"UGC"},"height":3024,"last_updated_date":"2022-06-07T21:50:08Z","licensable":false,"owner":{"id":"pmn","sponsored":false},"source":{"name":"UGC","source_id":"1914690","source_type":"other","addnal_properti":{"ntent_type":"betadam_image","edor":"photo center"},"system":"betadam"},"subtle":"Photos - er-ntributed - outft14-14","type":"image","url":","versn":"0.10.9","width":4032,"synditn":{"external_distributn":false,"search":te},"publish_date":"2019-10-13T08:42:01.000Z","imageWebUrl":"(webp)/","imgSrcSet":"(webp)/ 800w,(webp)/ 700w,(webp)/ 600w,(webp)/ 500w,(webp)/ 400w"},{"_id":"6ZDVFZCS7FDANIQX7N3BO2BWLE","type":"hear","level":3,"addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906660,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"6. 13th Street"},{"_id":"ZUM7X7WYNVFLRFEG4LYB734VKA","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717130,"ments":[],"le_ments":[{"ment":"&","pos":37}]},"ntent":"<i>South 13th Street, between Walnut and Loct Streets</i>"},{"_id":"Q2CFW7TNIBBEDIU5Q57YPYWKDY","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654633784160,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"13th Street is one of the ma streets of Philly’s Gayborhood, full of lively rtrants and bars. While s rabow-rated street signs make one of the most visible hom of Philly’s LGBTQ muny, the area has also stggled wh cln, cludg a legacy of racism and genr discrimatn at <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">primarily whe gay tablishments</a>, and a <a href=\"">2016 plat to the Philalphia Human Rights Commissn</a>. However, the neighborhood has ntued to evolve, and now clus Black- and South Asian-owned clubs among s nightlife optns (Level Up Bar and Lounge at 1330 Walnut St., and Cockatoo at 208 S. 13th St., rpectively). Walk along the block, and you’ll also see markers memoratg the Philalphia Gay News, the area’s largt and olst LGBTQ publitn; <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">John Fryer</a>, a Temple profsor <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">whose ttimony before the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn</a> helped classify homosexualy as a mental illns; <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Gtgs</a>, for whom a sectn of Loct Street at 12th and 13th Street is named; and the AIDS Library, which 1987 beme the first library of s kd dissematg rmatn about the AIDS epimic."},{"_id":"YFJWFTNIKZCP5CF22CJ2UAA33U","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717132,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"➡️ <i>Turn left on Loct Street, then right on Camac Street.</i>"},{"_id":"AMPSKOBVVJH7NDURNAEHIUOMHQ","type":"hear","level":3,"addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906662,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"7. Tavern on Camac"},{"_id":"P3YVFSWPWJFI3OTAFLADDPVG5A","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906663,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"<i>243 S. Camac St.</i>"},{"_id":"Y3WVLYJUUREGNMNYLDCXMDYSDQ","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654633784163,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"Ntled on a popular block of Camac, a street known the 1920s as “Philly’s Greenwich Village,” the Tavern on Camac is thought by some to be the olst ntuoly operatg LGBTQ bar Philalphia, though didn’t always operate unr the same name ( was a speakeasy lled Maxe’s the 1920s and Raffl the 1980s). Now, the bar ntas a rtrant, piano bar, and nightclub."},{"_id":"YFJWFTNIKZCP5CF22CJ2UAA33U","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717136,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"➡️ <i>Turn left on Spce Street, then right on 12th Street until you reach Pe Street.</i>"},{"_id":"OSL2M5SL4RARJMNXWPIVQLOTOU","addnal_properti":{"fullSizeRizeUrl":"/rizer/R6dwYKsCPrkvxth3Bm9zCGB9lTQ=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","galleri":[],"mime_type":"image/eg","origalName":"","origalUrl":","proxyUrl":"/rizer/R6dwYKsCPrkvxth3Bm9zCGB9lTQ=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","published":te,"rizeUrl":"/rizer/R6dwYKsCPrkvxth3Bm9zCGB9lTQ=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","rtricted":false,"takenOn":"2019-06-24T17:04:50Z","thumbnailRizeUrl":"/rizer/1m-vz5Ae9eK1XHFIM1TkipDzDAo=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-pmn/public/","versn":1,"visible_to_search":te,"adapter_versn":"0.5.0","expiry":"never","_id":"K5GZVDZV5BAGVDLX6IYD4KB5FQ","ments":[]},"th":{"1":"3ceda4f06d8d26b9535dfee6471d78069b7c6d57b6c113a47709b219f200"},"ptn":"Philly AIDS Thrift at Gvanni's Room.","created_date":"2019-06-24T19:20:56Z","creds":{"by":[{"name":"MICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer","type":"thor"}]},"distributor":{"tegory":"staff","mo":"ctom","name":"staff"},"height":2000,"last_updated_date":"2022-06-07T21:50:08Z","licensable":false,"owner":{"id":"pmn","sponsored":false},"source":{"name":"Staff","source_id":"1679643","source_type":"staff","addnal_properti":{"ntent_type":"betadam_image","edor":"photo center"},"system":"betadam"},"subtle":"DM1LGBTQBOOKSTORES25-a","type":"image","url":","versn":"0.10.9","width":3000,"synditn":{"external_distributn":te,"search":te},"publish_date":"2019-06-24T17:04:50.000Z","imageWebUrl":"(webp)/","imgSrcSet":"(webp)/ 800w,(webp)/ 700w,(webp)/ 600w,(webp)/ 500w,(webp)/ 400w"},{"_id":"PUSKHP473RHEFC7VWGZPM6DE5E","type":"hear","level":3,"addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906666,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"8. Gvanni’s Room"},{"_id":"E5VA44SY6NFTZOE4LRXUKSFPVQ","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906667,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"<i>345 S. 12th St.</i>"},{"_id":"MD4ZNXEZIVBWTBO7MVCT2M4VLY","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654633784167,"ments":[],"le_ments":[{"ment":" ","pos":476}]},"ntent":"Named for the Jam Baldw novel, <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">Gvanni’s Room</a> is the olst ntuoly operatg LGBTQ and femist bookstore the untry, found 1973, the same year homosexualy was classified as a mental illns. At a time when most of the area’s culture was s nightlife, Gvanni’s Room was the first stutn the Gayborhood that was open durg the day and was kid-iendly; a “rpectable” stutn that anybody uld go to. It boldly asserted self to daytime Center Cy, and as a rult, wdows were sometim vandalized. “It had the wdows that you uld see om multiple angl and you uld see who was si — you uld see imagery of queer people kissg on a book ver, for example,” says Rebec Fisher, founr of Beyond the Bell tours. Its legacy ntu as part of <a href=\"">Philly AIDS Thrift</a>, which rais funds for AIDS anizatns the cy."},{"_id":"YFJWFTNIKZCP5CF22CJ2UAA33U","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654638717141,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"➡️ <i>Walk back up 12th Street to Spce Street; turn left and ntue until jt before Juniper Street.</i>"},{"_id":"KUVCUTIUGBE2FF3QRYAAFFB3XI","type":"hear","level":3,"addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906669,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"9. William Way Center"},{"_id":"ICZ2OVWV2ZAEREZVYX4QKQKHYQ","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654550906670,"ments":[],"le_ments":[]},"ntent":"<i>1315 Spce St.</i>"},{"_id":"XHP7ZJKLS5EL5DXIZYNJOBQQWQ","type":"text","addnal_properti":{"_id":1654633784170,"ments":[],"le_ments":[{"ment":" ","pos":115},{"ment":"U.S.","pos":1112}]},"ntent":"This LGBTQ muny center tak re of queer people many phas of life. It provis help for sobriety, elrre, as well as unselg. Many of s servic are ee. The center’s lobby has a livg room vibe where people n have a place to hang out, and feel at home. The center shar this role as a safe space wh other LGBTQ muny anizatns the cy, cludg <a href=\"">COLOURS</a> and <a href=\"">GALAEI</a>, which support Black, and Latx/QTBIPOC people, rpectively. The center is also home to <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">one of the largt LGBTQ archiv the untry</a>. It was named after cy planner and LGBTQ activist William “Bill” Way, regnizg his work and support for the muny center throughout the 1980s. In 2024, the center will celebrate s 50th anniversary, makg one of the olst queer muny spac the untry. On the center’s wt wall, you n see the mural <a href=\""><i>Pri and Progrs,</i></a> (2003) by Ann Northp. The mural picts a Pri ftival. On the lefthand si, you n see archival imag of the <a href=\"" target=\"_blank\">“Annual Remr,”</a> the first anized, regularly occurrg protts for LGBTQ rights the Uned Stat, held ont of Inpennce Hall om 1965 to 1969, before Stonewall. “That’s where the Constutn was drawn up. So people knew was the perfect place to talk about rights Ameri, who gets them and who don’t,” says Skiba."},{"_id":"YB2BFBKOOBCCHAVJIYUCQU46YY","type":"raw_html","addnal_properti":{"_id":"MPMCNBNNNJGVFMM53LXAYLK2BI","ments":[]},"ntent":"\n <div data-article-element-name=\"stand-out-box\" style=\"borr: 1px solid #979797; background-lor: whe; m-height: 100px; marg: 20px to; overflow: hidn\">\n <div style=\"\">\n \n <div style=\"posn: relative;\">\n \n <div class=\"standout-box\" style=\"posn: relative; paddg: 0 20px; lor: #16183a\">\n <h2 style=\"marg: 0; font-fay: Rgsi Connsed; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 500; le-height: 52px; lor: #2a262e\">Expert sourc</h2> \n <div style=\"background: #dcdcdc; height: 1px; width: 100%; marg-bottom: 10px\"></div>\n <ul style=\"marg: 0; paddg: 0 18px; list-style: disc;\">\n <li style=\"marg: 0; font-fay: Rgsi Regular SSm; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; le-height: 28.8px;\"><a data-lk-type=\"stand-out-box\" href=\""><strong>Dennis Mrice Dumpson</strong></a>, Philalphia Pri ftival anizer and founr of #INVESTBLK</li>\n <li style=\"marg: 0; font-fay: Rgsi Regular SSm; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; le-height: 28.8px;\"><a data-lk-type=\"stand-out-box\" href=\""><strong>Rebec Fisher</strong></a>, founr of <a data-lk-type=\"stand-out-box\" href=\"">Beyond the Bell Tours</a></li>\n <li style=\"marg: 0; font-fay: Rgsi Regular SSm; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; le-height: 28.8px;\"><a data-lk-type=\"stand-out-box\" href=\""><strong>Erik Larson</strong></a>, puty director, LGBT affairs, Cy of Philalphia</li>\n <li style=\"marg: 0; font-fay: Rgsi Regular SSm; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; le-height: 28.8px;\"><a data-lk-type=\"stand-out-box\" href=\""><strong>Bob Skiba</strong></a>, curator, John J. 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