Hidn In Pla Sight: Let's Take A Look Back At The History of Dallas' Gay Bars of the 1970s Through Photos From That Era.
Contents:
- SHOCKG SCEN EMERGE OM ‘CHILD FRIENDLY’ DRAG SHOW DALLAS GAY BAR
- BT GAY CLUBS DALLAS
- 6 ATTRACTNS DALLAS FORT WORTH FOR GAY TRAVELERS
SHOCKG SCEN EMERGE OM ‘CHILD FRIENDLY’ DRAG SHOW DALLAS GAY BAR
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We’re Dallas’s premier gay go-go bar, loted on South Riveront Blvd, jt south of the Dign District, jt wt of downtown and jt east of Oak View Dallas offers live entertament (hot male dancers and fabulo drag queens), daily drk specials, bottle service, private parti, special events, and a iendly staff to make you feel wele. A Photo History of Dallas’ Gay Bars of the 1970s. In the past few months, the Uned Stat has celebrated a few important ton the history of civil rights for gay Amerins: the signatn of the Stonewall Inn New York Cy as a Natnal Monument to Gay Rights and the first anniversary of the historic Supreme Court cisn to legalize same-sex marriage all 50 stat.
Before the days of polil activism, beg gay was somethg one often kept to onelf or shared only wh a close circle of iends.
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Home to Dallas' LGBT muny and one of the most gay-iendly neighborhoods the untry, Oak Lawn giv off a trendy vibe amongst s diverse and quat * the view dallas gay bar *
Homosexuals and lbians were often forced to keep a very low profile, if only for self-prervatn. There had, however, been gay bars Dallas, datg back to at least the early 1950s (one of the first was Le Bof Sur Le To, later renamed Villa Fontana).
6 ATTRACTNS DALLAS FORT WORTH FOR GAY TRAVELERS
The police raids and nstant harassment ntued through the latter half of the 1970s, when an anized and unified gay muny beme polilly active and took their plats to the urts.
Gay and lbian bars have always held an important place the LGBTQ muny. In the early days, they were the only plac where gay men and women uld socialize openly wh one another a “safe” environment where they were ee to be themselv.
That was a quote om a Dallas Gay Polil Cc spokman a 1979 Dallas Morng News article on the emergence of Oak Lawn as the center of Dallas’ gay muny. It’s hard to overstate the importance of the safe meetg plac at a time when men and women were beg arrted and were losg their jobs simply bee they were gay.