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Contents:

• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• THE BT GAY BARS NEAR ME CCNATI, OH
• TOP 10 BT GAY BARS NEAR TAA, WASHGTON
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE 10 BEST MASSACHETTS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MASSACHETTS
• GAY BARS NEAR ME
• GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• GAY MARSEILLE
• MARSEILLE GAY
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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Buddi Private Men’s Club is a private club tablished December 2003 exclively for men sharg homosexual monstrated by the followg history of homosexualy, the Buddi Private Club’s roots n ep. Throughout history those sharg homosexual terts have formed clubs, societi and special lotns to share and explore their tert the seventeenth century, homosexualy has been the target of nmnatn and discrimatory laws, public polici, social ctoms, and cultural beliefs. By makg gay men and lbians the object of srn, this hostily has kept much homosexual behavr hidn.

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Until the thirteenth century, the Christian tradn was ambiguo s attu toward homosexualy. In every lony, sodomy was a pal offense—at least five men were executed durg this era—and other homosexual acts, om “sodomil practic” to lewdns between women, were punished wh whippgs and f. But officials tend to sgle out homosexual offens for pecially severe the Amerin Revolutn, although the stat reformed their crimal s the spir of Enlightenment philosophy, revisn of the sodomy statut and the “crim agast nature” laws me very slowly; North Carola did not elimate pal punishment until 1869.

”In the late neteenth century, medil science add to the negative evaluatn of homosexualy.

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The medil profsn grew fluence, and almost whout exceptn, Amerin physicians diagnosed homosexualy as a form of illns. A prolific medil lerature, as well as rerds of treatment, suggt that many doctors viewed homosexualy wh dread. One physician scribed a se of homosexualy as “shockg to every sense of cency, disgtg and revoltg, ” phras that he surely would not have applied to a se of pnmonia or yellow medil mol gathered still more force the mid-twentieth century.

Studi of their applitn reveal patterns of selective enforcement that sgled out male homosexuals. In Sux Cy, Iowa, for stance, the late 1950s, the district attorney, employg a psychopath law, mted twenty-ne male homosexuals to asylums.

By the middle of the century only murr, rape, and kidnappg eliced heavier penalti of any sort than did private nsensual sexual shiftg fns of homosexualy, om sful crimal act to diseased ndn, have poted historians toward important theoretil formulatns, pecially the distctn between homosexual acts, which n be documented across history and culture, and homosexual inti. In the Uned Stat seems apparent that an important change occurred the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri, when a morn gay inty began to take the lonial era, some dividuals experienced homosexual sire. Ined, much of the evince of homosexual behavr that surviv urt rerds pots to s existence wh marriage.

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His se was not the neteenth century, as Amerin life was rtctured part around the separatn of female and male spher, and as sexualy me to be unrstood romantic, spirualized terms, homosexual sire often occurred the ntext of tense, passnate iendships which physil timacy was exprsed un-self-nscly. ”Late the century, as large ci allowed for greater anonymy, as wage labor apart om fay beme mon, and as more women were drawn out of the home, evince of a new pattern of homosexual exprsn surfaced. Among men and women and across the spectm of class and occupatn, dividuals were anizg their personal liv around their homosexual attractns.

The doctors who wrote about homosexualy durg the s veloped their theori through se histori of men and women whose liv exhibed the new first, the dividuals veloped ways of meetg one another and stutns to foster a sense of inty.

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By 1915, one participant this new gay world was referrg to as “a muny distctly anized.

” For the most part hidn om view bee of social hostily, an urban gay subculture had e to existence by the 1920s and War II served as a cril divi the social history of homosexualy. It beme easier for gay men and women to meet others, explore the gay world, and form extensive iendship works.

As one young gay man, Donald Vg, scribed his diary, “The war is a tragedy to my md and soul, but to my physil beg, ’s a memorable experience. ” In many ways, the war was somethg of a natnwi “g out” for the war, many of them ma choic signed to support their gay inti. They, along wh untls others, staed a vibrant gay subculture that revolved around bars and iendship works.

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Durg the ld war era, as the natn searched for spegoats, homosexuals were labeled a danger to society. Senate vtigatns portrayed a homosexual menace that was as threateng to Amerin strength and secury as munism. The FBI began a surveillance program agast lead taken by the feral ernment enuraged lol police forc to harass gay cizens.

Vice officers regularly raid gay bars, sometim arrtg dozens of men and women on a sgle night. C., exceed one thoand per year; Philalphia, mismeanor charg agast gay men and lbians averaged one hundred a month.

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Wicha, Dallas, Memphis, and Seattle were among the ci that wnsed extensive antigay offensiv.

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In some ci, such as Boise, Idaho, the fear of homosexualy led to a virtual the ndns, some gays began to anize polilly.

In the 1950s, the anizatns remaed small, but they tablished chapters several ci and published magaz that were a bean of hope to their the 1960s, fluenced by the mol of a ant black civil rights movement, the “homophile movement, ” as participants dubbed , beme more visible.

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By 1969, perhaps fifty homophile anizatns existed the Uned Stat, wh memberships of a few, on Friday eveng, June 27, 1969, the police New York Cy raid a Greenwich Village gay bar, the Stonewall Inn.

Contrary to expectatns, the patrons fought back, provokg three nights of rtg the area acpanied by the appearance of “gay power” slogans on buildgs. Owg much to the radil prott of blacks, women, and llege stunts the 1960s, gays challenged all the forms of hostily and punishment meted out by society.

By 1973, there were almost eight hundred gay and lbian anizatns the Uned Stat; by 1990, the number was several thoand. In 1970, 5, 000 gay men and lbians marched New York Cy to memorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Rts; October 1987, over 600, 000 marched Washgton to mand chang were far-reachg.

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Over the next two s half the stat crimalized homosexual behavr, and police harassment was sharply ntaed. In 1974, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn elimated homosexualy om s list of mental illns; the followg year, the Civil Service Commissn elimated the ban on the employment of homosexuals most feral jobs.

Many of the natn’s relig nomatns engaged spired bat about the moraly of homosexualy, and some, like Unarianism and Reformed Judaism, opened their doors to gay and lbian misters and rabbis.

The lbian and gay world was no longer an unrground subculture but, larger ci pecially, a well-anized muny, wh bs, polil clubs, social service agenci, muny centers, and relig ngregatns brgg people together.

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In a number of plac, openly gay ndidat ran for elective office and chang spawned opposn. In 1977, the sger Ana Bryant led a mpaign to repeal a gay rights ordance Da County, Florida. Her succs enuraged others, and by the early 1980s, a well-anized nservative force had materialized to target the gay rights movement.

Policians, such as Senator Jse Helms of North Carola, and fundamentalist misters, such as Jerry Falwell of Lynchburg, Virgia, who formed Moral Majory, Inc., joed forc to slow the progrs of the gay onset of the AIDS epimic the 1980s, although tensified the antigay rhetoric of the New Right, also stimulated further anizg wh the gay muny. Wh a large majory of the s strikg male homosexuals, the gay muny short orr created a host of anizatns, such as the Gay Men’s Health Crisis New York Cy, to provi servic and assistance to those fected. Lol and natnal gay civil rights groups also grew size and number, as the muny sought to crease fundg for rearch and tn and to w protectn agast discrimatn.

A personal and social tragedy of immense proportns, AIDS paradoxilly strengthened the polil arm of the gay rult of the chang wrought by the gay movement was the gradual regnn that gay men and lbians had ma important ntributns to Amerin society, culture, and polics prev eras. The work of such lerary figur as Walt Whman, Willa Cather, and Langston Hugh was reterpreted the light of their homosexualy.