Cadillac Bar, Binghamton 3595

While this may look like just a block of old buildings in a decaying old industrial city, it's actually an important site. One of these buildings (I believe the green one) was the home of the Cadillac Bar. In the early 70's days of Gay Liberation, the Cadillac was the bar/social center for much of the Binghamton Gay Liberation Group, a group consisting mostly of students from SUNY Binghamton (now Binghamton University).

It was what was then a fairly traditional gay bar with many customers being closeted. In fact, most people didn't actually use the front door of the bar, but went in and out the back door where there was almost no risk of being seen by anyone. It was mostly us college students who were becoming activists, who used the front door...