Hundreds Remisce About Historil Detro Gay Bar Scene - Pri Source

Contents:

• HUNDREDS REMISCE ABOUT HISTORIL DETRO GAY BAR SCENE
• WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
• GAY DETRO TRAVEL GUI
• CURSID: DID DETRO EVER HAVE A ‘GAYBORHOOD’?
• MOVG TO LGBT DETRO, MICHIGAN? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• THE STATE OF GAY

HUNDREDS REMISCE ABOUT HISTORIL DETRO GAY BAR SCENE

From downtown Detro to Royal Oak, Gay-Friendly nightlife reigns supreme. Gay-Friendly Bars & Clubs Metro Detro. As one of the olst gay spac Detro, this spot is te to s gay roots but is always open to anyone who wants to jo the fun.

Loted the former gay mec of Detro, Palmer Park, the plex clus the Menjo’s Bar, the Eagle Leather Bar, and the Olymp Theater. It’s fely the place for a night of gay-oriented entertament — the bt kd! Gigi's Gay Bar.

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

One of the bt gay and drag bars the cy, Gigi’s is optimal for drks and a show.

Ferndale has been the center of gay life Detro sce the 2000s and Soho is the classy yet sual spot for gay men, women and everyone between right the heart of the downtown area off Wt Ne Mile Road. Whether you’re gay, straight, bi, trans, or queer, the are great tablishments to make a night of and teract wh a diverse muny. The first a three-part seri of panel discsns, this one on the history gay bars Detro, drew a crowd of more than 250 people to the Olymp Theater Saturday night.

GAY DETRO TRAVEL GUI

“The first gay neighborhood was downtown along Monroe Street the cy’s theater district, ” Haller told the crowd. Sappgton enjoyed gog to gay bars long before she created her Metra magaze, which would chronicle the gay bar scene 1979.

“I always hung out gay bars, ” Sappgton said. “I had a hair shop Romeo, Michigan, and I advertised the only gay paper that I knew of, which was Metro Gay News.

“Too many plac gave a hard time bee we were gay, ” Sappgton said. Torchy talked to the crowd about the magnu of the gay bar scene Detro the 1970s.

CURSID: DID DETRO EVER HAVE A ‘GAYBORHOOD’?

“There were 45 gay bars and five steam baths, ” Torchy said. But, size or not, there was a st to dog bs wh the gay muny.

“Even if you go back far enough you’ll fd was illegal to serve a known homosexual at a bar anyway. 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.

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.

MOVG TO LGBT DETRO, MICHIGAN? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

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. 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.

THE STATE OF GAY

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.