Gay Oil Company Buildg - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Contents:

• WELE TO GAY OIL COMPANY
• GAY OIL COMPANY BUILDG
• BIG OIL PANI SAY THEY SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, BUT OPERATE MORE THAN 40 UNTRI THAT CRIMALIZE SAME-SEX BEHAVR. IT LEAV SOME LGBTQ WORKERS UGHT BETWEEN 2 WORLDS.

WELE TO GAY OIL COMPANY

Loted at 300 Broadway Ltle Rock (Pulaski County), the Gay Oil Company Buildg is an example of an early twentieth-century Neoclassil-style office buildg. Constcted 1925 and verg three lots, the buildg served as the headquarters for the Gay Oil Company.

Thomas Jefferson Gay anized the Richardson-Gay Oil Company Texas 1903.

Foced on refg oil, Gay sold his holdgs the bs 1905 and moved to Ltle Rock, where he found the Gay Oil Company 1907.

GAY OIL COMPANY BUILDG

Gay signed the buildg to serve as both the headquarters of the pany and as a gas statn. By 1926, the Gay Oil Company operated ne gas statns Ltle Rock and North Ltle Rock, cludg the one loted at the headquarters. Gay also owned a warehoe on East 9th Street.

“GAY OFFICE BUILDING” is rved to the pediment loted on the southern edge of the east face of the buildg.

Gay operated his namake oil pany until his retirement 1938. Gay’s son and grandson ntued operatg the pany.

BIG OIL PANI SAY THEY SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, BUT OPERATE MORE THAN 40 UNTRI THAT CRIMALIZE SAME-SEX BEHAVR. IT LEAV SOME LGBTQ WORKERS UGHT BETWEEN 2 WORLDS.

Gay died 1951.

The Gay fay sold the buildg 2015. “Gay Oil Company Buildg.

Multatnal oil pani have ma huge stris their support for LGBTQ rights the Wtern world, but some of the largt oil rerv are untri where 's illegal to be gay. Over the past , step wh natnal laws, the Amerin oil-and-gas dtry has ma great stris s support for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer 2011, Chevron beme the first major oil pany to extend healthre benefs to transgenr workers.