Gay City News: “Julius’ Bar, Randy Wicker reenact 1966 ‘sip-in’ against anti-gay liquor law”

“A cheer rang out in Julius’ Bar on the evening of Tuesday, April 21, as New York City’s oldest continuously-operating gay bar commemorated the 60th anniversary of what is considered one of, if not the first, documented acts of civil disobedience in the modern movement for LGBTQ rights.

“On the same night in 1966 — three years before the Stonewall riots — a group of gay men belonging to the Mattachine Society set out to challenge homophobic laws that prohibited establishments from serving queer customers, who the State Liquor Authority deemed “disorderly.'”

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Photo: Donna Aceto for Gay City News.