Posts tagged gay history
New Wrinkle for a Fixture of Gay Life: “We must all support longshoremen/gay bars … There are not too many left.” (NYT)
“Dixie’s bar in 1950s New Orleans, one of the few places in the South where gay men and lesbians could gather openly.” (via The Gay Bar: Is It Dying? @ Slate)
Christopher Street Gay Liberation Parade, New York
1971
(via MeInSanFran @ flickr)
Gay Freedom 1970: “I found this book in a dumpster off Bleecker street, and it is a miracle it has survived. A lost document that shows the SECOND GAY PRIDE MARCH in 1970! What a crowd! Must be a couple of hundred people. See anyone you know?” (hellfirepress.com)
Judy Garland’s death certificate
22 June 1969
(via findadeath.com; see previously)
The Faggot, 1973: “A show written and directed by Al Carmines, an accomplished off-Broadway musical writer and minister at the Judson Memorial Church, it explored gay and lesbian identity in relation to the heterosexual world. Carmines’ show wasn’t slathered with nudity, yet it remained a frank plea to understand gay lib, and played with many sexual stereotypes, complications and scenarios within the community”
- From Come In My Mouth: The Story of the Adult Musicals of the ‘70’s @ furious.com; see also
A Stonewall Veteran, 89, Misses the Parade: “The woman in Room 609, Storme DeLarverie, has dementia. She is but one anonymous elderly New Yorker in a city with thousands upon thousands of them. And many of those who marched down Fifth Avenue on Sunday would be hard pressed to realize that this little old lady — once the cross-dressing M.C. of a group of drag-queen performers, once a fiercely protective (and pistol-packing) bouncer in the city’s lesbian bars — was one of the reasons they were marching. Ms. DeLarverie fought the police in 1969 at the historic riot at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village that kicked off the gay rights movement … Some writers believe Ms. DeLarverie may have been the cross-dressing lesbian whose clubbing by the police was the catalyst for the riots (the woman has never been identified). While others are adamant that Ms. DeLarverie was not that woman, no one disputes that she was there, and no one doubts that the woman who had been fighting back all her life fought back in the summer of 1969.” (NYT)
John d’Addario
Pepper La Beija, Gay Pride Parade, NYC
1993*
*Ed. note: I can’t believe I took this photo 17 years ago.
