Eureka Sprgs is the Gay Capal of the Ozarks
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EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS
Serly Gayly rears; ’s as if ’s always Pri Eureka Sprgs! Every day the bs all over town fly their rabow flags, gay upl n stroll down the streets of Eureka holdg hands and not be judged, discrimated agast or, for that matter, thrown out of town. * pride week eureka springs *
Gray had done all, or close to , his 60-pl years – the ary veteran has been a hairdrser, puter programmer, award-wng AIDS advote, and drag queen (he performed as Patti Le Plae Safe, a Miss Gay Ameri wner).
Now he mans the ont sk at a motel-turned-LGBTQ-iendly rort, the Wanroo Lodge, owned by a gay uple who recently settled Eureka themselv.
A nearly 70-foot-tall J statue gaz over a place once lled the “gayt small town Ameri.
GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI
Among the mm’s artifacts are vtage photos of a gay uple holdg hands and a woman drsed men’s cloth, he said. Out gay men and women started nng lucrative bs – Gary Eagen’s Sprg Street Pottery stud still stands. Soon, straight and gay upl were drsg drag as sultry saloon performers or macho wboys, pos that were “happily enuraged and monplace, ” Danos said.