Steve Rogers' 1930s/1940s neighbourhood

selenay936:

But anyway, I recently sat down to figure out exactly where Steve’s local gay bars would be, or where the closest ones would be, for purposes of plotting things out, and uh … turns out that Steve Rogers lived in the MIDDLE of the biggest cruising/gay bar/gay hangouts area of Brooklyn. Like, a couple blocks from the St. George Hotel, which was almost entirely gay by the early 40s. 

This is actually a really great, fascinating essay (by thingswithwings) on the area and time Steve grew up in. The whole idea that Steve (and Bucky even more) would be completely, totally clueless seems even more ridiculous when you really look at this stuff.

Tags: i read this great fic once about steve being out with tony and making some comment about a pair of teenagers and 'is that allowed now' and tony thinks he's talking about the fact that the couple is boy guys and goes off about gay marriage and equal rights and steve gets really confused and goes 'no i meant skinny jeans' or something like that it was hilarious shit it's always hilarious shit when people talk about steve not getting gay marriage guys come on