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Contents:

• BLUE MOON RORT FOR GAY MEN
• MOVG TO LGBT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• THE 5 BEST LAS VEGAS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LAS VEGAS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• HORRIBLE! GAY ACTIVI THE STEAM... - QUA BATHS & SPA

BLUE MOON RORT FOR GAY MEN

15Las Vegas, NV 89169702-737-7780Las Vegas’ source for GLBT (gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr) products, rmatn and servic.

MOVG TO LGBT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

This area is known as the F Loop for s clter of gay-oriented bs. Part of that reason is that, as gay thor Michael Thomas Ford has poted out, “There’s more to be found a gay store than jt somethg nice to read.

” Jt walkg to a gay store n be an act of liberatn, and such shops often serve as welg space for the queer muny otherwise hostile environments.

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In the years before Stonewall, gay lerature was unavailable Nevada outsi porn shops, and there were few mercial bookstor willg to stock such material.

The first tablishment Las Vegas to offer LGBT merchandise and to advertise openly as a gay shop, was R&R Assordid Sundri. R&R was ahead of s time, was more gift shop than bookstore, and was not much patronized by the Las Vegas gay muny. Dalton, Walnbooks, and, later, Barn & Noble and Borrs, began stockg gay sectns.

Schlegel me up wh the name Bright Pk Lerature and s pk triangle logo as an homage to the book, The Men Wh the Pk Triangle, about Nazi persecutn of gay men. Schlegel kept over 200 gay tl stock and particularly tried to rry a wi selectn of lbian lerature. Bright Pk was a wele addn to the growg Las Vegas gay muny.

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In associatn wh Bright Pk Lerature, Schlegel tablished a gay and lbian film ftival he named Bright Pk Cema, which buted on April 20, 1991 and ran for six weeks at the Metropolan Communy Church. Among the films Schlegel prented were many which have bee classics of LGBT cema: Before Stonewall; Billy Turner's Secret; Fun Down There; and the gay Ain-Amerin documentary Tongu Untied.

And when Ed Uehlg and Marlon Tana revealed plans to turn their property to a “gay district, ” neighbors apartment plex behd the area, who already hated the nearby gay clubs, told the Clark County Commissn that Bright Pk was a porno shop. Even then, harassment om the unty didn’t stop: a large vant lot next door to the shoppg center, which the gay muny ed as a se for overflow parkg, was fenced off.

When W Miller and Marlon Tana took over Bright Pk Lerature, they changed the name to Get Booked honor of W Miller’s 1992 arrt a Las Vegas Metropolan Police stg operatn that targeted gay men along Paradise Road.

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Stg operatns agast gay men Nevada had long been a favore tool of threat and harassment, particularly so long as the state’s sodomy law was still on the books. Durg the summer of 1992, the Metro vice squad set up several such operatns the Las Vegas Valley, leadg to the arrt of gay men the Las Vegas Athletic Club, Jaycee Park, and Nellis Air Force Base. The Paradise Road stg volved unrver vice ps tryg to manver gay men around the F Loop tersectn to a sexual liaison, and then btg them on charg of solicg for prostutn or famo crime agast nature.

W Miller was arrted on June 25, 1992 when he was approached by a vice p posg as a married tourist Las Vegas for a “chef’s” nventn and wantg to explore his “gay tennci. Neverthels, they threw him a holdg cell wh several other gay men arrted that night om whom Miller found out what was gog on.

Miller’s iend Denise Thompson bailed him out, he rerd an terview wh several lears om the gay muny cludg lawyer Kev Kelly, and all went to Metro the next day wh evince hand. The embarrassment of that and siar cints for members of the muny nvced W that Get Booked need to be a safe haven, a place gay people didn't have to worry about vice officers lurkg the shadows to entrap and arrt them.

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Get Booked beme an anchor for the Las Vegas gay muny where artists, wrers, performers, micians and polil figur gathered for tograph receptns, ncerts, art shows and other social events. Among those hosted at Get Booked the 1990's and to the 2000's were Robbi Sommers of Naiad Prs; gay ex-FBI agent Frank Butto; famed impersonator Frank Maro, who signed his tobgraphy, His Majty, the Queen; Llea Newman, thor of Heather Has Two Mommi; Dr. Charl Silverste, who wrote The Joy of Gay Sex (and who beme a regular visor and gut); historian Karla Jay; and famed novelist Patricia Nell Warren, thor of one of the bt known gay novels.

Get Booked has flourished unr W Miller and Rl Mangubat, outlivg several petors and at the time of this wrg remas one of gay Las Vegas's most important rourc.

And did we mentn a tight-kn queer muny and a weekly gay pool party that is famed around the world?

Y, jt like Nashville, Philalphia, San Diego, and other fabuloly gay US ci, there is also an active gay scene here (if you know where to look), and this is somethg a gay realtor Las Vegas n help you navigate as you fd your new perfect home here.