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Contents:

• GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS PHILALPHIA
• GAY HOTELS PHILALPHIA
• GAY PHILALPHIA
• GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS PHILALPHIA
• HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS
• GAY PENNSYLVANIA TRAVEL GUI
• PHILLY GAYBORHOOD AND LGBTQ HISTORY WALKG TOUR

GET YOUR HISTORY STRAIGHT AND YOUR NIGHTLIFE GAY®

Get Your History Straight and Your Nightlife Gay®.

Standg directly across the street om Inpennce Hall, a historic marker honors the Annual Remrs, the monstratn held at this se led by gay activists on July 4 om 1965 to 1969, the last of which occurred jt days after the history-makg Stonewall Rts. Philalphia was the first cy the Uned Stat to lnch a major marketg mpaign (“Get Your History Straight and Your Nightlife Gay®”) to wele LGBTQ+ tourism, and reprents a trove of cultural, culary, artistic and ethnic diversy. Don’t miss a vis to the Gayborhood, a Center Cy neighborhood that sets self apart wh rabow street signs as well as rtrants and bars owned by and terg to LGBTQ+-intified clientele.

Historic s, popular neighborhoods, and LGBTQ+-owned bars and rtrants Philalphia's Gayborhood and beyond...

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS PHILALPHIA

The Cy of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affectn hosted the untry’s first major monstratn for gay rights, the Annual Remrs, 1965. And today, Philly visors n easily explore s where LGBTQ+ history was ma and where queer life ntu to thrive, pecially the cy’s Gayborhood and durg annual events like Philly Pri 365. The Gayborhood.

The center of Philalphia’s gay rintial life and culture sce World War II, the blocks between 11th and Broad streets and Pe and Chtnut streets earned their nickname — the “Gayborhood”— durg an October Outft event 1995.

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You have your choice of fabulo entertament and diversns as the bars and nightclubs of the Gayborhood e alive each night. Shoppg the Gayborhood. Sce 2015, the brilliant rabow crosswalks at the tersectn of 13th and Loct Streets have served as an sential Gayborhood landmark.

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Take a guid tour through the Gayborhood and learn more about the cy’s queer history wh help om Beyond the Bell Tour. The group’s LGBTQ and Trans History tours reunt the stori of Gay Liberatn Front – Philalphia founr Kiyoshi Kuromiya, explore morn history and current social issu the neighborhood, and stop at important muny s like the Attic Youth Center, which supports LGBTQ+ youth experiencg homelsns. The Gayborhood got a h new mural at the start of Pri Month 2021 when muralist Ash Ryan fished this three-story-tall tribute to pop star Lil Nas X.

GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS PHILALPHIA

Historic Gayborhood Markers. Get your history straight wh historic LGBTQ+ markers sprkled throughout the Gayborhood, cludg:. In 1965, the Universy of Pennsylvania expelled Fryer om his psychiatric rincy program on the basis of his homosexualy, which was then classified as a mental illns by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA).

In 1972, Fryer, a faculty member at the Temple Universy School of Medice, offered an electrifyg anonymo ttimony that rulted the APA’s 1973 classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Philalphia Gay News Marker: This marker stands ont of the first office of the Philalphia Gay News, one of the natn’s most award-wng weekly newspapers.

HE TRAVEL – GAY TRAVEL TOURS, GAY ADVENTURE TRAVEL, ACTIVE VATNS

Inpennce Hall was the se of the untry’s earlit anized recurrg gay rights monstratns, begng July 4, 1965. Meetg atten planned the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. 3rd Street to the gay activists who found the cy’s first LGBTQ+ ffeehoe.

GAY PENNSYLVANIA TRAVEL GUI

Like most gay men the first half of the 20th century, Locke remaed closeted throughout his life. A pneer the LGBTQ+ rights movement, Gtgs, a Philalphia rint om age 18 and a lifetime activist, eded The Ladr, the natn’s first lbian magaze; -anized the Annual Remrs at Inpennce Hall (see above) and led charg both to promote posive LGBTQ+ lerature public librari and to change the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Across Broad Street, a sign at 13th and Loct streets the Gayborhood clar the thoroughfare Barbara Gtgs Way.

It’s where radil gay llective Gazoo found Philalphia’s Gay Liberatn Front and where bisexual blu sger Bsie Smh performed at the Royal Theatre, an early 20th-century Black-owned cultural center. Today, the street’s known for s Magic Garns, cheteak shops and hangouts, cludg dive bar extraordaire Bob & Barbara’s Lounge, home of one of Philly’s bt-loved drag shows; the punk art LGBTQ+ haven Tattooed Mom; and the eclectic, gay-owned boutique shop Workshop Unrground.

PHILLY GAYBORHOOD AND LGBTQ HISTORY WALKG TOUR

There's an official "Gayborhood" smack dab Center Cy wh rabow-emblazoned street signs ( ns om 11th to Broad Street and Chtnut to Pe Street), while two other districts have bee the home and stompg grounds of LGBTQ lols recent years: South Philly's East Passyunk and, to the cy's northeast, buzzg hipster haven Fishtown.

A trailblazer for LGBT-foced tourism efforts, 2003 saw the lnch of an extensive tourism mpaign and mercial, "Get Your History Straight And Your Nightlife Gay, " while Vis Philalphia's webse hosts a robt, dited LGBTQ rource page wh helpful articl and pdf downloads, pl updated events listgs (also check out up-to-the-mute webse, Philly Gay Listgs). 2018 and 2019's O le-ups clud works om gay morn dance legend Bill T. A vis to the untry's olst LGBTQ bookstore, Gvanni's Room, is a mt when explorg the Gayborhood.

Gay-owned Philly bath and body shop Duross & Langel giv Lh a n for their money wh extensive le of lic-smellg, handma solid and liquid soaps, shampoos, bath bombs, and other groomg products. Also do some wdow shoppg along South Philly's East Passyunk Avenue, another facto "gayborhood, " wh a drk, snack, and people watchg break at Barcelona We Bar: look for the marquee wh an Osr Wil quote.