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Montrose "Gayborhood". Found 1911 by an eccentric oil tyon, Montrose is Hoton’s famo “gayborhood”, home to our rich and vibrant unterculture movement. Montrose hoed an timated 30-40 gay bars by the late 1970s, and even today stays te to s spired roots.
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Montrose’s prolific gay club South Beach was long a Hoton stutn, strivg to enpsulate the clivy of Miami before shuttered 2018 for renovatns. “It’s kd of a rocket lnch or somethg, ” says owner Charl Armstrong, who also operat JR’s Bar & Grill — billed as one of the olst, ntuoly open gay bars the cy.
Armstrong says that for more than 30 years and South Beach’s entire 17-year n, he refed to have media and mera crews any gay club for fear of people beg outed, losg their jobs, or their liv generally beg promised. It was a break om some of the nservative and homogeneo cultur he found Texas, he says. “The relevance of the club scene is still a wonrful platform” for nnectg and tablishg relatnships, says Armstrong, notg that he met the love of his life 42 years ago a gay bar Florida.
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I llect gay. "But, the Montrose that embraced a young gay Black man om ral Texas 30 years ago, is far different than the Montrose of Hoton Mayor Annise Parker remembers the days when the area had a rougher edge. "You say Montrose to anybody this cy, and they tomatilly thk, 'Oh yeah, the gay-borhood.
' Even though there's nothg but straight people there, 's still the gay neighborhood, " she said wh a chuckle.
PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs. It has been the center of Hoton's gay and lbian muny sce the 1970s.