Philadelphia means “city of brotherly love as the culture and history homosexual Hot Spot
Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry Longfellow all the pilgrims of the road in Philadelphia - No, it should be pointed out to pay tribute to America’s native home, where both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, United were written.
They moved onto the city of brotherly love “to celebrate in the company of man, was life, ekstatischen incarnation of freedom and independence of these documents expanded writer, has thrown serious poetic tradition Pin wild orgiastischen love poems for young Democracy - “Prairie Songs, chants of hours of Brenner Mississippi … - Yankee chants … Chants inclusive. ”
Walt Whitman, America’s famous poet was in all likelihood, it inspires profound and joyful because he lived and wrote about his “passion ineffable love!”
When Whitman finally “settled in the years 1884 at age 64, he bought a house two There are a Camden, on the Delaware River from Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia. Camden at 19 was the century of ‘American in Paris, a center of gay life, a reputation undoubtedly strengthened by all parties, birthday boy, raised by Whitman admirers in his home today, a National Historic Site.
Today, Philadelphia believes that the mantle and travellers are the reasons for his pilgrimage is not so much amateur Whitman. Where a Provincetown beach, San Francisco, nightlife and Los Angeles, sparkle and closeted stars, the city of Quaker William Penn 1682 based on the principles of equality and freedom of opinion and expression, history and culture of inspiration, many homosexual.
The cradle of the revolution was the site of some of the nation first gay civil rights protests - 10 activists marched before the Independence Hall in 1965, four years before the stand to support a police raid of the Stonewall Inn New York, zündeten the gay liberation movement in the USA.
Today, the host of Philadelphia is not one but several parties and pride is also the homeland of equal forum, a gay-Civil Rights Movement during the week and in the symposium April, the honor this year in Canada for its progress on same-sex marriage. It is a city that offers
a chance to discover the forefathers and foremothers courageous - and joys of daily life gay, everyone can enjoy the night light, food and shopping.
The place at the beginning of your exploration of this city east of plain Gayborhood how people are synchronized version Gay Village. It’s tucked in the center of the city, which stretches from Broad Street, up Route 11 between chestnuts and pine. Meander through this environment and Victorian-style colonial and tripping over a large number of tourists ever see - and the founder never the intention of William Penn.
In an attempt to refractory Philadelphia, Penn asked wide avenues and masonry buildings independently, but in the effort, working class people, these blocks have been broken by the “courage” or alleys, some paved, Most too narrow for cars to transport. They were “Trinity collection,” small town houses, one room per floor stacked three high, many of them now lovingly restored a queer eye, using fuel of the city of wealth sets trend In Foster’s Urban companies like Home goods.
Giovanni’s Room, one of the oldest gay-lesbians bookstores in the USA, is in a Trinity. With more than 12000 titles in stock piles and the Community Information System is also an excellent place to find out what happens during your stay.
The heart of the Gayborhood is the path William Community Centre, housed in an old building around 1860. Named after a prominent local gay activist, the center of one of the largest gays, bisexuals, lesbians and transformations of the genre (GBLT) Archives in North America and stages exhibitions by local artists queer. The massive and remarkably beautiful Pride and Progress wall outside wall on its own projector Philadelphia Barbara Gittings, one of 10 activists of origin within the army Independence Hall.
A few blocks to the east is the drawing card traditional pilgrimages: Independence Hall, Liberty Bell and is now very cool National Constitution Center, July 4, 2003. Last January, opened the center increase its glass and steel in the atrium of the annual consumption of the city of Blue-ball, dancing gay mass in which $ 100,000 (U.S.) for the GBLT community.
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