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Loted at 300 Broadway Ltle Rock (Pulaski County), the Gay Oil Company Buildg is an example of an early twentieth-century Neoclassil-style ...

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Gay Oil Company is a third generatn fuel and oil distributor, whose foc is on ctomer service and would love the opportuny to earn your bs and ntue to provi iendly service for all of your fuel and petrolm needs." class="s123-js-pjax * 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 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.

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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.

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

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. Support for gay employe, however, be more plited outsi the Wtern regns home to large oil and gas poss, such as Nigeria and Sdi Arabia, outlaw same-sex relatns and certa forms of genr exprsn, puttg big energy pani wh global operatns and tens of thoands of employe a challengg posn.

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