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Over the next week, in support of the protestors, they distributed some 1,500 leaflets outside the restaurant, see photo, above, right. Journalist and activist Clark Polak and the Janus Society, a local gay rights group, were notified. Police arrived and three of the protestors who refused to leave were arrested. In 1965, the management of the Dewey’s at 219 S 17th Street near Rittenhouse Square (now Little Pete’s) made it clear that they would refuse service “to a large number of homosexuals and persons wearing non-conformist clothing.” Modelled on current African-American civil rights protests, on Sunday, April 25th, more than 150 protestors, black, white, trans, lesbian and gay staged a sit-in, an amazing thing to do in Philadelphia in 1965, four years before the Stonewall riots. The problem was that other managers of Dewey’s around the city were intent on keeping the queer tolerant 13th Street Dewey’s the exception and not the rule. Widely known as the “fag” Dewey’s, it was noisily packed late into the night with a whole spectrum of drag queens, hustlers, dykes, leather men and Philly cops looking for a cup of coffee, a cross section of life on 13th Street.īEFORE THERE WAS STONEWALL, THERE WAS DEWEY’S It was the perfect hangout after the bars and the after hours clubs closed. This Dewey’s was near to the bars on 13th, Camac and Chancellor Streets and it was open all night. Click on this or any photo here to see it larger.) (There’s a cute Philadelphia fireman on the left in the group on the roof. The restaurant was remodelled after a fire destroyed much of it in February of 1969. You can see it the sign for it in the right of the picture, left, taken in 1972. It was next to the Gramercy, where the boarded up Letto Deli is today, on the southwest corner of 13th and Chancellor Streets. The Dewey’s at 208 S 13th Street opened about 1958. Of course, lesbians, gay men and trans people frequented all of these places, but two locations of Dewey’s have a special connection to the Gayborhood and to the history of gay activism in Philadelphia: the Dewey’s on 13th Street and the one on 17th in Rittenhouse. Some had tables, but most of them were simple lunch counters, serving hamburgers, hot dogs and malteds, see photo, below, from 1941. The Dewey’s chain began in 1940 in Philadelphia and within a few years there were Dewey’s sprinkled along Market, Arch and Walnut Streets and around Rittenhouse Square. From World War II until the 1980s, the Philadelphia area was home to many of these “old line, crockery, silver and glass restaurants.” There were 24 Linton’s, 44 Horn and Hardart’s and 18 Dewey’s. Sometimes these were only corners of hotel bars, certain street corners or sections of parks, but often they were coffee places or sandwich shops. outside of ICandy.LGBTQ people have always found a way to take nominally straight public places and make them their own. In response to the video, and before DePiano’s Facebook admission, a protest called “ Addressing Gayborhood Racism at Icandy!” was scheduled for 5 p.m. The video comes at a time of concern over racism in Philly’s Gayborhood, a topic G Philly has been covering actively. He says that the video was recorded about three years ago. Then, earlier today, DePiano confirmed on Facebook that he is the man overheard in the video. Since the appearance of the video, numerous attempts by G Philly to reach DePiano for comment had been unsuccessful. “I hope my friends who host shows there reconsider their venue.… the gayborhood is totally not a safe space and it depresses me consistently.” Hart, who has performed at ICandy for various drag shows and musical events, shared the video on social media the moment he was informed about it through his friends. “It makes me sick, I am never setting a foot in there again,” said Daniel Hart. The YouTube account, called “Gay By Gay,” claims in the video’s title that Guy No. All three of them that ask you for drink passes are niggers.”īackground voice: whispers “oh my god” and the video ends.
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1: (laughs) “There you go, and he was definitely your real boyfriend. (laughs) Does Ray ask you for drink passes - white, obnoxious white, but white?” 1: “And Ricky Peterson, nig, nig, nig, nig, niggers - everyone of them.