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Pride month: When gay bars were illegal in Recent Jersey
This article was first published in 2019.
How can you tell if someone is homosexual?
For a Dominant Court judge sitting in Ocean County in 1957, it was easy.
“It is in the plumage that you recognize the bird,” he explained in a case against Paddock Block in Atlantic City.
For years in the Garden Articulate, the quacks like a duck, walks like a duck test was the standard by which police, inspectors and judges punished bars frequented by people who might have stood under the LGBTQ umbrella.
While sodomy was against the law in much of the country — and often used to prosecute gay people — it was not against the law to be homosexual or lesbian in Modern Jersey. But it was forbidden, however, for bars and restaurants with liquor licenses to allow gays, lesbians, cross-dressers and the like to "congregate" — a rule that did not apply to other establishments like theaters and cafes.
The state’s liquor regulators called gay bars a public “nuisance” and “inimicable to public morals,” and they occasionally suspended violators and shut down reiterate offenders.
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Published on June 2, 2021
Use this blueprint to visualize locations of pre-Stonewall Recent Jersey bars serving LGBTQ patrons, as described in ABC Bulletins from the 1930s to 1960s.
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Research in the ABC Bulletins collection digitized by the NJ Articulate Research Library identified 150 bulletins in which the presence of a gay person was noted. All locations hold been added to the map above. This map is considered comprehensive, but corrections and additions are welcome.
Trigger warning: Bulletins linked in this post and on the guide may contain homophobia, descriptions of mistreatment, and slurs. These are historical documents and do not reflect current social norms or acceptable language.
Update: On 29 June 2021, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal vacated the decisions of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) that resulted in penalties against bar owners serving LGBT patrons in the 1930s-1960s. This map has been updated to note when licensees were included in the Attorney General’s directive, and also includes seven locations that were not issued a pardon, locations in which the charges were dismissed, bars accused of lewdness
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If a queer cartographer mapped out LGBTQ bars, New Jersey would look love a triangular border surrounding a hollow center. Jersey Municipality forms the northernmost point with Pint and Six26, backing into the densely packed offerings of New York Metropolis across the river. Philadelphia occupies the southwestern outpost, while Asbury Park completes the perpendicular angle in the southeast with Paradise and Georgie’s.
What’s in the space formed by these three vertices? Nothing — a gay Bermuda triangle where the bars that dare enter soon disappear.
That’s the void that the staff of The 244 Detect hopes to complete . The new LGBTQ bar opened at 244 Cedar St. in South Amboy on Oct. 11 a fitting observance of National Coming Out Day.
The 244 Spot occupies an unassuming dwelling in a residential neighborhood. It opens into an intimate bar space that has the usual mirrors and tall tops of any standard drinking establishment, but the authentic charm sits in the belly of the building. Retain going, around the pool table that testifies to the venue’s previous being as Danny Boy’s Irish Pub, and you’ll find yourself on a sway floor of cozy proportions that’s framed by neon lights, a touch of rai