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Article: Savannah and the spirit of Stonewall in 1969.(ART MEMO)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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THE YEAR 1969 was when the straight brother of my high school girlfriend introduced me to the two gay men who would change my life forever. Savannah, like New York, had its own gay counter-culture that gathered in a Stonewall-like club known as the Basement, which was located in the basement of the neglected Armory Building that later became the home of the Savannah College of Art and Design. The entrance, like a stairway descent into Caliban's den, still exists on the corner of Bull and Gordon Streets.
In 1969, Savannah was arguably more tolerant of gays than New York. In any event, there were no bar raids like the famous one at Stonewall. Perhaps gays kept a ...