Hidn In Pla Sight: Let's Take A Look Back At The History of Dallas' Gay Bars of the 1970s Through Photos From That Era.
Contents:
- TEXAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
- THE BRICK GAY BAR CLOSG AFTER 25 YEARS
- GAY DALLAS
TEXAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
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While The Brick is gone will not soon be fotten, as left a signifint mark on the gay clubbg scene. The Ain-Amerin muny rpond and filled the club on weekends, when was the only club offerg a hip-hop night for gays. A lot of younger gay guys don’t unrstand how important dancg is to gay culture.
Gays now go to mastream clubs while straights e more to gay clubs, " he says. The club is a genero supporter of our muny, cludg hostg chary fundraisers of all typ, om gay sports leagu to AIDS service groups and Rource Center Dallas. Last month, The Advote published a tribute to “26 Dead (Or Dyg) Gay Bars NYC, LA, SF.
THE BRICK GAY BAR CLOSG AFTER 25 YEARS
After 25 years ridg near the Oak Lawn neighborhood of Dallas, The Brick has announced 's gay bar, known wily for s drag... * the brick gay club dallas *
Bob Wright, Dan Lambert, Betty Neal, Gaylan Zant, and Adam Metts for your years of service to The Brick. After 25 years ridg near the Oak Lawn neighborhood of Dallas, The Brick has announced 's gay bar, known wily for s drag shows, will close July 24, acrdg to a media release. A Photo History of Dallas’ Gay Bars of the 1970s.
GAY DALLAS
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In the past few months, the Uned Stat has celebrated a few important ton the history of civil rights for gay Amerins: the signatn of the Stonewall Inn New York Cy as a Natnal Monument to Gay Rights and the first anniversary of the historic Supreme Court cisn to legalize same-sex marriage all 50 stat. Before the days of polil activism, beg gay was somethg one often kept to onelf or shared only wh a close circle of iends. Homosexuals and lbians were often forced to keep a very low profile, if only for self-prervatn.
There had, however, been gay bars Dallas, datg back to at least the early 1950s (one of the first was Le Bof Sur Le To, later renamed Villa Fontana). The police raids and nstant harassment ntued through the latter half of the 1970s, when an anized and unified gay muny beme polilly active and took their plats to the urts. Gay and lbian bars have always held an important place the LGBTQ muny.
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In the early days, they were the only plac where gay men and women uld socialize openly wh one another a “safe” environment where they were ee to be themselv.
That was a quote om a Dallas Gay Polil Cc spokman a 1979 Dallas Morng News article on the emergence of Oak Lawn as the center of Dallas’ gay muny.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of the safe meetg plac at a time when men and women were beg arrted and were losg their jobs simply bee they were gay. * * * * *I wre regularly about Dallas history, and has been difficult to fd posive media acunts of Dallas’ gay muny before the 1970s.