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"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

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Gay bars hold a eply important place the history of LGBTQ rights and visibily the Uned Stat. For s and s, jt visg a gay bar was a high-risk activy.

For young members of the LGBTQ muny, gog out to a gay or lbian bar was almost like a re of passage. Growg up as a queer, Black women Louisville, Kentucky, Arielle Clark said that she felt like there were certa "ton" she wanted to meet to feel at home the muny: She wanted to attend Kentucky Pri and meet other LGBTQ people, and then she wanted to get to some kd of gay bar or nightclub bee that's where everyone spent time on the weekends. Commercial opportuni there are fewer and attus towards gays and lbians, not always as iendly.

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Yet a regn that’s jt outsi the natn’s gay mec on the map—but a ln away iology—creatg and matag a gay-iendly hub is a small revolutn.

”Dpe beg the fourth most populo place a state wh one of the natn’s largt LGBTQ+ populatns, Man has historilly stggled to mata a unified and visible gay muny.

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And for reasons that nobody n que ppot, Man’s gay and lbian prence has never que gaed the strength seen elsewhere.

“At one pot time, Man did have a thrivg gay muny, clubs, activists. ”Gay men and women were a fixture Man as early as the ‘70s and ‘80s, acrdg to Ray Robert Grissett, who told The Man Telegraph he performed as female impersonator Tangere Summers gay-iendly bars that dotted downtown Man back the relatnship between the gay muny and greater Man was always tense.

“Gay men and women were a fixture Man as early as the ‘70s and ‘80s, acrdg to Ray Robert Grissett, who told The Man Telegraph he performed as female impersonator Tangere Summers gay-iendly bars that dotted downtown Man back then.

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