Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
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HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
By the mid-1920s, at the height of the Prohibn era, they were attractg as many as 7, 000 people of var rac and social class—gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and straight alike.
RAISG THE BAR: A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY BARS
Stonewall (1969) is often nsired the begng of forward progrs the gay rights movement.
The Begngs of a New Gay World“In the late 19th century, there was an creasgly visible prence of genr-non-nformg men who were engaged sexual relatnships wh other men major Amerin ci, ” says Chad Heap, a profsor of Amerin Studi at Gee Washgton Universy and the thor of Slummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940. By the 1920s, gay men had tablished a prence Harlem and the bohemian mec of Greenwich Village (as well as the seedier environs of Tim Square), and the cy’s first lbian enclav had appeared Harlem and the Village.