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Contents:

• GAY NIGHTLIFE VICTORIA
• 'CAMPY AND GAY:' NEW LGBT-IENDLY PUB TO OPEN DOWNTOWN VICTORIA
• THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE
• THE PAST AND FUTURE OF ONE OF HOTON’S MOST HISTORIC GAY BARS
• THE 10 BEST TEXAS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TEXAS
• WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?
• GAY BARS SAN ANTON
• NORTH TEXAS GAY BARS HAVE PROVID MUNY FOR MANY. HERE ARE THEIR STORI
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• AN INPLETE COMPILATN OF THE GAY BARS AT HAS LOVED AND LOST
• GAY TEXAS
•  TEXAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

GAY NIGHTLIFE VICTORIA

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He says he was surprised to fd very few adult spac dited to the gay muny when he moved to the cy a few year says The Vic Poodle will offer a relaxg space and fortable employment for the gay munySocrat Diamant says his pub on Johnson Street will offer meangful and safe employment for gay workers. "Victoria is such a fast-growg cy … and there's a large queer muny here, [but] the only dited space for the gay muny is a nightclub, " he said.

Socrat Diamant says the new LGBT-iendly pub will addrs the mand for another gay-oriented adult venue Victoria.

THE PAST AND FUTURE OF ONE OF HOTON’S MOST HISTORIC GAY BARS

(Socrat Diamant (Submted))A handful of gay-oriented nightclubs and pubs have opened Victoria the past few years but most have sce closed their doors.

It tak a lot of time and moneyDiamant said he isn't surprised there haven't been more gay-oriented spac, given the time and money tak. " Diamant said his pub will offer space for micians and performers, and there will be "a lot of fun ltle gay surpris. " Stt Daly, the munitns -ordator for the Victoria Pri Society, said there's a need for more LGBT-iendly muny spac, and a "pent up mand for a new gay pub Victoria.

"Occupyg a former shi rtrant on Johnson Street, The Vic Poodle will be a relaxed and "straight-iendly" pub space for members of the gay muny.

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(Adam van r Zwan/CBC)Decle Victoria's gay-specific venuWhile many venu the cy host gay-related events, Daly said there's been a general cle LGBT-specific spac.

Froud said he's noticed a lot of gay ctomers seekg adult venu that are LGBT-iendly, but not necsarily gay-oriented, addg that he's supportive but skeptil of the new pub, given s proximy to other popular venu tentative logo for The Vic Poodle pub.

WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?

"It's so mpy and gay a way the queer muny gets immediately.

Historilly known among lols as the Gayborhood, Montrose ed to be where the weirdos were. The Gulf Coast Archive and Mm of Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr History timat that was the se of more than three hundred funeral servic and remas the fal rtg place of an unknown number of people’s 1970 to 2009, this space was part of the legendary Hoton gay bar Mary’s…Naturally!, which fostered such a close muny that some regulars chose to have their funerals there.

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Mary’s, as wrer Ed Martez put a sprg 1983 issue of Out Texas, was “the mother hoe of all the gay bars Hoton. ” When origal owner Joe Anthony opened Mary’s, was primarily a leather bar where gay bikers would ngregate.

But quickly beme known as a place where anyone was wele: gays, lbians, punk micians, wrers, hippi, and bohemians all termgled. “The Gayborhood is marked as much, if not more, by absenc as by the visible markers of s past, ” says curator Junr Fernanz, who anized the event along wh S Rodriguez.

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“We are terted how the disappearance or ‘revelopment’ of the spac to bnch spots and ffee ho might mirror the overall trajectory of gay liberatn, om s earlier ialism to late-palist intarian pfalls like rabow-packaged Oreos. But one uld argue that Mary’s, too, was a gentrifier—one former patron remds me that gay men the seventi phed Montrose’s heavily Hispanic populatn out of the area to claim a space for themselv.

In one vio piece, for example, Penagos manvers his body to rg a bell agast a brick, which symboliz the mythologized “first brick of the gay rights movement” thrown by gay activists at the 1969 Stonewall uprisg. ”The exhib celebrat the full breadth of Mary’s, which— the way that only a historic gay gatherg place n—served as a hookup spot, a muny anizg hub, and the se of many, many funerals.

After Stonewall and the ceptn of the the AIDS crisis, the bar beme a place for gays to meet, anize, and prott. Acrdg to one archive of Hoton LGBT history, the group that beme the Hoton GLBT Polil Cc, which bills self as the olst gay-rights anizatn the South, began at Mary’s.

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Don Gill, a “fundraiser supreme” at Mary’s, rells s shift om grty gay hookup spot to the go-to venue where LGBT social anizatns uld munite wh the muny.

In a 2002 Hoton Prs article, bartenr and part-owner Gaye Yancey said “wasn’t unmon for three Mary’s ctomers to die each month. And although wispread gay acceptance, cemented by the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015, has phed society forward, this exhib is a remr that the need for queer spac like Mary’s is as important as ever—specifilly for brown and black queers and trans dividuals.

12 plac sorted by traveler favorGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissWhat travelers are saygShawn HWashgton DC, DC367 ntributnsWe went to Bonham Exchange on a Friday night and s a huge space wh multiple dance floors and bars and a number of levels. Rich's is known for their hottt DJs and large turn-outs on Thursday nights and sce is no longer a gay club, many teens and olr people e out for a fun time. The ash pile of the Rabow Lounge, Fort Worth’s most inic gay bar and an epicenter of the town’s then-burgeong “gayborhood, ” took wh paful and joyo memori of a gay scene the cy hasn’t been able to replite sce.

AN INPLETE COMPILATN OF THE GAY BARS AT HAS LOVED AND LOST

There are only about half a dozen gay bars Fort Worth. Jt a few years ago, there was a growg gay bar scene an area south of downtown.

When the inic Rabow Lounge burned down 2017, the "gayborhood" permanently changed. Lol police and TABC agents raid the then recently-opened bar on the 40th anniversary of the raid at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, which set off the Stonewall Rts and gave birth to the morn gay rights movement. The timg of the raid censed the lol gay muny and s supporters.

GAY TEXAS

When the Rabow Lounge burned, the number of gay bars the cy was already paratively low.

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Back the early ’80s, the town boasted nearly 20 gay bars. Todd Camp — a lol gay rights activist, -founr and former artistic director and executive director of QCema, Fort Worth's Gay & Lbian Internatnal Film Ftival, the state's longt nng gay film ftival — said the lack of lol gay bars isn’t necsarily a bad sign for the cy.

“The gay muny is the dog that ught the r, ” he said. You n walk to almost any bar the cy of Fort Worth on any given night and fd gay people beg openly gay, kissg, beg emotnal, engagg public displays of affectn wh no fear of repercsns bee, for the most part, people feel fortable.