Wt Virgia isn't the first place you'd expect to fd a gay statn. But that's exactly what you'll fd Lost River, WV. Host Jon Kuhl explor how the small mounta town beme a hot spot for the LGBT muny.
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- IN THE BACKWOODS OF LOST RIVER, A GAY RETREAT
- A GAY DC POWER COUPLE IS REMAKG A WT VIRGIA TOWN. NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY ABOUT IT.
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- PEACEFUL, GAY-FRIENDLY WT VIRGIA... - GUTHOE LOST RIVER
IN THE BACKWOODS OF LOST RIVER, A GAY RETREAT
Wt Virgia isn't the first place you'd expect to fd a gay statn. But that's exactly what you'll fd Lost River, WV. Host Jon Kuhl explore… * lost river wv gay community *
Lost River, WV: An Unexpected Gay Dtatn.
Wt Virgia isn't the first place you'd expect to fd a gay statn. The Guthoe Lost River is gay owned and operated and has been the go-to place for the LGBT muny for s.
A GAY DC POWER COUPLE IS REMAKG A WT VIRGIA TOWN. NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY ABOUT IT.
Wh the legalizatn of gay marriage Washgton, D.C., and Maryland recent years, more gay upl are holdg their weddg receptns this area of Wt Virgia. * lost river wv gay community *
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). 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.
“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 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.
PEACEFUL, GAY-FRIENDLY WT VIRGIA... - GUTHOE LOST RIVER
Wt Virgia isn't the first place you'd expect to fd a gay statn. But that's exactly what you'll fd Lost River, WV. Host Jon Kuhl explor how the small mounta town beme a hot spot for the LGBT muny. * lost river wv gay community *
“Two or three upl would always be gay, ” he said. Dillard cid to make the Guthoe an official gay tablishment. 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. He has veloped and sold more than 400 hom the Lost River Valley, the vast majory to gay upl.
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.