A New Gay Town - Fort Worth Weekly

Contents:

• WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?
• 12 BT GAY BEACH IN FLORIDA YOU SHOULD VIS
• MOVG TO LGBT FORT WORTH, TEXAS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• GAY AND LBIAN NIGHTLIFE DALLAS FORT WORTH
• A NEW GAY TOWN

WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?

The ash pile of the Rabow Lounge, Fort Worth’s most inic gay bar and an epicenter of the town’s then-burgeong “gayborhood, ” took wh paful and joyo memori of a gay scene the cy hasn’t been able to replite sce. Lol police and TABC agents raid the then recently-opened bar on the 40th anniversary of the raid at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, which set off the Stonewall Rts and gave birth to the morn gay rights movement. Todd Camp — a lol gay rights activist, -founr and former artistic director and executive director of QCema, Fort Worth's Gay & Lbian Internatnal Film Ftival, the state's longt nng gay film ftival — said the lack of lol gay bars isn’t necsarily a bad sign for the cy.

You n walk to almost any bar the cy of Fort Worth on any given night and fd gay people beg openly gay, kissg, beg emotnal, engagg public displays of affectn wh no fear of repercsns bee, for the most part, people feel fortable. Camp has been rearchg Fort Worth’s gay history datg back to the turn of the 20th Century for a book he’s wrg.

12 BT GAY BEACH IN FLORIDA YOU SHOULD VIS

Acrdg to his data, there have been more than 100 gay bars Fort Worth and nearby Arlgton, wh 651 Club the longt-tenured at about 35 years (and the Rabow Lounge was later hoed the same buildg), and a club lled Trixx lastg only one weekend.

“All the gay men would grab a girl and they would start dancg so that when they ps me , they wouldn't be arrted, ” he said. One of the reasons the Fort Worth gay bar scene has been slow to grow sce the 1980s is the lure of Dallas’ thrivg gay scene drawg away people — particularly young people who prefer a more up-tempo dance scene rather than Fort Worth’s more languid e-as-you-are vibe.

MOVG TO LGBT FORT WORTH, TEXAS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

“There was a parkg lot downtown that was famo, bee that was where gays would meet and they would all park and then drive to Dallas bars. The cycle is now a faiar one: Gays move to a downtrodn area, build up, create a muny, and velopers swoop and price them out of the neighborhood. While the area surroundg the Fort Worth gayborhood has veloped at the pace of the Game of Thron openg, the buildgs and bon of the cross-sectn are still mostly tact.

“I still firmly believe that the role of the gay bar is still important, bee I still believe that the g out procs is paful, ” Camp said. Today, the 16th most populo cy the natn is brandg self as the “Cy of Cowboys and Culture, ” (which to sounds like a gay dream e te!

GAY AND LBIAN NIGHTLIFE DALLAS FORT WORTH

In recent years, several gay bars have spng up, and while the gays aren't likely to be a visible prence ( is still Texas after all), Fort Worth do have a Pri week ftival as well as s own Gay Roo petn, so 's well on s way to beg a different type of “Queen Cy, ” we hope. One of the fastt-growg ci the natn, Fort Worth ntu to expand new and pellg ways, om s rich arts scene to s flux of hip and lively bars and rtrants to s populary as a welg, stylish statn among gay and lbian travelers.

Wh entertag events throughout the year such as the World Gay Roo Fals at Will Rogers Memorial Center, you will fd a variety of thgs to do. You’ll fd a few specifilly gay bars Fort Worth, but the cy’s greatt charms for LGBT visors reveal themselv ls expected ways. There’s no specific “gay district, ” for example, but rather several diverse and engagg neighborhoods abundant wh sophistited rtrants, trendy loung, and world-class mms and attractns that beckon visors om all walks of life.

A NEW GAY TOWN

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