The Daily Agenda for Sunday, May 3

Jim Burroway

May 3rd, 2015

TODAY’S AGENDA:
Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Willemstad, Curaçao; Norrköping Sweden.

AIDS Walks This Weekend: Atlantic City, NJ; Asbury Park, NJMorristown, NJ; Newark NJ; Ridgewood NJ.

Other Events This Weekend: Texas Tradition Rodeo, Dallas, TX; Frieberg Gay Film Festival, Frieberg, Germany; Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Miami, FL; Hot Rodeo, Palm Springs, CA; Prague Rainbow Spring, Prague, Czech Republic; Sitges International Bear Meeting, Sitges, Spain; Tybee Rainbow Fest, Tybee Island, GA.

TODAY’S AGENDA is brought to you by:

From GPU News (Milwaukee, WI), October 1971, page 3.

From GPU News (Milwaukee, WI), October 1971, page 3.

Open at about 1965, Your Place’s name often wound up being a double entendre — “What do you say we go to Your Place?” Maybe that’s why locals simply called it “The Y.P.” It was very popular through the 1970s and 1980s. The Wisconsin GLBT History Project says:

Your Place 1966

Your Place, Christmas 1965

The bar long featured original art work, and was especially known for a round ceiling mural by local gay arts Robert Uyvari. It is perhaps best known as probably the first gay bar in Milwaukee with a large outdoor patio. The patio was used for summer barbecues virtually every weekend, and was well landscaped with lights, plants, paths, benches and a stage for shows. This was also one of the favorite smaller dance bars in town, although in later years the dance area held a pool table. Between the main building and the patio was an enclosed porch, with a small bar service area and large windows facing the patio; this was a favorite spot to sit and talk or enjoy drinks separate from the main bar area. …

Fallen AngelOn June 28, 1989, second owner Uncle Al closed the YP after his 7-and-a-half year reign as owner, and the bar was reopened late in July as “Partners” under the management of Paul and ownership of Jim Balistreri. The large round painting of a male nude angel, by local artist Robert Uyvari, which had long hung over the front bar, was auctioned off at a “Make A Promise” Dinner in April 1990 as a benefit for the ARCW (AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin).

Partner’s didn’t last long, and it went back to being Your Place in 1993 before closing for good the next year.

Sir Francis Bacon, looking fabulous as always

TODAY IN HISTORY:
Sr. Francis Bacon Accused of “His Most Abominable and Darling Sin”: 1621. On May 3, 1621, Sir Simonds D’Ewes published his political biography of Sir Francis Bacon, in which he accuses the great lawyer, scholar and “father of empiricism” of “his most abominable and darling sin.” D’Ewes continued, “I should rather bury in silence than mention it, were it not a most admirable instance of how men are enslaved by wickedness and held captive by the devil.” D’Ewes accused Bacon of “keeping still one Godrick, a very effeminate-faced youth, to be his catamite and bedfellow… deserting the bed of his Lady.” That same year, Bacon resigned as Lord Chancellor over accusations that he accepted payment from litigants, which, while against the law, was a widespread and accepted practice at the time. He quickly confessed to accepting payments, a confession that may have been prompted by threats to charge him with the capital offense of sodomy.

Medical Report of a Gay Civil War Veteran: 1921. Dr. Clarence P. Oberndorf, a New York City psychoanalyst, spoke at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York in Brooklyn about one of his patients, a 74-year-old Civil War veteran who suffered from depression, saying “For sixty years I have been leading a double life.” He became aware of his feelings for other men at a very early age. “He preferred rough, coarse men, like longshoremen, husky and full of vitality. These he sought at intervals, while his acquaintances knew him as a refined gentleman interested in art and literature.” He never married. Oberndorf quoted tim: “In my younger days, I used to grieve because of my affliction, but in later years I have become indifferent.”

Oberndorf’s goal was not to cure homosexuality per se. “Where treatment is undertaken for passive homoerotism in the male,” — active homosexuals, or “tops,” were not considered truly homosexual in the early 20th century — “psychoanalysis may powerfully influence the attitude of the patient toward his malady by removing some of the urgent neurotic fears which accompany the inversion. After analysis such an invert at least feels himself more reconciled to his passive homoeroticism than previously. I have had male passive homoerotics seek treatment with just such stipulations — not to be cured but to be made more content with their lives.”

[Source: Clarence P. Oberndorf. “Homosexuality.” New York Medical Journal 22, no. 4 (April 1922): 176-180. Available online here.]

Mariel boatlift

MCC Wins Federal Grant to Resettle Gay Refugees: 1981. The Rev. Elder Freda Smith, vice moderator of the Metropolitan Community Church, announced that the gay church had been awared a $380,000 grant from the Reagan Administration to resettle gay Cuban refugees who were currently being housed in four reception centers across the country. Rev. Smith said the church had already resettled nearly 500 gay Cubans who had arrived during the previous year’s Mariel boatlift that brought 127,000 refugees to southern Florida. The gay refugees had additional motives for joining the boatlift: “Gays are looked down in Cuba because homosexuality runs against the macho attitudes in the country,” Rev. Smith added.

Rev. Smith said that federal officials authorized the grant because the MCC was better equipped to resettle gay refugees than other groups. “We are an idea whose time has come,” she said. She also revealed that the church had already spent another $100,000 of its own funds toward the effort.

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And feel free to consider this your open thread for the day. What’s happening in your world?

TomTallis

May 4th, 2015

For a long time there was a bar with a VERY active back room in San Francisco called My Place. It was on Folsom, IIRC, between fourth and fifth (or fifth and sixth – give me a break, it closed 20 years ago).

Eric Payne

May 4th, 2015

Tom,

Has it really been 20 years? I thought it was open until the mid-90s, but had become a real sleaze-pit… damn, it just hit me… the mid-90s WAS 20 years ago. Damn, how did I get to be this old? That was NEVER supposed to happen!

Ben in oakland

May 5th, 2015

Eric, you might want to reconsider that.

Generally speaking, The only thing worse than getting older is not getting older.

Eric Payne

May 5th, 2015

Ben in Oakland —

But, see, that’s just it. In September, 1999, while in Family Court in San Jose, I had a heart attack, and entered CHF. I was told then “five years, tops.”

This was after, at my birth, my parents being told I had “serious” cardiac issues and, citing a physical deformity, were also told I was “probably Mongoloid,” They were advised to just put me in a home, and try again.

Since we moved to Georgia, at my annual cardiac nuke stressing, I’m given a life expectancy of “3 years.” That was 7 years ago.

So, see? I was never expected to get this old! :-)

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