Historic s, popular neighborhoods, and LGBTQ+-owned bars and rtrants Philalphia's Gayborhood and beyond.
Contents:
1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
In the send half of the twentieth century, the Center Cy Gayborhood formed the vicy of Loct and Thirteenth Streets. * gay history philadelphia *
Was a Prohibn-era speakeasy and “gentleman’s club” lled Maxe’s, where lol gay men, soldiers, and sailors would nverge. A lot of socializg among the cy’s queer rints durg the ’40s and ’50s happened at hoe parti anized by Quaker-affiliated groups, acrdg to thor Marc Ste, who vered the era his book “Cy of Sisterly and Brotherly Lov: Lbian and Gay Philalphia. “Saturday night is the gayt night of the week, ” read a story on the Rtenhoe queer scene Greater Philalphia Magaze.
THE HISTORY OF PHILALPHIA’S GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Unr Mayor Frank Rizzo, the cy put up signage around the Square to disurage gay people om cisg. In 1962, the Jan Society was found Philalphia, makg one of the first rerd and publicly known “homophile” anizatns the cy.
Dewey’s Rtenhoe lotn, on the other hand, would ny service, discrimatg agast “homosexuals, ” “mascule women, ” “feme men” and “persons wearg non-nformist clothg.
GAYBORHOOD
In 1968, then-Police Commissner Frank Rizzo orred raids on gay bars (and on anybody he emed “unsirable”), leadg many to be verbally and physilly abed by officers. The neighborhood that would eventually be monikered “the Gayborhood” by Cy Paper’s David Warner flourished immensely.