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This site was the oldest continuous LGBTQ gathering place in Kentucky and among the oldest in the U.S., with LGBTQ patrons discreetly congregating here as early as 1939. In 1963, The Gilded Cage bar opened, run by gay men John Hill and Estel Wilson, and patrons enjoyed same sex dancing and drag shows. It was renamed The Living Room in 1967. In 1970, it was the site of the wedding of Marjorie Jones and Tracey Knight, the first lesbian couple in the U.S. to sue for a marriage license. It was renamed Johnny Angels in 1978. In 1985, it was the site of the sodomy charge against Jeffrey Wasson; that case overturned Kentucky’s sodomy law, which helped decriminalize homosexuality in the U.S.
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Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky · United States
