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GAY STREET CEMA
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Gay Street Cema.
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In the early-1970’s, there were two adult movie theaters on Gay Street. Bis the Bijou Theatre, which was then showg X-rated movi, there was also the Gay Street Cema which had opened on September 25, 1969. Dpe the name, they showed straight, not gay, movi.
LYRIC THEATRE (GAY STREET)
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Gay Theatre. The Strand stands on the wt si of Knoxville’s ma downtown thoroughfare, Gay Street.
Lyric Theatre (Gay Street). On September 26, 1872 Knoxville’s first opera hoe, Stb’s Theatre, opened on the rner of Gay Street and Cumberland Avenue.
Sce the 1790s, Gay Street has played a primary role Knoxville’s historil and cultural velopment. Gay Street is home to art galleri, historic theaters, the East Tennsee History Center and more – wh many buildgs listed on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac. Gay Street was the se of the 1796 Constutnal Conventn that rulted the foundg of the state of Tennsee, and was a fol pot for the early polil activy of both the cy and the state of Tennsee.
GAY STREET
On the eve of the Civil War, Gay Street was the se of simultaneo Unn and Conferate recg ralli. Durg the Civil War, Gay Street saw some early vlence, a fatal shootg of a Unnist monstrator, days after the firg on Ft. William Sanrs died as the rult of wounds the Lamar Hoe on Gay.