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by Elisabeth Slay Staff Wrer OKC’s popular 39th St. District or more monly known “the gayborhood,” has unrgone and will unrgo more chang. The chang have and will improve the area for Oklahoma’s LGBTQ+ muny.

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OKC’S GAYBORHOOD IS GETTG A MAKEOVER

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District or more monly known “the gayborhood, ” has unrgone and will unrgo more chang.

“It’s funny to me that we are nicknamed the ‘gayborhood, ’ but don’t feel very vibrant or welg on this street, ” Zuniga said.

“And that’s what I thk of when I thk of gay culture.

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Copyright The Gayly. #OKCGAYBORHOOD#ROUTE66#OKLAHOMACITY#PRIDEON39TH#OKCPRIDE#39THSTREETDISTRICT#LGBTQIA+YOUR DISTRICT. OKC Pri Alliance held s June 2021 ftival ont-and-center downtown’s Scissortail Park, and OKC’s gayborhood has bee a bastn of queer bars the 39th Street Entertament District.

“It's still not okay to be gay most plac Oklahoma, ” she says. “I always wanted to be a really posive gay role mol, but this state, you n’t do that bee of job secury, ” he says. It’s a urage we see every queer person this state, and we all e that to motivate to keep workg to ensure our muny is safe and welg for far more than jt wealthy, whe, gay men.

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A ago, Oklahoma Cy’s queer scene nsisted of a few gay bars and longstandg gay stutn Hotel Habana (sce renamed the District) squeezed to the 39th Street Entertament District. The group has sce bee synonymo wh the gallery-filled Paseo Arts neighborhood, an enclave that’s e to feel like an approachable alternative to the clubbier gayborhood.

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In April, the state senate filed a bill that echo Florida’s so-lled Don’t Say Gay bill, which would ban books om school librari that foc on “the study of sex, sexual liftyl, or sexual activy. The late night scene the cy’s formerly dgy gayborhood once felt agmented, narrow, and exclnary.

Lendg Tree ranked Oklahoma Cy as the Amerin cy most likely to make a full revery om the panmic, and out-of-staters movg fd Oklahoma Cy is far more affordable than urban centers on the ast, markets where gay bars have been gettg priced out for years.

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