Julius’ Bar in NYC, the country’s oldest gay bar and location of an iconic queer rights protest in 1966, is now legally cemented landmark of LGBTQ+ history.⁠ ⁠ For years, New York’s bars were not only encouraged but legally required to turn away explicitly gay patrons as “disorderly” under a New York State Liquor Authority rule.⁠ ⁠ Inspired by the Black civil rights sit-in movement of 1960, three members of the gay rights Mattachine Society (Dick Leitsch, Craig Rodwell and John Timmons) took to several spots around the city to stage “sip-in” protests in which they would disclose their homosexuality and request to be served a drink.⁠ #linkinbio, if you're interested in reading more.