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I've been to many gay rorts, cludg the well-known on Ameri, but nothg par to Dunez. “Nobody really r if you’re gay or if you’re straight, ” she said as she was volunteerg as a parkg attendant to raise money for her high school one recent June afternoon. Brtany Sowacke for WBEZ But unlike them, Sgatuck has thrived as a vatnland for the LGBTQ muny, leang to s inty wh hly pated rabow siwalks, openly gay bs owners, even a gay mayor at the helm.
As a rult, Sgatuck and s neighborg town, Douglas, have bee somethg of a haven for teens like Boyce and gay Midwterners who prefer a quiet, bulic life to the btle of Chigo and Detro. “There are so many people who you n go to, if you have any problems wh people beg homophobic. ” Her high school prcipal is gay.
Around 20 of the 250 people her high school are members of the Sgatuck High School gay-straight alliance, though she said people wonr about the need for the club “bee we’re all so close. The towns have a panoply of LGBTQ-owned bs, cludg two plac to stay overnight that date back to the early 1980s: Camp, a gay trailer park and mpground about 12 south of Sgatuck, and the Dun Rort Douglas, wh s nightclub, baret and hotel lodgg. “People who are very liberal and want to not be judged, or who want to be able to walk through town and hold hands as a gay uple, which is what my hband and I do all the time — we don’t even thk about anymore.
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Predomantly gay gutho operated the 1940s and ’60s. Jennifer Granholm appoted openly gay Sgatuck attorney William Baillargeon to the unty circu urt 2007, he lost his bid for reelectn when his mpaign was targeted by the polil arm of the Amerin Fai Associatn, a Southern Poverty Law Center-signated hate group. He timat that up to 20% of Sgatuck’s full-time rints are gay, as are around the same proportn of bs owners.
“We’ve got a gay quotient; we don’t necsarily have a real mixed diversy, ” said Bill Unrdown, a lol realtor, who add that spe the area’s small populatn, he is nstantly meetg new gay people out and about. Dpe the mpground never havg been a men-only space — a rary among gay mpgrounds and trailer parks — he scribed the environment as “very much that old school boys’ club. Brtany Sowacke for WBEZ Kev Chow, who DJs as Club Chow Chigo, was playg his first gay vatn statn at Loose Ends.