Montrose is Hoton’s famo “gayborhood,” hostg a vibrant unterculture and which holds dozens of gay bars. Fd a sparkly Hotonian adventure Montrose.
Contents:
- GUI TO GAY BARS HOTON
- MONTROSE "GAYBORHOOD"
- MAPPG MONTROSE'S GAY HISTORY
- THE PAST AND FUTURE OF ONE OF HOTON’S MOST HISTORIC GAY BARS
GUI TO GAY BARS HOTON
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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. Along the leather-beaten path, RIPCORD on Fairview is an inic kk bar wh a laid-back feel and the distctn of beg the send olst gay bar Texas. Montrose’s prolific gay club South Beach was long a Hoton stutn, strivg to enpsulate the clivy of Miami before shuttered 2018 for renovatns.
MAPPG MONTROSE'S GAY HISTORY
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“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. "When did Montrose bee gay? Almost as regularly, he hears people clare that the historic Hoton neighborhood is no longer gay.
"I'm always terted why histori bee voiced the prent day, " said Riel, regnizg that different groups have different terts both rememberg Montrose's gay history and clarg the place today a more mastream neighborhood. In the 1980s, the historic neighborhood had a signifint LGBT populatn, and for many years, the area was at the center for gay culture Hoton. For real tate folks, the narrative of Montrose beg formerly gay -- but not anymore -- uld help them add a b of historil character and a trendy narrative to the area, while still sanizg the prent image of the neighborhood, which sometim was at odds wh gay bars the area, Riel said.
THE PAST AND FUTURE OF ONE OF HOTON’S MOST HISTORIC GAY BARS
It uld be part of a story of victory -- claimg the history wh pri, while also argug that Hoton's clivens means a specific gay neighborhood is no longer necsary.
Or uld be a sort of lament about a changg unrstandg of what gay polics and anizg look like. When Hoton's Gay Pri Para moved downtown om Montrose 2015, some took as a victory.
Intrigued by not only the qutns he received but the implitns behd them, Riel cid to look through the historil rerd to see what people really meant when they lled Montrose a gay neighborhood and how the landspe has changed. Map by Brian looked to old cy directori, travel guis and pi of the short-lived Albatross (the first regular publitn om and for Hoton's gay muny, published by a lol bar owner) to document the cy's gay bars and stutns, the spac that helped birth a host of polil groups over the years.