In the send half of the twentieth century, the Center Cy Gayborhood formed the vicy of Loct and Thirteenth Streets.
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1920S AND 30S: GAY BARS SURFACE
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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.
THE HISTORY OF PHILALPHIA’S GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
“Saturday night is the gayt night of the week, ” read a story on the Rtenhoe queer scene Greater Philalphia Magaze.
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.
GAYBORHOOD
Dewey’s Rtenhoe lotn, on the other hand, would ny service, discrimatg agast “homosexuals, ” “mascule women, ” “feme men” and “persons wearg non-nformist clothg.
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.