The first gay pub I dared set foot now has a rabow plaque. Here’s why that matters | Gary Nunn | The Guardian

Contents:

• NEW BEDFORD GAY BAR OWNERS LOOK BACK ON 40 YEARS OF CHANGE THE UNTRY AND THE CY
• THE BEST BEDFORDSHIRE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BEDFORDSHIRE
• GAY PUB BEDFORD (NEW YORK)
• GAY BARS AND PUBS BEDFORD BEDFORDSHIRE
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• TEENAGER ATTACKS THREE MEN AT GAY BAR MASSACHETTS
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• GAY BARS AND PUBS BEDFORD BEDFORDSHIRE
• LOL GAY BAR - BEDFORD TAVERN

NEW BEDFORD GAY BAR OWNERS LOOK BACK ON 40 YEARS OF CHANGE THE UNTRY AND THE CY

Le Place was not the first gay bar New Bedford, but is the one that has lasted. “There’s been hundreds and hundreds of surprise parti, of birthday parti, of engagement parti, ” remembered Lucy, who said she and Pam (who died 2019) didn’t really start out to provi a safe place for the New Bedford gay muny but somehow that’s what their pub beme. They also opened another bar Fairhaven and a travel agency, but was Le Place that evolved to New Bedford’s gay mec.

“Beg the gay muny (myself), they all me to see me, ” lghed Lucy.

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In the early years, Le Place weathered vandals pullg fire alarms the middle of the night, punks openg their ont door and throwg firecrackers to the bar, someone settg the club on fire g ser smoke damage (New Bedford police solved the arson), and the horrifyg triple shootg and hatchet attack at Puzzl, Le Place’s oime fellow gay bar further up the street the North End. “Bee the gay muny was not accepted.

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Southast LGBTQ+ rtored the tradn of the tea danc at Le Place several years ago as a homage to the early years of the gay pri stggle. But as tim have changed and LGBTQ+ people have been more accepted and visible, the need for gay bars as a place of refuge has creased. “Yeah, ’s not let’s go to the gay bar, ’s let’s go to Le Place more now, ” she said.

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Frankly, I’d have served a prison jt for him to hold my hand, like he did his off-whe Vxhall Nova on the drive there, breakg only to change, he took me for strawberry cir the Gloucter, a pub at the park’s edge, takg my tremblg hand his and reassurg me: “It’s actually a gay bar.

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”After the strawberry cir, served by a man a tight whe vt – the only other gay man I’d seen real life – the squiggly summer sunlight ma a strobe effect through the park’s tre. The first time I saw wh him, when I was 18, I realised he had echoed the love story of the two protagonists, who also had their first kiss the twilight of Greenwich Park’s tre, and their first experience of a gay pub at the Gloucter.

The explanatn for his obssn is now clear: there was such a pcy of same-sex love stori that this was the first time many young people had seen a same-sex kiss, or peeked si an actual gay bar after dark. The project remds people “that we have always been here, good tim and bad, ” David Robson of the London LGBT+ Foms’ Network said when the plaqu were film and my own story were workg-class gay love: not dandyish and sheltered by the polse of privilege, but the btal realy of beg perceived a non-mascule boy. It was a powerful and rarely told tersectn – and one that, even more rarely, ends rather happily, wh a betiful scene of fiance and acceptance played to a Mama Cass waltz on the sk I disvered that I wasn’t the only wi-eyed baby gay my boyiend had been chasg through those ancient chtnuts that summer.

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For me, the plaque honours that private moment as well as the shared history of the LGBTQ+ ’s the msage I’d impart to anyone who thks such symbols are meangls, as the unique social history of the UK’s gay bars is endangered by gentrifitn, hook-up apps, the st of livg crisis and even assiatn.

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