Greenwich Village A Primo Guide To Shopping Eating and  

Making Merry In True Bohemia by Saint Martins Press, , Released May 5^th 1995  27 paintings by the artist adorn the pages. Tom’s good friends and neighbors wrote the book. Below are some of the 29 illustrations.

Alan Ginsberg  

Watercolor on paper, 8” x 10”, June 1^st, 1993  

Black Marsha  

Watercolor on paper, 8” x 10”, June 1^st, 1993  

The Stonewall Inn, located at 51 Christopher Street, first opened its door in the Depression year of 1930, having been converted from two hundred-year-old stables. Utilized for several decades as a hall for private parties, business banquets, and weddings celebrations, in the decade of the sixties it became a tawdry gay bar frequented by preppie types and drag queens like. A callboy service sometimes operated on the second floor. On the evening of June 28^th, 1969, it became the improbable site of the Battle of Stonewall during a police raid of the place. Robert Bryan, a men’s fashion magazine editor, was there that night and remembers policemen being driven back by angry drag queens tired of being intimidated and oppressed by John Law. A prominent “solider” in the melee was Black Marsha (a.k.a.) Marsha P. Johnson or Malcolm Michaels), a black drag queen and panhandling Christopher Street personality for over twenty years. Read the full story in Greenwich Village, a  primo guide by John Gilman and Bob Heide from St. Martins  press. Tom Lohre did the 27 paintings for the guide. Tom lived on Christopher Street for twenty years.  

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