Today the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland is located just down Detroit Ave, near W. 29th St, just south of Detroit, you can see the Ohio Historical Marker honoring the neighborhood and the LGBT Civil Rights Movement. Today Hingetown is the home of Art Space (an artist community), Saucy Brew Works (a great local craft brewery), coffee shops, local retail stores and music venues like the BOP STOP. The first Gay Pride Parade in Cleveland took place here as well in 1990. The neighborhood was the home of many gay bars and nightclubs, the first Lesbian-Gay Community Center and groups like ACT UP that helped lead the fight advocating for those living with HIV/AIDS. 29th St and Detroit Ave, this was the center of gay culture in Cleveland for many years. The final installment for LGBT History Month deals with Cleveland’s Hingetown neighborhood in Ohio City. Cleveland Club Baths at 1448 West 32nd Street (the oldest Club Baths in the country, founded in 1965, and the original site of the Club Baths chain) West Ninth Street Club Baths at 1293 West Ninth St.
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