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- ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS ON TRACK TO BEE CY LANDMARK
- THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
- THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
- TOWN, DC’S LARGT GAY BAR, IS CLOSG. WHAT DO MEAN?
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“Why don’t they have more gay villas, ” Whe said, “I liked wrg Ernte. Whe, who liv New York, was a -founr of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and of the 1980s queer wrers group The Vlet Quill.
“Whether ’s evotive pictn of gay life durg the tumultuo 1980s, pastakgly rearched bgraphy or elegant memoir, Whe’s work stands out across s as s ronance … for a multu of voted rears.
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) Whe has been lled the “godfather of gay Amerin lerature, ” Prceton Alumni Weekly has reported. “I’m workg now on a sex memoir about the lov of my life, ” Whe, who 1977 -wrote wh Charl Silverste, “The Joy of Gay Sex, ” said.
Beg gay was sful and illegal. In that era, “the three most heo thgs Ameri were hero, munism and homosexualy, ” Whe wrote an say.
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“Or they would try to get passn for gays and prent as sick sad stori, ” Whe said.
Lost River is also a major statn for gay tourists om Washgton: a sort of Provcetown on the Potomac (the actual river is a tributary of the Potomac River).“Lost River is fely a talked-about place to go among the D.C. Gay muny,” said Michael Cole-Schwartz, the munitns director for the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocy group. “It’s nice to get away to the untry whout worryg about lol attus that might be uniendly toward gay people.”But even lol officials acknowledge that Wt Virgia is not known as the most progrsive of stat.
In the last printial electn Print Obama got only 28.7 percent of the vote Hardy County, Lost River’s home.“Live and let live” is how many lols view their relatnship wh the gay newers, said Diane Mathias, 44, who is gay and a lifelong rint of Lost River Valley. “Some of the lols may say ‘gay people are damned to hell’ at church on Sunday, but they’ll still e here Monday morng to get their oil changed,” said Ms.
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Mathias, who said her regular ctomers know she is gay.Wh the legalizatn of gay marriage the District of Columbia and Maryland recent years, more gay upl are holdg their weddg receptns Lost River.
The growg gay prence also has helped the enomy, as gay men and lbians add bs like the new Lost River Farmers Market and the Lost River Tradg Post, an upsle store that opened September nearby Warnsville. Dillard, a brawny 67-year-old who is gay.
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“Last Call,” by Elon Green, retrac the murrs of four men by a serial killer the 1990s, at a time when gay men felt prsured to hi their sexualy and were often the victims of homophobia. * lost city gay bar *
There are now 18.“Two or three upl would always be gay,” he said. Dillard cid to make the Guthoe an official gay tablishment.
Town, the massive gay dance club Shaw, announced last week that will close next summer after mors to the ntrary. The owner sold to a veloper who plans to build an apartment buildg s place. What do Town closg mean for the cy’s gay muny? Contributors agree that the “gayborhood” isn’t gog anywhere, but won’t look the same the future. * lost city gay bar *
He started advertisg the Washgton Bla, a newspaper servg gay men and lbians, transgenr people and bisexuals. From then on, he said, “I had an credible followg of people, and I felt very fortable bee the heterosexuals who would e were iends wh the gays who were g.”Mr. He has veloped and sold more than 400 hom the Lost River Valley, the vast majory to gay upl.Nothg much has changed at the Guthoe unr s new owners save the rtrant menu.
But ’s clear that attus toward gays ntue to evolve.“At my church, we have some people who will really voice their opn about gays; they jt nnot accept them and they don’t want to try to unrstand them or have anythg to do wh them,” said Evelyn Webster, 79, who has lived her whole life Lost Cy, a muny adjacent to Lost River.
I thk bee so many people have e out of the closet, and many of fd that we have someone our fay or a close iend who is gay.” A versn of this article appears prt on , Sectn TR, Page 9 of the New York edn wh the headle: In the Backwoods of Lost River, a Gay Retreat.