The Past and Future of One of Hoton's Most Historic Gay Bars – Texas Monthly

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• TEXAS’ OLST GAY LEATHER BAR SCE 1982.
• RIPRD, THE OLST GAY LEATHER BAR TEXAS, CELEBRAT 40 YEARS THIS WEEKEND
• RIPRD, THE OLST GAY LEATHER BAR TEXAS, CELEBRAT 40 YEARS THIS WEEKEND
• THE PAST AND FUTURE OF ONE OF HOTON’S MOST HISTORIC GAY BARS
• GAY HOTON

TEXAS’ OLST GAY LEATHER BAR SCE 1982.

Texas’ Olst Gay Leather bar sce 1982.

Voted Bt Gay Leather bar Hoton, TX!

Sce 1982, Riprd has been a fixture of Hoton’s LGBTQ+ bar scene and THE gay leather bar Hoton where the wild, the weird, and the kky gather on a nightly basis. It is one of the olst gay bars Hoton and the longt-nng gay leather LaRue onstage at Riprd Montrose. And 's still remas a safe place for all the on who aren't the typil okie-cutter gays.

RIPRD, THE OLST GAY LEATHER BAR TEXAS, CELEBRAT 40 YEARS THIS WEEKEND

And was dark, very dark and seemed dangero to a young'un, " Donna NewtonRiprd is one of the olst gay bars Hoton.

And certaly ntributed to my cisn to move to Hoton five years later, " Woodja Flanigan"Takg off my wig and fightg some transphobic gay. "Travis Jake-Man TerrellGee Country Sports BarGay Bar · $617 Fairview St (Stanford St)7.

"Gee BurchJR's Bar & GrillGay Bar · $808 Pacific St (Crocker St)7.

RIPRD, THE OLST GAY LEATHER BAR TEXAS, CELEBRAT 40 YEARS THIS WEEKEND

Montrose is the unofficial “gayborhood” of Hoton, and has been at the nex of queer culture Hoton, as well as the state at large, sce the ’60s. JR's Bar & GrillMontroseEveryone remembers their first gay-bar experience, and if you live Hoton, was likely at JR’s. RIPCORDMontroseIf Tom of Fland is your sired gay-bar athetic, then look no further than RIPCORD.

Tony's Corner PocketFourth WardTony’s Corner Pocket is the Hoton gay-bar equivalent of Lola’s Depot, an analogy that should make perfect sense to anyone who lik their bars on the dive-y si. Crocker Bar’s nvenient lotn the heart of the cy’s gayborhood also provis patrons wh easy accs to several of the area’s other great LGBTQ+ bars. Gee Country Sports BarMontroseEvery cy needs a gay wboy bar, and Hoton is fortunate enough to have Gee Country Sports Bar.

Gee’s rabow flag-adorned vered pat is also one of the bt plac the neighborhood to people-watch sce borrs Fairview, which serv as the ma pestrian thoroughfare for the gayborhood. For more than a century, even before Pri Month’s orig 1969, gay bars have persevered around the world as a way for the LGBTQ muny to nnect and celebrate. Hoton’s gay bars, particular, have been a place where people n nvene regardls of their inty and have played a key role Montrose velopg s reputatn as the cy’s “gayborhood.

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

” While more safe spac exist, gay bars are still a rnerstone the muny, while also beg a prime place to enjoy a happy hour cktail, a drag show, or a night of dancg. And fortunate for Bayou Cy, Hoton’s diversy, even among the LGBT muny, means there’s no shortage of gay hangouts. Grab a beer and relax wh iends at Robert’s Lafte Galvton, the olst gay bar Texas, or h up the newly reopened South Beach Montrose for a long night of drks and dancg.

Whether you intify as LGBTQ or if you’re jt an ally for a good time, the 18 sential Hoton gay bars are sure to be your new favore neighborhood bar year-round. Crocker Bar is a dark, loud, but vg ltle bar that serv as the perfect place to grab a drk before venturg out to the rt of the gayborhood.

The self-scribed olst leather bar Texas, Riprd has been a fixture of Hoton’s gay bar scene sce 1982. Take the stairse up to Eagle’s Phoenix room and gaze at a timele of major historil gay events on the wall. After four long years of renovatns, Montrose’s rnerstone gay club re-opened July 2022 for drkg, dancg and partyg.

GAY HOTON

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.