1890 Republican Party newspaper the New York Press prints an article about "The Wickedest Place" in New York, The Slide (157 Bleecker St., between Thompson and Sullivan Sts.), which it claims is nightly full of males "not worthy the name of man. They are effeminate, degraded and addicted to vices which are inhuman and unnatural."
1892 "It is a fact," reports the New York Herald, "that The Slide and the unspeakable nature of the orgies practised there are a matter of common talk among men who are bent on taking in the town, making a night of it"; the place is promptly closed.
1894 In the book The Doctor and the Devil, or the Midnight Adventures of Dr. Parkhurst, author Charles Gardner relays Parkhurst's experience at male brothel the Golden Rule Pleasure Club (W. Third St.): "In each room sat a youth, whose face was painted, eye-brows blackened, and whose airs were those of a young girl. Each person talked in a high falsetto voice, and called the others by women's names."
1899 While intended to be rooting out municipal waste and inefficiency, the Mazet Committee reports on "male degenerate" hangouts the Black Rabbit (183 Bleecker St., between MacDougal and Sullivan Sts.) and the Artistic Club (13th St., between Fifth and Sixth Aves.).
1912 Feminist luncheon club Heterodoxy is formed "for unorthodox women" including prominent lesbian members Sara Josephine Baker and partners Katharine Anthony and Elisabeth Irwin; they often meet at Polly's Restaurant (137 MacDougal St., between 3rd and 4th Sts.).
1925 Police descend on a slew of known gay-frequented establishments in Greenwich Village, leaving just three open.
1925 Polish Jewish immigrant Eve Kotchever (who goes by the name Eve Addams) opens Eve's Hangout (129 MacDougal St. at W. Third St.), a lesbian tea room and speakeasy with a sign on its door proclaiming "Men are admitted but not welcome"; the following year she's raided by police and sent to a workhouse for a year before being deported for writing a collection of short stories called Lesbian Love.
1892 "It is a fact," reports the New York Herald, "that The Slide and the unspeakable nature of the orgies practised there are a matter of common talk among men who are bent on taking in the town, making a night of it"; the place is promptly closed.
1894 In the book The Doctor and the Devil, or the Midnight Adventures of Dr. Parkhurst, author Charles Gardner relays Parkhurst's experience at male brothel the Golden Rule Pleasure Club (W. Third St.): "In each room sat a youth, whose face was painted, eye-brows blackened, and whose airs were those of a young girl. Each person talked in a high falsetto voice, and called the others by women's names."
1899 While intended to be rooting out municipal waste and inefficiency, the Mazet Committee reports on "male degenerate" hangouts the Black Rabbit (183 Bleecker St., between MacDougal and Sullivan Sts.) and the Artistic Club (13th St., between Fifth and Sixth Aves.).
1912 Feminist luncheon club Heterodoxy is formed "for unorthodox women" including prominent lesbian members Sara Josephine Baker and partners Katharine Anthony and Elisabeth Irwin; they often meet at Polly's Restaurant (137 MacDougal St., between 3rd and 4th Sts.).
1925 Police descend on a slew of known gay-frequented establishments in Greenwich Village, leaving just three open.
1925 Polish Jewish immigrant Eve Kotchever (who goes by the name Eve Addams) opens Eve's Hangout (129 MacDougal St. at W. Third St.), a lesbian tea room and speakeasy with a sign on its door proclaiming "Men are admitted but not welcome"; the following year she's raided by police and sent to a workhouse for a year before being deported for writing a collection of short stories called Lesbian Love.
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