Tehyi Hsie “Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.”
Colum Sorensen AKA Mr. Grotz “You Lesbians are always looking for an opening. ”
Originally along the old highway 40 from Reno to San Francisco at 3001 W. 4th Street was a motel built in 1950. Built as part of a slew of motels built to cater to the newly emerging auto tourism industry that started sweeping the United States in the 1930’s. By 1950 the whole stretch of [...]
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Nestled on the shores of South Lake Tahoe in California lies an amazing GLBT retreat with a history called Holly’s Place. In 1986 Holly Eimer was a successful leatherwork artist from Laguna Beach California. Always a dog lover, she would bring them up to Lake Tahoe to have a place to run around. She ended [...]
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Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco In the fall of 1972, Rodney Bingenheimer, a music industry publicist, and his record producer partner, Tom Ayers, opened a club on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood called the E Club that became a headquarters for the Glitter Rock scene which took hold in the United States in the early seventies. [...]
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Gay Reno in the 80’s The 1980’s in Reno saw a backlash happen as gays had spent the previous ten years making great strides in making their presence known in Reno. Symbolic of this new presence was the annual Reno Gay Rodeo. By 1980 the fifth annual rodeo managed to have 10,000 people in attendance [...]
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Reno’s presence as part of the national gay liberation movement was established with the membership of several of its places of business in the Tavern Guild. Based in San Francisco since the early sixties, the Tavern Guild was a group of gay business owners who banded together to fight police harassment of their places of [...]
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