Maxine’s (Historic Philadelphia Gay Bar/1920s to early 1980s) Size:L Like so many great clubs

Like so many great clubs of the 1970s and 1980s

It had the boots

welcoming entry for men otherwise shut out from public drinking spots

and uniquely New York — the kind of night that blurred fashion

At a time when many LGBTQ+ people still traveled into Manhattan for nightlife

Maxine’s (Historic Philadelphia Gay Bar/1920s to early 1980s) Size:L Like so many great clubsMaxines Philadelphia, PA (1920searly 1980s) Located at 243 S. Camac Street in Philadelphias Gayborhood, Maxines was one of the citys earliest and most enduring queer spacesoperating as a speakeasy and bar from the 1920s through the early 1980s. At a time when few places openly welcomed LGBTQ patrons, it carved out a rare, semi hidden space where people could gather with a sense of ease. Often claimed to be the countrys oldest gay bar in its day,