Culture Lt ntributor Randy Dotga disvers a memoir by an opnated straight woman bold enough to n a gay bar the 1950s. He also looks at the gay nightlife scene San Diego durg the 50s.
Contents:
- MIDNIGHT FOR NEW YORK’S 1960S GAY COMMUNY?
- QUEEN CY COM OUT: EXPLORG SEATTLE'S LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY, BY THE NORTHWT LBIAN & GAY HISTORY MM PROJECT
- RUNNG A GAY BAR THE 1950S
- POLICE ED TO RAID GAY BARS. NOW THEY MARCH PRI PARAS.
- PRIVATE AND PUBLIC: GAY BARS NEW YORK CY BEFORE 1970S
MIDNIGHT FOR NEW YORK’S 1960S GAY COMMUNY?
It was a rough, problematic, turbulent world for the bars and their gay ’s when young sger Trevor Copeland arrived New York and stumbled to a relatnship wh pianist and poser Arthur. The third is the story of the police crackdown on illegal gay bars the 1960s, culmatg the famo Stonewall raid of June 28, 1969, that led to rts, the start of the gay rights movement and a new day for the gay muny.
Midnight at the Never Get has a lot of drama , pecially for anyone who was around the 1960s and was an eyewns to the police war on the gay muny. Rerd pani the 1960s also sisted that lyrics nnected to gay life be cut out or, more likely, rewrten slightly to turn the gay love stori to heterosexual story of police harassment of gays bars the 1960s is told well.
QUEEN CY COM OUT: EXPLORG SEATTLE'S LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY, BY THE NORTHWT LBIAN & GAY HISTORY MM PROJECT
The mob saw the gay clubs as a gold me bee no one plaed of ndns there, pretty dismal at tim, bee was an oasis om a cel world.
RUNNG A GAY BAR THE 1950S
Until Stonewall, the gangsters knew how to al wh the police, too, and that benefted gay batn of the police raids on gay bars, anized crime and the actured relatnship between Trevor and Arthur at the end of the play works nicely. Arthur is not as worried for jtice for gays as he is havg his reer ed by the do not n out at midnight, but go on betifully, jt as the play do.
POLICE ED TO RAID GAY BARS. NOW THEY MARCH PRI PARAS.
The Queen Cy Bs Guild, an anizatn of bar owners that would eventually bee today’s Greater Seattle Bs Associatn, as well as the Uned Ebony Council, a black gay male anizatn found 1975, and part of the Court of Seattle wh s emprs and royalty, both ed the Mombo for early anizatnal meetgs.
In addn to tradnal tnal efforts such as a newsletter, the Dorian Society had a speakers bure to speak Seattle public schools, appeared on rad programs, led tours of gay bars for a program lled Urban Plunge, and hosted drag balls.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC: GAY BARS NEW YORK CY BEFORE 1970S
This strikg image is a remr that the work of homophile anizatns like the Dorian Society and the Third Name Society (a women’s anizatn) were already makg signifint efforts toward gay and lbian visibily. Like most bars Seattle both gay and straight alike, was subject to the “blue laws” preventg activi rangg om patrons holdg drks while standg up, or the number of chairs at the bar.