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AN INPLETE COMPILATN OF THE GAY BARS AT HAS LOVED AND LOST
Owners rell 30-pl years At gay bar bs * the cellar gay bar *
Owners rell 30-pl years At gay bar bs. When I first reached To Calron, the BT2 -owner was by packg up an in of At’s gay nightlife.
It was ls than 24 hours after the North At gay bar had announced s permanent shutterg: In the wake of COVID-19’s fancial fallout, Calron and -owner Ray McDermett had cid was time to fold.
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Partners both bs and life, Calron and McDermett have a 30-pl year legacy helmg At gay bars: Private Cellar, 505 Club, Charlie’s (later Charlie’s At), and ’Bout Time.
Over the phone after another long day of packg, the uple reflected on their first time an At gay bar, the chang they’ve wnsed the dtry, and their favore memori of the ’Bout Time fay. We started the gay bar bs back 1982 wh the Private Cellar and 1984 wh Enzo’s, a straight bar, and the next step was Charlie’s. Lubbock was a hard town to have a gay bar [lghs].
AC: You guys beg around for 35 years and a ltle more, you’ve probably seen a lot of gay bars e and go. One thg I always tell people is for the longt time, I always remember there beg ne gay bars om the mid-Eighti to the early Neti at least. RM: Back the early Eighti, gay bars were the only plac that gay people went.
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But a gay bar, that’s where people were able to be themselv and relax. Nowadays ’s e to a lot [of non-gay] bars that even have gay days or gay nights. AC: How have you guys seen the gay bar bs change At the past 35 years?
AC: When you guys pulled up to At, how many gay bars were there? TC: One of the thgs that’s changed over the years, as far as the gay bar bs, is where you n advertise and where people n fd rmatn about you. RM: One thg I should add is that the very first anizatn that the gay bar owners had Texas was BOAT, Bar Owners Associatn of Texas.