We would love further inputβif you have updates, photographs, corrections, are willing to be interviewed, or have any information whatsoever to share, please contact Whitney Strub wstrub newark. This project depends on community input, and ANY suggestions will be very appreciated! Kinney Club was "the hub of Newark's sporting life," with racially mixed audience, pimps, prostitutes, gamblers, etc. It also mentions he performed at every top club in the east.
Mosque Theater : straight club, but occasional host to the Jewel Box Revue, traveling troupe of female impersonators that began in Boston Plaza : in mids vocalist and female impersonator Willie Dukes is a top draw here, on Boston Street. Black's Tavern , "Where Old Timers Meet" according to ad in April Hours After; is this the same Phil Black who identified as a female impersonator in his business card that can be seen here?
Skippy's Hideaway , 97 Edison Place: Arnie Kantrowitz recalls visiting around "I don't remember the name of the street. It was on the other side of Broad Street from Washington Park and Military Park β¦ There was a little side, a smaller back street β¦ And it was downtown. And all I remember about it was that when you walked in, the bar took up the whole place. It was like, the activity took place around the bar. And there wasn't much activity that I was seeing, it was mostly people sitting there having a drink.
It was pretty quiet. Newark not being a noted gay center. There was plenty of activity going on in Newark, but you know people were just hiding out even from each other. There was a very comfortable mixing of gay and straight Jersey folk. Off 8th!!!!! Jackson's Lounge on Howard Street : "may be the largest gathering place for lesbians and homosexuals in any city of Newark's size ⦠Every time its doors opened, music and laughter spilled out," writes journalist Ron Porambo in , who goes on, in homophobic language: "A bulldagger⦠and a fag began yelling at one another in front of the bar.
They began fighting faggot-style, running up and down the sidewalk and around the parked cars β¦ while the crowd of lesbians and homosexuals in blond wigs shouted encouragement to the fighters.
