Nashville's first gay bars — The Jungle, Juana's — get historil marker

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"Gay men ught holdg hands out the open would be handcuffed and htled downtown and possibly jailed if they didn't make bail. In 1955, she got her own beer license, and renamed the place after herself, openg the next 's hard to say when the two bars beme a gay hangout, but by the 1960s, they were a favore spot for whe men — and a target for law Juana: a powerhoe of supportPeek remembers beg there when police me to the the time, men weren’t allowed to touch — "you uldn’t even put your hand on somebody’s shoulr, " he said.