The evening begins with a reception at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $20, $15 for students and museum members. "Our Bars" is to be followed by "Art, AIDS and Activism in Chicago" in March and "From New Town to Boys Town to Lakeview" in April.
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"I still remember what a big deal it was when you finally had bars with windows that you could actually look out of and that didn't have entrances off the alley or the front windows painted dark," Keehnen said.Īccording to a museum news release, the discussion will concentrate on how, going back to the '50s and beyond, bars served as "places of community and safety, sometimes broken by police violence and often determined by politics of gender and race." The bars only gradually came into the open, going through periods where, for instance, an upside-down beer sign might signify a gay bar to those in the know, as things moved toward more widespread acceptance. He credited a movement that borrowed tactics from the civil-rights era and antiwar activism, sometimes growing out of student protest such as the gay liberation movement at the University of Chicago, but even so much of the activity remained centered on gay bars. "Chicago had a really good balance I think between picketing and protest combined with legal wins," Keehnen said. In New York City, the movement galvanized around the Stonewall riots in 1969, but things were "a little different" in Chicago, he said, where activist attorneys succeeded in winning a couple of key rulings. "But the thing is that feeling of belonging when they went to bars was worth the risks of being busted in one of those raids and having their names listed in the paper." "People were rightfully scared and cautious," Keehnen added. Join us at The SoFo Tap bar and patio for GRRR, DILF, Doggy Days, Bear Beer Blast, Bearaoke, Nerd Bear Trivia and more Check back here for. "We'd always been harassed by police, but things really escalated that year. "So crackdowns on bars got really intense, the illegal raids and everything," he said. Daley called for a crackdown on gay bars in an effort to "clean up the city" ahead of the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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"So really our bars are kind of ground zero for our feelings of self-awareness, community, activism, and through our activism basically our rights."Īccording to Keehnen, Mayor Richard J. Home to one of Chicago's largest gay and lesbian communities, Anderson is recognized for its diversity and a quirky atmosphere. "So what you had was all these people coming together, feeling they weren't the only one, and you have them getting a sense of community. "From that sort of self-awareness that they weren't the only one, people began to see that the problem wasn't the fact that they were gay or LGBT, rather the problem was the way society viewed the LGBT community," he added.