Most of the scenes in which Lee and Jack drink at a bar were filmed at Julius' Bar, a working business that bills itself as New York City's oldest gay bar. It has been in operation as a bar at 159 West 10th Street since 1864, it was a popular speakeasy during the 1920s, and it started to cater predominantly to gay male customers by the 1950s. In 1966 (three years before the more famous protests at the Stonewall Inn, which is around the corner), Julius' was the site of a Mattachine Society protest against the New York State Liquor Authority's discriminatory regulations prohibiting businesses from serving alcoholic beverages to LGBTQ people (which had made it essentially illegal to run or visit a gay bar). The Mattachine Society was one of the earliest American gay rights organizations. The protest, which its organizers dubbed a "Sip-In" (a playful reference to the Sit-Ins of the Southern Civil Rights Movement) was successful; the next year, New York State courts ruled against the State Liquor Authority's practice of revoking the liquor licenses of businesses that served alcohol to LGBTQ patrons. Both the 1970 and 2020 versions of The Boys in the Band also filmed scenes on location at Julius' Bar.

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