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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.
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” 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. Predomantly gay gutho operated the 1940s and ’60s.