Gay was servg back-to-back life sentenc for the shootg at Backstreet Cafe Sept. 2000 that killed one man and jured six others.
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- STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
- MAN WHO OPENED FIRE ON ROANOKE GAY BAR TWO S AGO DI
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There is no big neon sign outsi the entrance to The Park, the biggt and olst -- not to mentn only -- gay dance club Roanoke, jt a plard and a pla purple door, outsi which a shiverg knot of people is wag. Tonight's show is the annual AIDS benef; Roanoke, as elsewhere, HIV ath rat have fallen the gay muny and there is ls urgency to raise funds, so the take will not be what once was. He do not need to expla that he is referrg to the gay man who was killed on September 22 a shootg at the Backstreet Cafe, a nearby bar and pool hall whose clientele is predomantly gay.
One of them, a woman who looked remarkably like Wayne's mother, asked him at the first meetg if he knew gay slang. " And this, Wayne is reflectg at 3 the morng while performers take off their wigs and undo their crotch bdgs, is what's different about beg gay a smaller muny: There is no large gay enclave to retreat to, no Dupont Circle and certaly no Castro. "Here, " he says, "you mh yourself to a larger muny and fe iendships wh people who haven't had exposure to gay people before.
" That night me to epomize, for me, much of gay life as 's lived my southwtern Virgia home town: the hilary and loosens, the fun and sual iendls, the clivens, the outlandishns si by si wh the quiet ordars, the hard-won sense of muny -- and the fact that so ltle of tak place a public settg. So closeted are many gay Roanokers that some of the anizers of the cy's annual gay pri event, "Pri the Park, " prefer not to have their nam the paper.
MAN WHO OPENED FIRE ON ROANOKE GAY BAR TWO S AGO DI
Yet there are more gay groups Roanoke than one might image: not jt lol branch of well-known natnal groups like Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG), but also a gay polil actn group and a gay bowlg league and a gay untry dancg group and a gay Alholics Anonymo group and a leather-and-Levi's club that, among s many civic activi, helps an area 4-H Club put on s horse shows.
There are private supper groups for lbians who like to de wh gay men, and supper clubs for lbian separatists. "In a town this size, and many other towns, hundreds of thoands of towns, we don't live our whole liv as gay, " one man told me, tryg to expla that is one thg to be gay and another thg to live every part of your life as a gay person. In smaller ci and towns, he argued, people may be gay, but chanc are they don't live every part of their liv as gay people.