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Landmark Marlin
Whether in brochures, online searches or even the Broward tourism publications, it is straightforward to find listings for gay-friendly hotels.
But 50 years ago, there were none.
When the Marlin Beach Hotel opened its doors in 1972, it was the first. And the reaction wasn’t all that pretty.
According to Gay Weekly News contributor Fred Fejes, after a not many years of operating under the radar, the Marlin incited the wrath of Mayor E. Clay Shaw, Jr.
“If a family from the Midwest comes to Fort Lauderdale and sees men making love on the beach, what will they think?” Shaw said. “They’ll never come back.”
According to the Fort Lauderdale News, the mayor’s goal was to eliminate every vestige of homosexual outing from the beach: “If he had his way, the Marlin Beach… will go straight.”
Fejes quotes the head of the city’s Hotel Resort and Hotel Association as chiming in, claiming that the presence of a gay hotel was “a social stigma and it will drive families away.”
But the Marlin survived.
According to Fejes, a professor
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