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Chuck Thompson bought Cruise Magazine from long-time owner Tony Rome in the late 1990s. Rome was a founding member of the Detroit Bar Guild. Here the…
Bars and Nightclubs
At the time of this photo, the State Bar was still considered mixed, serving both straight and gay patrons. Wait staff seated customers they perceived…
African Americans
Born in Springfield, IL, Ellis grew up to host popular house parties for African American lesbians and gay men in Detroit during the 1940s and 1950s,…
Bars and Nightclubs
Ralph O'Reilly and Ralph Stallings met at a cocktail party in 1949. After living in Detroit for ten years, the couple moved to a farmhouse in…
Bars and Nightclubs
Karagas played host at his brother William's Woodward Bar in Detroit from its opening in 1954 until Andy's death at age 76 in 1997.
Bars and Nightclubs
Detroit's Palmer Park neighborhood became a magnet for gays in the late 1970s and early 1980s which lead to the establishment of many businesses and…
Bars and Nightclubs
W. Dorr Legg helped found the homophile organization ONE and its magazine in the early 1950s. William Kern, a.k.a. Bill Dakota, a member of ONE,…
Bars and Nightclubs
In her pioneering University of Michigan dissertation, Gayle Rubin traces the history and style of San Francisco's leather community from Marlon…
Bars and Nightclubs
In her pioneering University of Michigan dissertation, Gayle Rubin traces the history and style of San Francisco's leather community from Marlon…
Bars and Nightclubs
At the time of this photo, the State Bar was still considered mixed, serving both straight and gay patrons. Wait staff seated customers they perceived…