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The Woodward Bar and Grill Still a Safe Space for LGBT People - In the heart of Midtown is the Woodward Bar and Grill, the most popular gay bar in Detroit as early as 1960. While there weren't a lot of choices at the time, this establishment was the place of choice for most LGBT people, and for many still is. 
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The memorial stands next to the city's St Vincent’s Hospital – which cared for many of those to die in the 1980s and 1990s
Matt Skallerud's insight:
New York City has now received its first, permanent memorial to the many thousands it has lost over the past 35 years to HIV and AIDS.
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Christopher Street is legendary. With a storied -- and sometimes sordid -- history, those few blocks between Seventh Avenue and the Christopher Street Pier are synonymous with old gay New York.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
A short stretch in New York's West Village, this was typically the first stop for gay transplants and the newly out; the runaways and the abandoned. The intersection at Hudson Street, renamed Sylvia Rivera Way after the famed transgender civil rights activist in 2005, is the heart of Christopher Street and the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.
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