Mappg Montrose's Gay History | Kr Instute for Urban Rearch | Rice Universy

Contents:

• MAPPG MONTROSE'S GAY HISTORY
• INSI THE LIFE OF GAV HOTON: TTH ABOUT HIS GAY RUMORS
• GAY HOTON
• ONE OF THE MOST UNR-EXAMED DIMENSNS OF WHNEY HOTON’S LEGACY IS HER STAT AS A GAY IN
• GAV HOTON REVEALS THAT DGHTER IS HIS SOURCE OF INSPIRATN; HAS A GIRLIEND OR IS HE A GAY?
• WHY HOTON’S GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE FAILED: FEAR OF MEN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS
• HOTON ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR

MAPPG MONTROSE'S GAY HISTORY

Your gui to the gay si of the Bayou Cy. Other central Hoton neighborhoods, cludg gay-popular Montrose and up-and-g Midtown, have also seen big chang for the better, helpg turn the natn's fourth-largt cy to a lively and downright stylish getaway. And the cy's Holot Mm has changg exhibs (which sometim touch on the persecutn of gays and lbians) as well as a permanent display that clus personal effects revered om a Polish ncentratn mp.

Hoton's gay scene is centered  Montrose, an attractive neighborhood a uple of southwt of downtown, wh a mix of early 20th-century hom and ttag and several newer pockets of ndos and apartments.

At the epicenter, where Wtheimer Road cross Montrose Boulevard, you're wh walkg distance of untls gay bars and gay-iendly rtrants. Barnaby's is a down-home der wh a huge gay followg and nsistently good, fillg fare. While Montrose has plenty of great gay-popular eateri, downtown Hoton is where a number of top chefs are operatg the days.

INSI THE LIFE OF GAV HOTON: TTH ABOUT HIS GAY RUMORS

Hoton has a tremendo number of gay bar and clubs. Although not pecially gay, the rtrant's uber-ol Whiskey Bar is a favore downtown spot for cktails—even if you're not stayg at the hotel, nsir havg martis here, as you observe the dramatic renaissance that is downtown Hoton. Colls is the thor of Fodor's Gay Gui to the USA, as well as numero other guibooks.

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GAY HOTON

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ONE OF THE MOST UNR-EXAMED DIMENSNS OF WHNEY HOTON’S LEGACY IS HER STAT AS A GAY IN

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GAV HOTON REVEALS THAT DGHTER IS HIS SOURCE OF INSPIRATN; HAS A GIRLIEND OR IS HE A 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.

WHY HOTON’S GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE FAILED: FEAR OF MEN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS

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.

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.

HOTON ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR

He clud long-regnized stapl the scene, cludg the rtrant Art Wren's, as well as the ls explicly gay hangouts, like the Hoe of Pi on Kirby that many the muny lled Hoe of Guys. What he found was that the early 1940s and 1950s, there was ltle ditn that Montrose would e to play the role gay Hoton culture that eventually did. Bars that were eher explicly or implicly regnized as beg gay-iendly dotted downtown before movg on to other areas like Rice Village.

In 1969, when an early morng police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy, sparked protts and rts and served as a galvanizg moment for gay and lbian muni across the untry, Hoton's gay bars, cemas and other spac were still sttered. And the 1980s, as new wards opened and filled wh days to treat AIDS patients, the tersectn of Wtheimer and Montrose be a clear center for social and civic life of many the gay muny. The 1990s were a kd of "heyday" for Montrose's gay culture, acrdg to Riel.

By 2015, Riel said, the number had cled, but he said people lookg for the heart of the gay muny Hoton would still head to Montrose. There were signifint ton along the way: the boytt of sger and gay rights opponent Ana Bryant, who was ved to sg at the Texas State Bar Associatn meetg Hoton 1977; the "Oddwads and Queers for Tsley" t-shirts that helped rally support for Eleanor Tsley for cy uncil after a ment om her opponent cricizg her supporters, cludg the Gay Polil Cc; the var polil groups that formed and the electn of Annise Parker 2009.