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Contents:
- GAY STREET CEMA
- GAY STREET
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
- MOSW GAY MAP
- DOWNTOWN MAILBAG: NEW GAY STREET MARKET BRGG SODAS, SNACKS, SCRATCH-OFFS AND SMOK
GAY STREET CEMA
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By 1975 was screeng gay adult movi and was renamed Adonis Cema by 2004.
Gay Street Cema. Gay Street,. In the early-1970’s, there were two adult movie theaters on Gay Street.
Bis the Bijou Theatre, which was then showg X-rated movi, there was also the Gay Street Cema which had opened on September 25, 1969. Dpe the name, they showed straight, not gay, movi. Sce at least 1977 (when is listed Bob Damron’s Addrs book), the Sansom Cema has been a gay porn cema the area of Center cy (downtown) Philalphia.
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The area is often referred to by the gay rints as the ‘gayborhood’. The Bijou Theatre was advertised as “The Olst Theatre the US showg the very ft Gay Films sce 1969”.
It was opened by Sean O'Connor on July 14, 1971 screeng avant gar/unrground movi shown om 16mm prts but gradually went over to screeng gay porn wh a year. Featur clu Gay, Straight, and Bisexual movi.
Sce the 1790s, Gay Street has played a primary role Knoxville’s historil and cultural velopment. Gay Street is home to art galleri, historic theaters, the East Tennsee History Center and more – wh many buildgs listed on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac. Gay Street was the se of the 1796 Constutnal Conventn that rulted the foundg of the state of Tennsee, and was a fol pot for the early polil activy of both the cy and the state of Tennsee.
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On the eve of the Civil War, Gay Street was the se of simultaneo Unn and Conferate recg ralli.
Durg the Civil War, Gay Street saw some early vlence, a fatal shootg of a Unnist monstrator, days after the firg on Ft.
William Sanrs died as the rult of wounds the Lamar Hoe on Gay.
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After the war, Gay Street saw extensive mercial velopment as railroad nstctn brought an dtrial boom to Knoxville. By 1850, Gay Street was home to three-fourths of Knoxville's mercial activy. In 1854, Gay Street beme Knoxville's first paved road.
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Almost all public visors to Knoxville ma an appearance on Gay Street. Durg the Civil War, Andrew Johnson was shot at when he gave a pro-Unn speech on Gay Street. Others who were seen on Gay Street at one time or another were prohibnist Carrie Natn, Socialist ndidate Eugene V.
One of Knoxville’s olst buildgs, the Lamar Hoe, now the ont portn of the Bijou Theatre, was operatg as a hotel facg Gay Street by 1817, when hosted a receptn for Gen.
Begng 1908, Gay Street beme the lotn of Knoxville’s first skyscrapers, steel-ame buildgs of 10 stor or more, begng wh the Burwell Buildg, followed by the taller Holston Buildg, and some years later the Andrew Johnson Hotel, which was for almost half a century the tallt buildg East Tennsee.