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2023 - Lynn union members support drag makeup class
A dozen Lynn members of the North Shore Labor Council joined 350 demonstrators in support of a free face painting class conducted by a drag queen and held at the Peabody Institute Library, Danvers, on May 10, 2023.
Pictured: News clipping, flag, and union members
Location: The Peabody Institute Library, Danvers, MA
Source: TheBoston Globe, page B3
Date: 2023-05-12
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Pictured: News clipping, flag, and union members
Location: The Peabody Institute Library, Danvers, MA
Source: TheBoston Globe, page B3
Date: 2023-05-12
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2011 - MA passes transgender bill of rights
Massachusetts enacted legislation prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity in credit, public and private employment, union practices and housing—but not public accommodations—on November 23, 2011, effective on July 1, 2012.
Pictured: News clipping
Location: Lynn, MA
Source: The Lynn Item
Date: 2011-11-06
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Pictured: News clipping
Location: Lynn, MA
Source: The Lynn Item
Date: 2011-11-06
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2004 - Unions back gay benefits
Lynn unions, IUE-CWA Local 201 and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 509 backed benefits for same-sex partners. Initially the IBEW insisted that benefits were only for heterosexuals. North Shore Labor Council President Jeff Crosby states that no other union is blocking same-sex couples from health and pension benefits.
Pictured: News clipping
Location: Lynn, MA
Source: The Lynn Item, page 8
Date: 2004-05-13
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Pictured: News clipping
Location: Lynn, MA
Source: The Lynn Item, page 8
Date: 2004-05-13
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1996 - Defense of Marriage Act passed
The Defense of Marriage Act is signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 21, 1996, banning federal recognition of same-sex marriage by limiting the definition of marriage to the union of one man and one woman. It further allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states.
Pictured: News Clipping
Location: Washington, DC
Source: The Lynn Item
Date: 1996-07-13
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Pictured: News Clipping
Location: Washington, DC
Source: The Lynn Item
Date: 1996-07-13
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1987 - Presentation on working class lesbians in Lynn bars
Pat Gozemba and Janet Kahn present, “In and Around the Lighthouse: Working-Class Lesbian Bar Culture in the 1950s and 1960s.” Research began at a Fran’s Place Reunion in September 1983.
Pictured: News clipping
Location: The Berkshires Conference at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Source: Gay Community News
Date: 1987-09-16
Pictured: News clipping
Location: The Berkshires Conference at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Source: Gay Community News
Date: 1987-09-16
1986 - Bar owner guilty of insurance fraud surrounding fire that destroyed Tamany Hall Lounge
The Tamany Hall Lounge was owned by Dominic L. Serino from 1980 to 1981. He was found guilty of asking workmen to produce inflated invoices before a fire and then submitting a fraudulent insurance claim. He was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
Pictured: News Clipping
Location: Tamany Hall, 418-420 Union St., Lynn, MA
Source: The Daily Item, Page 1
Date: 1986-09-11
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Pictured: News Clipping
Location: Tamany Hall, 418-420 Union St., Lynn, MA
Source: The Daily Item, Page 1
Date: 1986-09-11
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1980 - A lot happens at Tamany Hall
Tamany Hall Lounge, popular with LGBTQ people, operated from 1978 to 1981, when it burned in a large Central Square fire. A patron who happened to be there when the fire started, said the bar had a back room and that a pimp, one of the managers, "ran his girls" out of the bar.
Pictured: Advertisement, page 30
Location: Tamany Hall, 418-420 Union St, Lynn, MA
Source: The Daily Item
Date: 1980-08-20
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Pictured: Advertisement, page 30
Location: Tamany Hall, 418-420 Union St, Lynn, MA
Source: The Daily Item
Date: 1980-08-20
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1978 - Tamany Hall advertises for attractive saloon keepers
Tamany Hall advertised for "attractive and alive" saloon keepers in 1978.
Pictured: Advertisement for Tamany Hall
Location: Tamany Hall, 418-420 Union St., Lynn, MA
Source: The Daily Item, page 22
Date: 1978-08-08
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Pictured: Advertisement for Tamany Hall
Location: Tamany Hall, 418-420 Union St., Lynn, MA
Source: The Daily Item, page 22
Date: 1978-08-08
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1974 - Homophile picnic
The Homophile Union of Boston holds a picnic on Lynn beach in June of 1974. HUB president, Robert Dow, a Lynn native, organized the event.
Pictured: Advertisement for homophile picnic
Location: Lynn Beach, Lynn Shore Drive, Lynn, MA
Source: Gay Community News
Date: 1974-06-01
Pictured: Advertisement for homophile picnic
Location: Lynn Beach, Lynn Shore Drive, Lynn, MA
Source: Gay Community News
Date: 1974-06-01
1973 - Robert Dow, gay rights pioneer
Lynn native Robert Dow is an early advocate for gay issues in New England and president of the Homophile Union of Boston, HUB. He lost his job at Lynn's J.J. Nissen Baking Corp after advocating for gay rights during a TV interview. As reported in the Gay Community News, Nissen's fired him because they were afraid that his political and civil rights activism might give them a bad name.
Pictured: Robert Dow
Location: Lynn, MA
Source: Gay Community News, page 3
Date: 1973-11-17
Pictured: Robert Dow
Location: Lynn, MA
Source: Gay Community News, page 3
Date: 1973-11-17
1937 - The Light House Cafe opens
The Light House Cafe, the oldest LGBTQ+ bar in Massachusetts, applies for a liquor license in 1937. It is not known if the Cafe was in operation before that. It was owned by Hugh and Mary Collins and closed in 1975. Their application for a restaurant license for 178 Union St. met with opposition and so they settled on the Washington St. location.
Pictured: Notice of application for liquor license
Location: The Light House Cafe, 776 Washington St., Lynn, MA
Source: The Daily Item, page 27
Date: 1937-12-03
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Pictured: Notice of application for liquor license
Location: The Light House Cafe, 776 Washington St., Lynn, MA
Source: The Daily Item, page 27
Date: 1937-12-03
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Kathy Clay and Partner
Kathy Clay, right, and her partner at Fran's reunion.
Location: Fran's Place, Lynn MA
Photographer: Patricia A. Gozemba
Date: circa 1984
Location: Fran's Place, Lynn MA
Photographer: Patricia A. Gozemba
Date: circa 1984
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