A look at Tucson's groundbreakg gay bars—and the people tryg to prerve their histori
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- TY PONY IS THE GAYT BAR YUC VALLEY
- THE JOSHUA TREE PUBFLORENCEMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASCY GUIGAY MAPTHE JOSHUA TREE PUB
TY PONY IS THE GAYT BAR YUC VALLEY
The Ty Pony Tavern don’t ll self a gay bar, but is the gayt bar California’s Yuc Valley.
There’s a lot of homophobia and racism Yuc Valley small pockets. Jsi: My ltle here who is 13 jt me out as gay. Why, as an almost-50-year-old gay man, did I choose to move out the middle of fuckg nowhere?
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For a queer visor to the sert, walkg through the door feels like stumblg upon a gay, matriarchal oasis. ” It’s such a wonrful, to this day we get letters the mail wh relig, anti-gay material. And si ’s packets sayg, “The gay man is the vil.
(David Gee Zimmerman) “We’ve met so many queer folks sce we’ve moved to the sert, cludg the owners of the Statn, the Bety Bubble, Geo and Gypsum and Joshua Tree Blanket Company,” says Williamson, 36, who wrote and starred the Silver Lake-based gay soap opera “EastSirs,” which Halbach, 42, -starred and -executive produced. It’s fely a huge change om when we first started g out here 10 years ago.” Unlike the famo gay wboy song “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other,” ’s no secret that Palm Sprgs has long been a popular statn for the LGBTQ muny. “Today there is a very vibrant and visible gay muny here,” says Dave McAdam, founr and -owner of Homtead Morn short-term rentals, who moved om San Francis to the high sert 2003.
Comg om those two very gay-welg muni, I felt some real trepidatn about what a gay man might fd the high sert — pecially some of the more nservative muni here,” McAdam adds. When gay, ge-masked untry-wtern sger Orville Peck performed at Pappy and Harriet’s April, the Statn owners Glen Steigelman and Steve Halterman outfted Big Josh, the 21-foot-tall fiberglass wboy outsi their Joshua Tree gift shop, a pk ged mask to match the untry crooner’s tramark disguise. Could two gay cy slickers survive on a dirt road a sert town jt a few doors down om an alpa farm?