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    WayGayU: Creating a Space for Ourselves: An Historical Walking Tour of Philadelphia’s Gayborhood

    WayGayU: Creating a Space for Ourselves: An Historical Walking Tour of Philadelphia’s Gayborhood

    Presented by William Way LGBT Community Center at William Way Center

    October 9, 2010


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    You will begin in Rittenhouse Square, home base for 50s beatniks, rebels and queers, then trace the expansion of those “Spruce Street boys” up “Lurid Locust” to form a gay identified oasis in the center of Frank Rizzo’s repressive Philadelphia. The tour guide  talk about bars, community spaces and political activism, have coffee at a gayborhood cafe and end the day with a visit to the extensive collections of the William Way Center’s John J. Wilcox Jr. Library and Archives. Wear comfortable walking shoes. Cameras are encouraged. Bob has worked as a walking tour guide in Center City for 10 years, heads the archival collections at the WWCC, and directs his own historical dance company, “Mixed Pickles Vintage Dance”.


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        William Way Center

        1315 Spruce Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19107

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        $25 Members
        $50 Non-Members 

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        October 9, 2010

        Times:

        10 am-Noon

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