The Past and Future of One of Hoton's Most Historic Gay Bars – Texas Monthly

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• AMERI'S FAVORE GAY BARKNOWN FOR OUR HIP AND FUN VIBE, VIS AND YOU’LL MEET NEW PEOPLE YOU WON’T FD OTHER PLAC. WE HAVE WEEKLY AND MONTHLY SPECIAL EVENTS, THE CY'S BT KARAOKE (WH MORE THAN 15,000 SONGS AVAILABLE), REGULAR DRAG SHOWS AND A HOST OF SKILLED DJS WH THE BT MIC AND VIOS. NAMED BY THE LOGO CHANNEL AND OUT MAGAZE AS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE WORLD.UPG EVENTS
• THE PAST AND FUTURE OF ONE OF HOTON’S MOST HISTORIC GAY BARS
• MARY'S ATLANTAATLANTAMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASLBIAN BARSGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPMARY'S ATLANTA

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Historilly known among lols as the Gayborhood, Montrose ed to be where the weirdos were. The Gulf Coast Archive and Mm of Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr History timat that was the se of more than three hundred funeral servic and remas the fal rtg place of an unknown number of people’s 1970 to 2009, this space was part of the legendary Hoton gay bar Mary’s…Naturally!, which fostered such a close muny that some regulars chose to have their funerals there. Mary’s, as wrer Ed Martez put a sprg 1983 issue of Out Texas, was “the mother hoe of all the gay bars Hoton.

” When origal owner Joe Anthony opened Mary’s, was primarily a leather bar where gay bikers would ngregate. But quickly beme known as a place where anyone was wele: gays, lbians, punk micians, wrers, hippi, and bohemians all termgled.

THE PAST AND FUTURE OF ONE OF HOTON’S MOST HISTORIC GAY BARS

“The Gayborhood is marked as much, if not more, by absenc as by the visible markers of s past, ” says curator Junr Fernanz, who anized the event along wh S Rodriguez. “We are terted how the disappearance or ‘revelopment’ of the spac to bnch spots and ffee ho might mirror the overall trajectory of gay liberatn, om s earlier ialism to late-palist intarian pfalls like rabow-packaged Oreos.

MARY'S ATLANTAATLANTAMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASLBIAN BARSGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPMARY'S ATLANTA

But one uld argue that Mary’s, too, was a gentrifier—one former patron remds me that gay men the seventi phed Montrose’s heavily Hispanic populatn out of the area to claim a space for themselv. In one vio piece, for example, Penagos manvers his body to rg a bell agast a brick, which symboliz the mythologized “first brick of the gay rights movement” thrown by gay activists at the 1969 Stonewall uprisg.

”The exhib celebrat the full breadth of Mary’s, which— the way that only a historic gay gatherg place n—served as a hookup spot, a muny anizg hub, and the se of many, many funerals. After Stonewall and the ceptn of the the AIDS crisis, the bar beme a place for gays to meet, anize, and prott.