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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
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WH THE WOODWARD’S FUTURE UNCERTA, TAKG STOCK OF DETRO'S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
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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!
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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. “The first gay neighborhood was downtown along Monroe Street the cy’s theater district, ” Haller told the crowd.
CURSID: DID DETRO EVER HAVE A ‘GAYBORHOOD’?
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.
“There were 45 gay bars and five steam baths, ” Torchy said.
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THE STATE OF GAY
“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.
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.