... Gay & Loving It With Pride in New York City June 2011.” In honor of Pride Month Two Thousand Eleven we are taking it to the streets with pre-recorded interviews, history tidbits, LGBT Art, LGBT Culture, LGBT Music and chats with Christopher Street youth June 5th -12th airing on the 19th Live for three hours. All the different aspects of our community and the different contributions to society our community gives. What does Pride mean to you? If you would like to be involved in the series contact Pride@QueerPublicRadio.com. Join us every Sunday in the month of June (Pride [...]
Remnants of Past Christopher Street 2011
... the doorman, and the other a bar patron) and wounded six others. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a high security mental institution. Next to the Ramrod Bar stood a small house that dates back to 1790 known as the oyster house which was later Sneakers bar until it closed around 2005. At the corner of Christopher and Weehawken Streets stood Badlands bar featured in the movie Cruising with Al Pacino, became video porn outlet by the same name, now closed. Across Christopher Street stood the Cockring (a former chicken fighting spot turned gay [...]
Katherine Hepburn and the West Village
... I left her in the dust so fast it wasn’t funny! I lost my mind because I was and still am a sucker for all things Hollywood and at that time the only stars I’d ever seen were the one’s I’d payed to see in concert! Sure enough there she was, 3 feet in front of me. It was just her and an older couple, enjoying themselves on a warm evening in the West Village, walking slowly, looking in all the windows and guess where they went? They walked from 7th avenue all the way down Christopher Street to [...]
NYC 1983
... scared to go home when it’s dark so I spend the winter running home during the day to sleep, getting up and ready for the night which I spend at the office waiting for calls or at the clubs. It’s a very cold winter. Then I meet G. Butch but soft with it. Rides a bike and drinks hard. She’s completely insane, yelling at dudes on the street when they are pissing in public, one of them is gonna kill her one of these days. She’s got an apartment in the Village near Christopher Street and she hangs out [...]
Pride 1981 Lesbian and Gay Pride Pinback Button
... Vintage early 1980′s New Wave Lesbian and Gay Pride Button/Pin back from 1981 CSLDC (Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee). The Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee was the founders of the Gay Pride March committee in New York City. In 1984 the committee disbanded and was replaced by the Heritage of Pride, which has run the New York City Pride march ever since. Contributed to backinthegays.com by John of Montclair N.J. Thank ...
Where Were You When You First Heard This? 1980
... it the Eagles’s Nest? Ramrod? Spike? Danny’s on Christopher Street? Ty’s? Keller’s? Or was it your neighborhood Bar or Club? Let us know World wide. Lipps Inc – Funky Town (HQ-Audio,Stereo), Courtesy of djmambito. Thank ...
Join the “Club” nYc 1971 – 1983
... The baths offered lockers or rooms on the upper floors and a large orgy room on the top floor. They offered two steam baths ( Hot and Hotter), a hot tub and showers. On the first floor there was a comfortable lounge with an ample TV and shag rug (for shagging). The baths also offered a glassed in winter garden with lush greenery and faux bird calls. In the 1970′s the Club baths were managed by Bob Kohler ( 1926- 2007) an early LGBT activist and former owner the Loft store on Christopher Street. In 1975 a famous Lesbian writer [...]