Darryl DePiano – at 51, out and married to a much younger man – is facg perhaps the most challengg tt sce g to terms wh his sexualy a ago. Two months ago, a vio surfaced of the iCandy nightclub owner g the n-word– and tensns explod the Gayborhood. He sat down for an exclive terview wh PhillyVoice.
Contents:
- 'GO THE F*** HOME!': WOMAN REPEATEDLY SCREAMS BLOODY MURR, DROPS F-BOMBS ON ANTI-ABORTN STREET PREACHER SEATTLE 'GAYBORHOOD'
- EXCLUSIVE: ICANDY OWNER BREAKS SILENCE ON VIO THAT LNCHED RACIAL FIRTORM THE GAYBORHOOD
- IS REAL EQUALY FALLY COMG TO THE GAYBORHOOD?
- SLUR VIO EXPOS RACIAL RIFTS INIC GAY ENCLAVE
- GAYBORHOODS AREN'T AD. IN FACT, THERE ARE MORE OF THEM THAN YOU THK.
- CELEBRATE PRI MONTH THE 5 U.S. GAYBORHOODS
- GAYBORHOOD
- THERE GO THE GAYBORHOOD
'GO THE F*** HOME!': WOMAN REPEATEDLY SCREAMS BLOODY MURR, DROPS F-BOMBS ON ANTI-ABORTN STREET PREACHER SEATTLE 'GAYBORHOOD'
* gayborhood viral video *
The woman turned up the heat on the street preacher a ltle more, as she explaed to him ont of a rabow-lored siwalk an even higher-pched squeal that "this is the Gayborhood, and you are not wele!
Growg up North Jersey the 1970s, beg lled “faggot” was par for the urse for a gay kid the much anyone who wasn’t a straight, whe Prottant du was the butt of ethnic and relig slurs the sleepy, blue-llar bedroom muni jt outsi of Manhattan. Crowd jams hearg full of allegatns about racism Philly's LGBT munyCyndi Lper, McGty, Renll to attend Gayborhood bar crawlBorn to a nservative Italian Catholic fay a few years before the Stonewall Rt would redraw the directn of gay rights a dive bar jt across the Hudson River, Darryl DePiano didn’t fd the urage to e out of the closet until he was his 40s. His worst fear was that his parents would fd out he was gay and that he would be monized the straight nightlife and nstctn bs that he had built om nothg.
EXCLUSIVE: ICANDY OWNER BREAKS SILENCE ON VIO THAT LNCHED RACIAL FIRTORM THE GAYBORHOOD
Long-simmerg racial tensns Philalphia's "gayborhood" have reached a boil after the release of a vio which a club owner repeatedly utters a racial slur. * gayborhood viral video *
PhillyGayCalendar/via YouTubeDarryl DePianoSurroundg the club owner are two large flat-screen TVs wh more than two dozen vios streamg om meras posned and around the club.
Natalie Hope McDonald/via Instagram Protters gather outsi of the iCandy nightclub the Gayborhood after the vio surfaced. At the very least, the vio has given this plex discsn a tangible startg pot, even though many of the issu go back more than 30 years, back to when the Gayborhood first beme what would be today.
A surprisg revelatn, perhaps, is that DePiano, the man known now for his racist ments, had been workg wh the Office of LGBT Affairs – and Nellie Fzpatrick, s executive director – to addrs issu of race the Gayborhood long before the vio surfaced.
IS REAL EQUALY FALLY COMG TO THE GAYBORHOOD?
Gayborhoods aren't dyg but have shifted to cultural archipelagos: a seri of queer islands, nnected by sexualy and genr. * gayborhood viral video *
DePiano submted both a missn statement and tails about the club, cludg the makp of the staff, which, fairns, clus a variety of straight, gay, lbian and transgenr people of all lor.
SLUR VIO EXPOS RACIAL RIFTS INIC GAY ENCLAVE
Is Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc. streamg Gayborhood? Fd out where to watch seasons onle now! * gayborhood viral video *
Select promoters the Gayborhood have pulled events om the club recent weeks, while others have stayed loyal, cludg many drag acts. After what n only be scribed as a very long and tense few months for iCandy and other bs that have been lled out for everythg om door polici to drs s, the vio, the protts, and the subsequent apologi seem to have put some much-need ntext on an issue that certaly isn’t limed to the Gayborhood or Philalphia.
GAYBORHOODS AREN'T AD. IN FACT, THERE ARE MORE OF THEM THAN YOU THK.
Gayborhood: Wh Anna Schlegel, Drew H. Nixon, Chris Fowler, Andrew Kudla. REVRY's first origal seri, "Gayborhood" is a full-length mock-realy seri set Chigo's LGBTQ neighborhood. Usg satire and over-the-top humor, "Gayborhood" provis an irreverent mentary on the current state of realy TV and queer culture - all seen through the lens of a wacky and outrageo band of iends livg this vibrant neighborhood. Narcissistic drag queens, sex addicts, "fish out of water" Midwt gay folk, and - of urse - everyone's favore, love-starved, gal pal all make up the Gayborhood." data-id="ma * gayborhood viral video *
” The chant roared through a bullhorn on September 23, 2016, as a group of 15 mostly black and Latx LGBTQ people took to the Gayborhood, rryg signs while chalkg the rabow-flagged streets.
CELEBRATE PRI MONTH THE 5 U.S. GAYBORHOODS
” The revelatn set off an vtigatn and a public hearg by the Philalphia Commissn on Human Relatns that would force cy ernment — and the Gayborhood’s entrenched whe power stcture — to fally acknowledge the tth: Racism Philalphia’s LGBTQ muny was real and urgently need to be the past two years, I’ve had a ont-row seat at what’s been happeng the Gayborhood, first as a member of the muny, then as a wrer voicg my opn on what was wrong, and fally as a journalist. Bayard Rt, the late black gay civil rights lear om Wt Chter, once said, “We need every muny a group of angelic troublemakers.
•Gayborhood racism was first officially reported back May 1986 wh the publitn of “Racial Discrimatn Lbian and Gay Bars Philalphia: A Report on Admissn and Employment Polici and Practic.
” The report was produced by the Coaln on Lbian-Gay Bar Polici, a llectn of lol LGBTQ social jtice anizatns that was seekg muny terventn a racial problem that persisted, ironilly, even as gay liberatn was advancg. The aln had been formed 1984 after several muny patrons observed the racial segregatn at popular Gayborhood bars and the practic that abetted .
GAYBORHOOD
While the aln ma remendatns light of the report, they were never, the Gayborhood is more than jt a space for bars and pri paras. ) The Gayborhood now has ordated polil actn groups, an openly gay state reprentative (Brian Sims), and the Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs.
When I moved to Philalphia the summer of 2010 to attend the Universy of Pennsylvania, I imaged the Gayborhood as a kd of mec which I uld explore my full self.
Even though our cy had a lbian mayor, Annise Parker, I was still told by those around me that “whe people n afford to be gay. In May 2015, a year after graduatg om Penn, I wrote a gut op-ed for Metro tled “Black Not Fetch Enough for Woody’s?, ” about Gayborhood racism. I was then a new eelance wrer and didn’t realize that my article was the first time s that a Gayborhood bar had been lled out that way.
THERE GO THE GAYBORHOOD
•Coverg Gayborhood racism revealed to me that my personal experienc the muny were typil of those of LGBTQ people of lor. I saw the tratn the ey of Marc Berry, a young black gay club-goer who told me he “felt as though [the bouncer] was implyg that the boots ma my outf ghetto, or not classy enough, ” when he was rejected om ICandy for wearg Timberland boots.
Ortiz-Fonse, a longtime Latx muny advote I terviewed durg the ntroversy surroundg the Gayborhood’s “Philly4Pulse” fund-raiser for victims of the Orlando nightclub shootgs; he said the lack of Latx anizers for the event ma those the muny feel like “an afterthought.
” I shared the betrayal exprsed by Kemar Jewel, a popular Gayborhood performer who believed that his beg turned away at Woody’s for wearg sweatpants was “vert racism.