![]() then marched their way to the NYPD’s 6th Precinct, blocking traffic at times and chanting ” Hey, hey, ho, ho, homophobia has to go.” As the march proceeded, many bystanders along the street and in sidewalk restaurants cheered and applauded and joined in The group gathered outside Uncle Charlie’s at 9:30 P.M. One patron at the nightspot, Frizzell Green, said he was standing at the bar when the blast went off in a trash can five to six feet from him, producing a cloud of smoke and sending debris in all directions.Īfter the NYPD basically dismissed the explosion the newly formed Queer Nation founded by by AIDS activists from ACT UP mobilized over a 1000 protesters in a matter of hours. Mohrmann described damage to the building as ”minor.” but at that time the NYPD also called it “unrelated” to a hate crime. In the early morning of April 28 at least 3 men were injured when a pipe bomb exploded at about 12:10 A.M. ![]() Uncle Charlie’s Downtown was located at 56 Greenwich Avenue and was a hugely popular gay video bar in the 1980’s and 1990’s, packed nightly where gay men would gather to drink, watch video, play pool and cruise. Thirty years ago today on April 28th, 1990 a homemade pipe-bomb exploded in a popular gay bar in the West Village of New York City which prompted a massive protest march on Manhattan’s Sixth Precinct station mobilized by the then newly formed Queen Nation and years later was found out to be one of the first terrorist bombings on U.S.
0 Comments
![]() 50-something and 3rd, where a friend and I used to go to try to get johns. Kellers- on West Street, was fun on Sunday afternoons saw Mapplethorpe hang out in a corner, and met a guy I saw in the documentary Word is Out. Known as the Wrinkle Room, it was essentially an alcoholic assisted living facility. When one graduated from the Regent East, which happened very, very late in life, one could move on to the GH Club, way over East on 53rd. The number of people walking between the two seemed as though it would justify chartering a shuttle bus. There was also Bogart's, on East 59th Street, between First and Second. The lights were supplied with the pink bulbs that were typically used in funeral parlors to make the corpses look natural. The Regent East was down a few steps, and was loaded with hunting prints, club chairs, and had a piano in the back. It is the successor to The Regent East, which was at 204 East 58th Street, an address I committed to memory well before I had the nerve to walk in. The Townhouse is still there, although its restaurant has closed. No surprise, really the chain belonged to Lou Katz, enforcer for Roy Cohn and alleged killer of at least one of his own boyfriends. The Uncle Charlie's on 37th was involved in the Bronfman kidnapping. ![]() ![]() R7, Harry's Back East was at about 81st Street, making it an easy commute to Charlie's Uptown, at about 74th on Lexington. ![]() The two central female leads do a stunning job in what must surely have been hard to film scenes. The film spins from darker music video gloss in the mould of Chris Cunningham or Gaspar Noe to comical Dennis Potter dream style montages. Its not so much the plot that wins you over in this film, but the grand manner its filmed in. Along for part the ride they are joined by 2 fellow male prostitutes, then a client who falls for the youngest of the two girls. Plot is pretty bleak to say the least, revolving around two young 16-17 year old female prostitutes and their day to day struggle, and their dreams to get out of the grim life they've been living in not helped by their pimp. ![]() Wow spell binding is all I can say, Greek cinema doesn't break out to international crowds often, so when it does you can damned bet its special. ![]() The first was William Parsons, a military engineer who died in 1953, followed by Robert Shumard, another engineer, 14 years later. Over the last 65 years they have fallen one by one. His uncharacteristic inactivity is explained by the fact that none of the 11 crew members who joined him on that fateful flight will be in Tinian this year, and without them he didn't have the stomach to go. But this year, Van Kirk declined the invitation. This year, he tells me, he has been invited to travel, all expenses paid, to Tinian, the tiny Pacific island where, 65 years ago on that same day, he set out with 11 other men on an aeroplane journey that would change the world. ![]() The absence of any plans is unusual, because Van Kirk is usually heavily in demand on 6 August. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |