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DALLAS GAY DISTRICT: OAK LAWN

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Whether you’re lookg for a laid-back jazz bar wh craft cktails or a clubby spot wh mic perfect for dancg, Dallas-Fort Worth’s gay bar scene has a spot that will su your needs.

Many of the bars are loted Dallas’ famo "gayborhood" Oak Lawn, but you’ll also fd more off-the-beaten-path optns. Dpe the predomantly nservative polil spe of Texas, s pal cy of Dallas is home to a vibrant gay muny which is not only active, but also embraced. Most of gay Dallas is centered around the Oak Lawn neighborhood, wh the majory of gay bars, gay clubs, and gay rtrants found on Cedar Sprgs Road and Oak Lawn Avenue.

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‘The Strip’ on Cedar Sprgs Road is arguably the heart of Dallas’ gayborhood, and is a great place to start if you’re a first-timer to the cy. If you happen to vis Dallas September, you may be lucky enough to experience Dallas gay Pri, which is a fun-filled celebratn that tak place along Cedar Sprgs Road. As far as gay rtrants Dallas go, you should rise and she like a te Dallas gay lol wh bnch at inic Luckys Cafe.

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Between tonier Highland Park to the north and flashier Uptown to the south, Oak Lawn has long been the center of Dallas’ gay muny. The neighborhood bars and clubs still draw big crowds each weekend, as do the annual Dallas Pri para down Cedar Sprgs Road. But there are plenty of quieter streets of charmg old duplex, pl luxury livg along Turtle Creek. * dallas texas gay district *

If you are lookg for the bt gay bars Dallas, a vis to Round-Up Saloon should fely be penciled your erary. This is a famo gay-iendly untry bar that pays tribute to s lotn the Lone Star State. As wh most ci the USA, Dallas also has s own Woody’s gay bar, and s terpretatn of the cult name is pretty cent.

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You haven’t tly experienced gay Dallas until you have spent a night at Woody’s. Another major LGBTQ area Dallas Oakcliff, often referred to as the gay mec. Oakcliff has unrgone major renovatns the past startg wh the rtoratn of the Belmont Hotel, now the area is almost fifty percent gay-owned and s ma street is has bee a send gay strip Dallas.

Beg a big cy, there is a wi variety of gay-iendly venu and scen around town, so you are sure to fd what you more.

Dallas, once the epome of social nservatism, holds now one of the largt gay ncentratns the US.

ONE OF THE TEXANS ULD BEE THE FIRST OPENLY LGBTQ AND BLACK STATE LEGISLATORVENTON JON, JOLANDA JON AND CHRISTIAN “MANUEL” HAY ARE NNG FOR OPEN TEXAS HOE SEATS DALLAS, HOTON AND BEMONT, RPECTIVELY. ALL THREE ARE GAY AND WOULD BEE THE FIRST OPENLY LGBTQ AND BLACK STATE LEGISLATOR IF ELECTED.CHRISTIAN "MANUEL" HAY (OM LEFT), JOLANDA JON AND VENTON JON ARE NNG FOR OPEN TEXAS HOE SEATS BEMONT, HOTON AND DALLAS, RPECTIVELY. ALL THREE ARE GAY AND WOULD BEE THE FIRST STATE'S FIRST BLACK AND OPENLY LGBTQ LEGISLATORS IF ELECTED.(FILE)BY LREN MCGGHY9:37 AM ON MAR 7, 2022 CST — UPDATED AT 3:12 PM ON MAR 18, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — TEXAS VOTERS MAY ELECT THE STATE’S FIRST OPENLY LGBTQ AND BLACK LEGISLATOR THIS YEAR.VENTON JON, JOLANDA JON AND CHRISTIAN “MANUEL” HAY ARE NNG FOR OPEN TEXAS HOE SEATS DALLAS, HOTON AND BEMONT, RPECTIVELY. ALL THREE ARE GAY AND WOULD BEE THE FIRST OPENLY LGBTQ AND BLACK STATE LEGISLATORS IF ELECTED.ADVERTISEMENTEACH WILL FACE FELLOW DEMOCRATS THE MAY NOFF ELECTN. IN THE HOTON AND BEMONT RAC, THE WNER WILL FACE A REPUBLIN OPPONENT NOVEMBER.ADVERTISEMENTA TOTAL OF 24 OPENLY LGBTQ NDIDAT WON THEIR PRIMARI THIS MONTH , ACRDG TO LGBTQ VICTORY FUND, A GROUP THAT ADVOT FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER NDIDAT FOR ELECTED OFFICE. OF THOSE, 13 ARE NNG FOR THE STATE LEGISLATURE, WHERE THERE ARE CURRENTLY FIVE OPENLY LGBTQ MEMBERS.POLIL POTSGET THE LATT POLICS NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITANNISE PARKER, PRINT AND CEO OF LGBTQ VICTORY FUND AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF HOTON, SAID THE PROLIFERATN OF THE NDIDAT SHOWS VOTERS ARE MANDG CHANGE THE PAL.“TIME AND TIME AGA, WE WNS HOW UNEQUABLE REPRENTATN CREAT A RIPPLE EFFECT OF HATE AND HARMFUL POLICI THAT IMPACT ALL OUR LIV. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH,” PARKER SAID A STATEMENT.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:FIVE WOMEN START TEXAS LEGISLATURE'S FIRST LGBTQ UCDALLAS SEATVENTON JON, WHO IS VYG TO REPRENT THE SPRAWLG OAK CLIFF DISTRICT THAT STRETCH ACROSS SOUTH DALLAS, WOULD NOT ONLY BE THE FIRST OPENLY LGBTQ BLACK LEGISLATOR IF ELECTED. HE’D ALSO BE THE FIRST KNOWN TO BE OPENLY LIVG WH HIV.ADVERTISEMENT“I’M SPIRED BY THE OPPORTUNY ABOUT BEG ONE OF THE FIRSTS,” JON SAID. “BEG BLACK, BEG LGBT AND BEG HIV POSIVE — IS AN EXPERIENCE THAT HAS TGHT ME SO MUCH ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF REPRENTATN, THE IMPORTANCE OF EQUY, THE IMPORTANCE OF EVERYTHG WE’RE FIGHTG FOR.”ADVERTISEMENTJON SAID HIS EXPERTISE MUNY HEALTH HAS “PERFECTLY PREPARED HIM” TO LEAD AT THIS MOMENT, AS TEXAS EMERG OM THE COVID-19 PANMIC. HIS OTHER POLICY FOC AREAS WILL BE ASTCTURE, PUBLIC TN AND VOTG RIGHTS. WHILE HE WAS BORN AND RAISED THE DISTRICT, JON SAID NAME REGNN HAS BEEN THE TOUGHT PART OF THE ELECTN BEE HE HAS NEVER N FOR ELECTED OFFICE BEFORE.HE ALSO BLASTED STATE OFFICIALS’ RECENT EFFORTS TO TARGET HEALTH RE ACCS FOR TRANSGENR CHILDREN.“IT HURTS MY HEART TO SEE THOSE THGS HAPPEN,” JON SAID. “THAT IS PART OF THE REASON I AM EVEN HERE TODAY THIS RACE IS TO BE ABLE TO RAISE MY VOICE AND TO BE ABLE TO E MY WORK TO HELP.”ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:WE REMEND THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FOR TEXAS HOE DISTRICT 100HE WILL FACE SANDRA CRENSHAW THE MAY 24 NOFF.CRENSHAW, A FORMER DALLAS CY UNCILWOMAN, BTED VENTON BY 728 VOT THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. SHE CREDED HER ADVOCY WORK ON MENTAL HEALTH RE AND HOMELSNS AS ONE REASON SHE END UP THE TOP SPOT HEAD TO THE NOFF. SHE WOULD LIKE TO FOC MORE ON CHANGG THE CRIMAL JTICE SYSTEM FUTURE.“I WANT TO MAKE A NTRIBUTN, WHETHER I’M ELECTED OR NOT, FOR THOSE RCERATED,” CRENSHAW SAID.ADVERTISEMENTSHE ACCED JON’ MPAIGN OF SPREADG A MOR SHE IS HOMOPHOBIC, AN ALLEGATN HE STRONGLY NIED.CRENSHAW NIED BEG ANTI-GAY — NOTG “I BELIEVE THAT GOD MA NO MISTAK” — BUT ADD SHE IS OM AN OLR GENERATN AND DO NOT FEEL FORTABLE WH PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTN BY ANYONE REGARDLS OF THEIR SEXUALY.“I JT DON’T LIKE . AND I THK I HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE THAT OPN,” SHE SAID. “THAT DON’T MAKE ME HATE THEM OR FEEL ANY DIFFERENT TOWARD THEM.”THE DALLAS SEAT IS BEG VATED BY STATE REP. JASME CROCKETT, WHO IS NNG FOR CONGRS. CROCKETT HAD NOT ENDORSED THE PRIMARY.ADVERTISEMENTHOTON SEAT

Home to a vibrant gay muny, Dallas ranks number 8 among the natn’s most gay-iendly ci. For nearly 30 years, trendy Oak Lawn neighborhood has been the epicenter of Dallas’s gay life.

Gay-iendly rtrants, bars, f, and nightclubs will help you make an ia of what Big D’s gay scene is all about.

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One of the biggt spots is the Round Up Saloon, nomated as one of the top gay bars the world by TripOut. No vis to Dallas is plete whout a day spent shoppg at “The Strip”, Dallas’s gay mercial Mec.

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Loted at the tersectn of Cedar Sprgs Road and Throckmorton Street, this is one of the noisit and popular gay mercial districts the untry. One event you should fely attend is The Dallas Gay Pri – one of the biggt gay pris the southern half of the Uned Stat. Between tonier Highland Park to the north and flashier Uptown to the south, Oak Lawn has long been the center of Dallas’ gay muny.

Texas’ “gayborhoods” aren’t jt neighborhoods wh rabow-pated crosswalks at their tersectns; they’re historic muni where Texas pri and gay pri tersect ever-fascatg unison. Their one-of-a-kd rtrants, vivac nightclubs, and lovable lols crown the gayborhoods as attractive statns—no matter where you fall on the sexualy spectm. In 1947, one of the first gay bars Texas, Club Reno, opened Dallas, heraldg the cy’s LGBTQ muny as one of the earlit to form the state.

As that group grew to over 3, 000 while marchg through downtown, Dallas beme the se of the first gay pri para all of Texas.

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