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THE “GAYBORHOODS” OF TEXAS
And wt of Lemmon Gay Live! A stylish statn for shoppg, dg, and the arts, Dallas hosts one of the untry's top Gay Pri celebratns, which tak place early June 2024.
Oak Lawn: The Hub of LGBTQ DallasThere are few neighborhoods North Ameri wh a more lively and visible LGBTQ scene than Oak Lawn Dallas, an attractive mix of rintial and mercial blocks wh a nvenient lotn near Uptown, the swanky Turtle Creek and Highland Park districts, the trendy Dign District, and Dallas Love Field, which is the regn’s hub for flights on Southwt five blocks of Cedar Sprgs Road between Oak Lawn Avenue and Wycliff Avenue teem wh fun gay bars, hip rtrants, and stylish shops—and visors n even overnight at one of the cy’s most elegant historic acmodatns, the Warwick Melrose Hotel Dallas, a grand 1920s stunner that’s popular as well for LGBTQ weddgs, and also simply for relaxg the famo Library baret and cktail more on what to see and do this vibrant cy, have a look at the excellent webse of Vis Dallas, where you’ll also fd a very eful sectn geared toward LGBTQ LGBTQ Pri 2024A signature event for the LGBTQ muny and for the cy as a whole sce 1983, Dallas Gay Pri had for years taken place Oak Lawn September, but a few years ago moved to early June, and the ftivi—cludg the tradnal Alan Ross Texas Freedom Para—now take place downtown’s Fair Park, near Deep Ellem. Planng to attend some of the other great Pri events Texas and nearby stat, such as Hoton, At, Galvton, and New Orleans Gay Pri? Check out our 2023-2024 Texas LGBTQ Pri Gay Bars Oak Lawn and BeyondAs the number of gay bars has ntued to fall steadily most ci around the untry, Dallas ntu to have one of the hight numbers of LGBTQ tablishments anywhere, part bee most of the bar owners here have work together to support each other and the muny through their membership the Dallas Tavern Cedar Sprgs Road, and pecially on the uple of blocks between Reagan and Knight Streets, you’ll fd some of the most popular gay bars the cy, if even all of Texas—standouts like JR’s Bar and Grill (fun for people- and vio-watchg), Sue Ellen’s (a world-class lbian bar), Statn 4 (a massive dance club wh wildly entertag drag shows), the Mg Company (a long-nng drkery wh a large terrace and pool tabl si), Round-Up Saloon (your go-to for untry-wtern two-step and le dancg and also a rehgly iendly all-genrs-iendly hangout), Mr.
Misster (wh drag bnch, creative cktails, and fun dancg), Havana (another popular optn for dancg), Alexandre’s (a iendly, classy lounge wh first-rate live-mic acts and fe cktails), and Dallas Woody’s (a cheerful neighborhood spot) beyond this strip along Cedar Sprgs Road, you’ll fd a number of other very lively and popular gay bars—such as the Hidn Door (a iendly, long-nng neighborhood bar) and Kaliente (a beloved queer Lato dance club)—many other parts of the Oak Lawn district, and a few other to Stay DallasWhether you’re visg durg Pri or another time of year, you’ll fd a wealth of appealg LGBTQ-welg hotels Dallas, om ultra-swanky ntemporary roosts popular wh visg actors and micians to historic landmarks, such as the aforementned Warwick Melrose Hotel Dallas, the heart of Oak Lawn, wh s 184 handsomely appoted rooms and su, many wh expansive stg areas and all wh roomy bathrooms accented wh marble and chy beddg. 7, 2023Wa Gay Pri/Out on the Brazos Pri – Usually early to mid-October, but 2023 dat TBAAll photography at is by Andrew Colls, unls otherwise noted. Para HistoryDallas’ first gay Pri para was a small affair by today’s 1972, jt three after the Stonewall rts New York Cy, a ftive group of between 250 and 300 men and women gathered to show their pri.