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Contents:
- WHERE IS GEE MAHARIS TODAY? DID GAY STIGMA DAMAGE HIS CAREER?
- GAY PARA, A ROUTE 66 LANDMARK THAT HOLDS A UNIQUE SPOT OZARKS HISTORY
- GARY'S GAY PARA
- ROUTE 66: GARY’S GAY PARA
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
- GAY PARA, A ROUTE 66 LANDMARK THAT HOLDS A UNIQUE SPOT IN OZARKS HISTORY
- GAY MOSW · CY GUI
- ROUTE 66: SCLAIR GAY PARA, A GAS STATN OUT OF TIME
WHERE IS GEE MAHARIS TODAY? DID GAY STIGMA DAMAGE HIS CAREER?
The gay bars along Route 66 may be gone, but they n live on our history books—and our photos. * route 66 gay *
Gay bars.
While I traveled Route 66 wh the Natnal Tst om Chigo to Sprgfield, Missouri, I documented plac muni along the inic highway that historilly weled gay travelers.
GAY PARA, A ROUTE 66 LANDMARK THAT HOLDS A UNIQUE SPOT OZARKS HISTORY
The story of Gary Turner and how he turned a dream to the Gay Para Gas Statn at Paris Junctn, Missouri, a Route 66 landmark and road trip attractn. * route 66 gay *
The subject of gay bars om the past really terts me.
GARY'S GAY PARA
LGBTQ-iendly road trip route om San Francis to New York Cy, cludg LGBTQ-iendly hotels, gay bars, and queer entertament. * route 66 gay *
Where I live New York Cy I lead a walkg tour about “gay bars that are gone” and people who attend share histori and sometim memori om LGBTQ spac, datg as far back as the 1870s.
The are spac where gay Amerins found joy, love, muny, and solidary the face of great social and polil adversy. To document the “gay bars that are gone” of Route 66, I me wh a few important thgs my suse: two LGBTQ USA travel guis om the year 1966 (cintally) and a rabow flag.
One was tled: "The Lavenr Baeker ‘66: A Guibook to Gay, Intertg, Hysteril, and Historic Plac the U.
ROUTE 66: GARY’S GAY PARA
Ex-soap star Gee Maharis, whose ex om 'Route 66' may have been fueled by producers' upset over his beg gay, is ad at age 94. * route 66 gay *
The other gui was a Damron Gui om 1966, which is an LGBTQ travel pany that still exists and has been publishg gay travel guis sce 1964.
This third edn Damron Gui chronicled more than 900 plac across the Uned Stat and Canada remend for gay travelers.
GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
Explore gay Mosw wh Mr Hudson. The bt of Mosw for the discerng gay man. Where to sleep, eat, drk, shop and play. * route 66 gay *
Asi om the dozens of gay bars servg Chigo, the first “gay bar that is gone” I me across was Esquire Cocktails Joliet, Illois, which existed 1966 at 211 North Chigo Street and, acrdg to the Damron Gui, served a mixed crowd while the “back part” was primarily for gay patrons. The addrs proved too difficult to lote, but the fact that there was a gay bar scene the relatively small cy of Joliet (famo for s 1858 prison) amazed me.
GAY PARA, A ROUTE 66 LANDMARK THAT HOLDS A UNIQUE SPOT IN OZARKS HISTORY
Gay Mosw Cy Gui for gay travelers. Review of the cy, gay scene, how to get there, travel tips, popular tourist attractns Mosw. * route 66 gay *
Let’s remember what was happeng 1966 for gay Amerins: January 1966, Time magaze published a notor article on “The Homosexual Ameri, ” llg homosexualy “a pernic sickns"; gay and transgenr ctomers rted at Compton’s Cafeteria prottg police harassment San Francis; and New Yorkers staged a “sip-” prott at Juli bar Greenwhich Village, prottg discrimatory practic by the New York State Liquor Authory. Another Illois bar, Two Brothers also served both gay and straight patrons. Acrdg to The Lavenr Baeker, there was another gay bar Sprgfield lled Gee I Tavern, specifilly for gay men, at 212 N 5th St.
GAY MOSW · CY GUI
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Intertgly, a gay bar lled Smokey’s Den was not listed eher gui, but a lol told me was loted right off of Route 66 downtown Sprgfield. Louis has long had a thrivg gay scene and 1966 (as bt one n tell om the guis) unted 10 gay-iendly tablishments cludg dive bars, clubs, ffee ho and hotels. Louis was my last stop for documentg “gay bars that are gone” along Route 66 before flyg back to New York Cy out of Sprgfield, Missouri.
Louis rint told me about the one gay place he knew of his hometown of Rolla, Missouri, some 100 wt of St. He told me, “Every gay man wh lled Suzy’s.
To help fight agast that my own small way, I’ll keep a mera and a rabow flag my suse—jt se I e across another “gay bar that is gone.
ROUTE 66: SCLAIR GAY PARA, A GAS STATN OUT OF TIME
This property is lled Gay Para, ” the late Gary Turner said 2012, wh his signature gravelly voice. “It was built by Gay and Fred Mason. Gay Para was named after Gay.
But you only see Gay’s name up there, so she’s probably more equal than Fred was.
”The origal Gay Para was built around 1930 Paris Sprgs, alongsi Route md that “Para” is not exactly “equal” Spanish (more likely Italian), and that Para may very well have been an old place name for this part of ral Missouri about 20- wt of Sprgfield.