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How the LGBTQ celebratn me to be39th Street remas a historic gatherg place for the LGBTQ muny, and many lol gay bars and bs have populated the area sce the late 1970s. As June approach and brgs the Oklahoma summer heat, also brgs wh a myriad of events celebratg Pri Month Oklahoma Month is a memoratn of the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg New York, when police raid the Stonewall Inn, a proment gay bar Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. “A iend of me was workg the ont sk and wasn’t a gay hotel yet; they wouldn’t lease the club out, they wanted to be straight, ” said Burs.
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