On September 29, 1982, over thirty New York Cy police officers raid Blue’s, a bar Manhattan’s Tim Square. The followg year, activist Jam Credle ttified at ngrsnal heargs on police misnduct, scribg the btal beatgs of the Black and Lato gay men and trans people who ma up the bar’s mai
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- POLICE CHARGED WH FALSE ARRTS OF GAY MEN AT ADULT VIO STOR
- DEADLY STABBG OF GAY MAN AT NYC GAS STATN VTIGATED AS POTENTIAL HATE CRIME
ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
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The followg year, activist Jam Credle ttified at ngrsnal heargs on police misnduct, scribg the btal beatgs of the Black and Lato gay men and trans people who ma up the bar’s ma clientele.
The event galvanized lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) activists for whom police vlence was a primary ncern. Image om Liberatn NewsGay activist and journalist Arthur Bell wrote a ont-page story about the raid for the alternative weekly the Village Voice.
POLICE CHARGED WH FALSE ARRTS OF GAY MEN AT ADULT VIO STOR
There has been a sharp crease recently the number of gay men arrted for prostutn at adult vio stor Manhattan. Anger is buildg agast the police partment the wake of an crease arrts of gay men for prostutn at Manhattan adult vio stor.... * the blue nyc gay *
” Bell also noted the strikg ntrast between the raid and another prs-worthy event held that same night: a black tie dner, $150 a plate, sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF), a gay and lbian polil actn mtee, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel wh a keynote by former vice print Walter earlier, Bell had wrten about a much more famo police raid and rponse, which had taken place at the Stonewall Inn bar on June 28, 1969. At the time, police raids of gay bars were mon, and bar owners often sought protectn through payoffs to the police.
In rponse, many activists attempted to nvce the public that gay life was far om “unsirable” and uld even be seen as a valuable asset a cy which the disurs of crime and enomic cris had bee tightly tertwed. In September 1977, for example, the gay magaze Christopher Street featured a ver story tled “Can Gays Save New York Cy?
” that clud a picture of two men embracg a miaturized image of Lower Manhattan and asked, “How many neighborhoods Manhattan would be slums by now, had gay sgl and upl not moved and helped mata and upgra them? ” The magaze often addrsed self to the qutn of how gay men were rhapg the landspe of New York, regularly featurg New Yorker–style rtoons that poked fun at gay men who were velopg niche bs or at the supposed value of gayns to new forms of dtry.
DEADLY STABBG OF GAY MAN AT NYC GAS STATN VTIGATED AS POTENTIAL HATE CRIME
In a famoly liberal enclave, rints both gay and straight weigh eedom and acceptance agast mercial displays that schoolchildren mt walk past. * the blue nyc gay *
In another issue, the edors celebrated urban scholarship highlightg the learship of gay men “revalizatn” efforts, scribg their creativy, adaptabily, ego, and openns to risk-takg as key featur for achievg succs a speculatn-based many mentators, new gay vtment the central cy was unrstood to be part of a broar procs of middle-class revtment urban areas — what beme known as the “back-to-the-cy” movement. Often lled “gay gentrifitn, ” the phenomenon of new, ncentrated gay vtment was bated not only by gay journalists but also by cy boosters and velopers, scholars, and activists, many of whom lked the rise of gay social movements wh the growth of gay neighborhoods. The gay neighborhoods, they argued, provid a kd of protectn for those pg the prumed anti-gay sentiments of non-urban areas.