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But when the name was created 50 years ago, there was a reason for the subterfuge: It was done to throw off the Texas secretary of state who, way back 1973, probably wouldn’t have approved the rporatn of a gay anizatn. And the longtime chorale director Tim Seelig always said the Meyerson was willg to rent the hall to the Turtle Creek Chorale, but they would never have allowed the Dallas Gay Men’s Chos to perform there.
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Acrdg to Bob Stutz, who’s been a member of OLITA for 43 years, when OLITA first formed, Dallas police were still routely harassg patrons of gay bars and nng the license plate numbers of the rs parked outsi those bars.
Gordon Markley, current OLITA print, explaed, “A group of gay men cid that once a month they would gather private hom, creatg a safer space for targeted folks to socialize.
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Bee 1973 when OLITA was formed, the gay muny had begun movg to Oak Lawn, renovatg what had bee a ndown area of the cy, even though would be five years before the first gay bar moved to Cedar Sprgs Road.
Markley noted his anizatn is fely makg history as the olst ntuoly-operatg gay social anizatn Dallas. And is very probably the first gay anizatn the state to rporate.
The group also distguished self a different way: While the gay men’s bars at the time tried to keep women out, OLITA has always weled women to s ranks. One was a woman who grew up wh her gay bt iend. For about a , Stutz said, a group of OLITA members spent Thanksgivg together Puerto Vallarta, which by the early 1980s was already beg a popular gay statn.