For years, it was a magnet for men 'in Tejano boots and big cowboy hats' who had immigrated from Mexico and Central America. For the next step, the commission will schedule a public hearing for a vote. The Silver Platter, which opened in 1963, is the oldest gay bar in the MacArthur Park area. There was no opposition to the proposal at the hearing. "I’ll make sure we’ll decorate everything perfectly," he said. For now, the bar waits, but Adan is already planning the celebration. The city's Landmarks and Preservation Committee held a public hearing Monday where many spoke about why the Greenwich Village mainstay should be recognized. "We need to know where we’ve been, where we are and where we need to go." "These young men who took part in this event, this was incredibly courageous," said Dolkart. He said it would formalize the bar's significance in New York and American history. The fight for LGBTQ equality goes back much further than the Stonewall riots, notes author Eric Cervini who discusses his new book "The Deviant's War: The Homosexual versus the United States of America."Īndrew Dolkart, with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, is one of the people fighting for Julius' Bar to get a city landmark designation.
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