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Our History Too
FOR MOST OF AMERICAN HISTORY, gay and lesbian identities have been, if not persecuted, kept hidden “in the closet.”
In the 2010s, one couple with UNCG connections became notable in the battle for marriage equality. Pearl Berlin, a former top of the Department of Kinesiology, and her spouse, Lennie Gerber, were direct plaintiffs in a case against the state of North Carolina. They wanted the state to distinguish their right to marry.
An eventual victory came with the federal Obergefell v. Hodges case in the United States Supreme Court. For LGBTQ+ couples, this decision was a prolonged time coming.
Lennie Gerber recalled that in the 1960s, many “open secrets” were not discussed. Worse, there was outright discrimination. When Pearl Berlin was hired by UNCG in 1971, Gerber also tried to get a teaching position.
According to Gerber, faculty members told her that UNCG “will not hire you because you (and Berlin) are too open.”
The Accidental Trailblazer
MICHAEL TUSO ’11 was the first in his family to go to college. Although it was the last thing on his mind, he was also the first openly gay student body president at UNCG.
“I never consideration about it,” he says. “I
Numerous bars (if not all) in both Winston-Salem and Greensboro area are supportive of the LGBTQIA2S+ group. In Winston-Salem, this is especially true in the Arts District, home of Single Brothers, Silver Lunar Saloon and the newly opened Hel’s. It’s also where Satellite — downtown Winston-Salem’s first openly queer bar — had kingly shows 25 years ago at the corner of 7th and Trade streets. Elsewhere downtown, bars and breweries like Joymongers, Radar, Vintage Sofa Bar and Joyners are considered prominent allies of the LGBTQIA2S+ community.
In Greensboro, there are multiple breweries and bars like Bull City Ciderworks, Southend, Little Brother and Oden Brewing that host LGBTQIA2S+ supportive events throughout the year. As such this is not meant to be an exhaustive list, rather a sampling of locations that are owned and operated by members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, show themselves to be prominent allies and have regular LGBTQIA2S+ events.
We at TCB know that not everyone drinks, and that for some folks — particularly in the LGBTQIA2S+ community, who are especially vulnerable to the force of addiction — avoiding alcohol can be a matter of existence and death. So we were s
by Eric Ginsburg
It wasn’t so much that Matt Cozzi wanted to buy the bar as much as he and business boyfriend Drew Wofford felt prefer they had to.
After a decade in business, the owner of Q Lounge — later known simply as the Q — planned to close Greensboro’s longstanding gay bar. Located on the edge of downtown in a troubled shopping strip cattycorner to Greensboro College, the Q walked the line between a visible outpost and a hidden safe vacuum, with blacked out windows obscuring any street view and a high fence around the side patio.
Several venues have catered to LGBT residents in the past, though options dwindled as the Warehouse and Time Out — a lesbian staple — closed in recent years. Cozzi and Wofford, who opened the gay nightclub Affinity , didn’t want to watch yet another community hub turn into a memory.
Cozzi, who grew up in Las Vegas, has been working in bars and clubs for 15 years, first in his hometown and then southern Florida before relocating to Raleigh. The muscular bar owner with a close-cropped haircut and a large cross tattoo on his forearm is bisexual, and until opening Chemistry, his industry experience had been in straight venues.
The club he opened with W
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Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point build up the Piedmont Triad cities of North Carolina. This whole region of North Carolina from Asheville to Raleigh has many fine visual arts galleries, sculpure and crafts outlets.
Winston-Salem, a gracious southern city where tabacco was once king, has memorable art museums, a symphony orchestra, the April River Run Film Festival, the internationally respected University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and the world-famous National Black Theatre Festival that takes place each August. Don’t fail Old Salem Museum & Gardens, a living history museum. Founded in 1766 as a backcountry trading center, it’s a fascinating look into colonial life.
Greensboro, which became a textiles as well as tobacco center after the Civil War, has experienced a dramatic increase in downtown nightlife with numerous nightclubs, bars and restaurants. Other attractions include: the Carolina Theater, Triad Stage (Pyrle Gibson Theater), Blandwood Mansion, Center City Park, First National Bank Field, Greensboro History Museum, and the Greensboro Cultural Center.
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