Gigi’s Celebrat 50 Years: The Olst Gay-Owned Gay Bar Detro Is Now a Half-Century Old - Pri Source

Contents:

• NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
• SAN FRANCIS’S OLST GAY BAR TO CLOSE S DOORS
• AMERI’S OLST GAY BAR IS TURNG 80
• GIGI’S CELEBRAT 50 YEARS: THE OLST GAY-OWNED GAY BAR DETRO IS NOW A HALF-CENTURY OLD
• HISTORIC GAY BAR SIGNATED AS NEW YORK CY LANDMARK
• MOLOTOV CKTAILS HURLED THROUGH WDOWS OF ONE OF AMERI’S OLST GAY BARS
• CLEVELAND'S PARADISE INN, ONE OF AMERI'S OLST GAY BARS, IS STILL FLYG THE FLAG AND WELG ALL

NYC'S OLST GAY BAR DIGNATED A LANDMARK FOR ITS HISTORY-MAKG ROLE ADVANCG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

This New Orleans bar proclaims self the olst nng gay bar the Uned Stat.

It’s more upsle than gay bars are today, but has been liverg brotherly love for s to fans of piano bars and good cktails. Stay: Check to nearby Fairfield Inn by Marrtt; ’s close to Woody’s, another favore gay bar Philalphia. This spot Wt Palm Beach is Florida’s olst gay bar.

In bs sce 1968, this Milwkee bar is the longt operatg gay bar the whole of Wisns. This Oakland spot claims to be the olst nng gay bar the U.

SAN FRANCIS’S OLST GAY BAR TO CLOSE S DOORS

Most visors are faiar wh Chigo’s Boystown (now North Halsted) neighborhood, but this bar on Chigo’s Southsi has been quietly terg to a largely gay and Black clientele sce the 1960s.

In fact, ’s one of the natn’s olst operatg Black-owned gay bars.

The Wt Village bar Juli' was the se of a 1966 "sip-" prott, when activists monstrated agast the closure of bars that served gay people. New York Cy's olst gay bar, Juli' Manhattan, is officially a landmark. In 1966, Juli' was the se of a "sip-, " when three activists protted the closure of bars that served gay people.

AMERI’S OLST GAY BAR IS TURNG 80

It’s been a bar sce 1910 and a gay bar sce at least 1961 but San Francis’s olst gay bar, Gangway, is the latt place to feel the force of gentrifitn the cy’s Tenrlo neighbourhood.

San Francis's olst gay bar Gangway to close. Gangway was one of several gay bars the Tenrlo, the cy’s ma gay hub for many years, most of which have now closed.

GIGI’S CELEBRAT 50 YEARS: THE OLST GAY-OWNED GAY BAR DETRO IS NOW A HALF-CENTURY OLD

There’s no fal word on what the bar will bee though another, non-gay bar looks most likely. This month, an unassumg gay dive on a quiet stretch of Telegraph Avenue near the Oakland-Berkeley borr officially turns 80 years old. The Whe Horse Inn, now dubbed WheHorse Bar, is generally thought to be the olst gay bar Ameri — or at least the olst ntuoly operatg one the same lotn — but s exact age, jt like that of many a va olr gay man, is likely to rema a mystery.

Official rerds put the bar’s openg 1933, as the Bay Area Reporter recently learned, jt after Prohibn end, but was likely a gay speakeasy years before that, as Prohibn was barely enforced the Bay Area and the buildg predat that year. As the San Francis Chronicle pots out, there’s another gay bar, Cafe Lafte New Orleans, which may be tied official age wh the Whe Horse, havg also “opened” cintally 1933, but has changed lotns once sce then. Long before gay marriage, or even livg openly, was a possibily, the Whe Horse served the East Bay’s LGBT muny.

HISTORIC GAY BAR SIGNATED AS NEW YORK CY LANDMARK

Like a number of other gay bars om the mid-twentieth century, the Whe Horse had no wdows to the street until jt a few years ago, datg as do to a time when homosexualy was a crimal offense.

(One San Francis bar, Tw Peaks Tavern, recently received landmark stat as the first gay bar the Bay Area to have glass walls to the street, sce 1972, and another the Castro district, the Midnight Sun, is about to unrgo a renovatn openg s ont wall, makg the last bar the neighborhood to do so.

) And throughout the more nservative postwar perd, the Whe Horse was spared om any police raids, possibly bee the owners paid off the ps, and possibly bee the Bay Area’s liberal attu toward homosexualy extend to fifti Oakland policians as well. The days the Whe Horse is an unpretent, suburban-feelg hangout, wh s pool tabl and jebox, that attracts a mix of olr gay and lbian regulars and the ocsnal gaggle of Berkeley unrgrads. Oakland’s Whe Horse gay bar turns 80 [Chron].

MOLOTOV CKTAILS HURLED THROUGH WDOWS OF ONE OF AMERI’S OLST GAY BARS

Ameri’s Olst Gay Bar Is Turng 80. Gigi’s, one of the most beloved and rpected gay bars on the Michigan map, is celebratg a tone few venu manage to reach — 50 years the bs. As was Rosalyn Delight, whose signature number was a Crystal Gayle parody lled “Donuts Make My Brown Ey Blue, ” durg which she actually threw donuts – day olds, I’m told, to the dience.

The bar’s gay roots date back to the very early 1970s. In 1973, 35-year-old Tony Garne, a former grocer, acquired the bar and turned all the way gay.

CLEVELAND'S PARADISE INN, ONE OF AMERI'S OLST GAY BARS, IS STILL FLYG THE FLAG AND WELG ALL

The Woodward Bar & Grill Midtown held the distctn of beg Detro’s olst gay bar until s untimely mise by a three-alarm fire last year.