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HOW THE LARGT GAY RORT THE MIDWT IS MICHIGAN'S "BIBLE BELT"
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Dcriptn:One of the Country's largt gay and lbian rort, the Dun Rort provis all the gredients for a first-rate gay Michigan vatn unr one roof, pl the Lake Michigan rort towns of Sgatuck and Douglas right outsi the ont door. Nearby are many attractns that appeal pecially to the gay populatn, such as Oval Beach — rated one of the bt among hwater beach by Out Traveler. Open year-round, the Dun is herald as one of the untry's premier LGBT vatn statn, and regnized as the Ambassador of the gay muny Sgatuck/Douglas.
Although Sgatuck-Douglas ss what’s known to be the Bible belt of the state, ’s also home to a vatn statn to a large gay muny.
Michigan Rad’s Ey Fox reports on how Sgatuck-Douglas beme the gay rort of the Midwt. Scher and his partner n a Bed and Breakfast his spare time, Schrr has been workg on a project wh the Sgatuck-Douglas Historil Society to tell the story of how the gay muny me to be. As turns out, gay men and women have been g to Sgatuck-Douglas for a long time.
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Scher says that’s where the gay muny gathered for more than a century. We don’t know if those naked men were necsarily gay, but Schrr says the gay populatn did start to take off around 1910 when the Art Instute of Chigo opened up a summer program Sgatuck, lled Ox-Bow. “A lot of people who attend Ox-Bow, a lot of the creative typ maybe were gay men and women, ” Schrr Ox-Bow was tablished, the artsy muny and Chigo urbani were travelg to Sgatuck-Douglas and more gay people started hangg out at the dun.
At that time Grand Rapids wasn’t a safe place for gay people. “If you were known to be gay or somethg like that the police would harass you and want you to give them the nam of anyone you knew that happened to be gay, ” Jenngs says.
”Jenngs would pe to Sgatuck on the weekends to bartend at the facto gay bar town, lled The Blue Tempo, unr the guise that he was makg more money for the fay.