The Queer Oasis of Jackson, Mississippi's Lone Gay Bar

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• THE BEST JACKSON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON
•  MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
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• INSI THE HOTTT GAY BAR THE MOST HOMOPHOBIC STATE THE NATN
• THE BEST MISSISSIPPI GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MISSISSIPPI
• GAYT PLAC IN MISSISSIPPI FOR 2020
•  MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

THE BEST JACKSON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON

Ask them where their first gay bar was, and they'll likely give you a different answer each time. Formerly another gay bar named Bottoms Up, 's unrgone new ownership, but attracts the same old crowd.

And although livg as a gay uple Mississippi hasn't been the stereotypil opprsive nightmare some outsirs might thk is, they still turn heads durg their day-to-day life.

 MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

And people realize we're gay bee two guys stg on the same si of the booth is jt not the norm when there's an empty si. Here, don't matter if you're gay, straight, bi, transgenr. "I was like this young ltle gay boy that was so love wh all the drag queens, and I was like, I want to do that one day, " Illumati says.

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"There are so many plac out there that bash gay people, talk about , ll all typ of eaks, " she says.

— It was a big night for gay Bill 1523, the legislature's attempt to tablish a sort of Southern-ied sharia over the state's LGBT populatn, had been molished by a feral judge jt hours earlier.

INSI THE HOTTT GAY BAR THE MOST HOMOPHOBIC STATE THE NATN

Mike Pence (R), now Donald Tmp's nng mate, that let bs refe service to any group they nsired heretil to their the clock was tickg toward midnight si WonrLt, lolly signated as the hottt and most "Vegas" gay bar perhaps the most homophobic state the spac, purple-l club are maybe 30 patrons. The celer irony for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people is that two of the cultural forts agast the age-old poverty and discrimatn have been the church and fay — both of which are often nied to 3, 484 same-sex upl here reprent jt 3.

THE BEST MISSISSIPPI GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MISSISSIPPI

14 of every 1, 000 hoeholds, a rat that ranks 49th the natn, acrdg to the Williams Instute, a thk tank at the UCLA School of Law that tracks gay life. No state Ameri has passed more rtrictive legislatn on gay life, more emphatilly supported anti-gay referendums, or featured such blisterg nmnatn om the pulp or the polil podium. "It's disappotg that once aga the feral ernment has to stand up for jtice and equaly our state, " says Rob Hill, a former Methodist mister and now the state director of the Human Rights a rult, gay life here plays out maly as a don't-ask-don't-tell echo of days gone by.

When I walk out that door I have three strik agast me — I’m black, gay and a woman. ”Fondren, the historic arts district that li about four north of the state pol buildg, is Jackson's "gayborhood, " home to WonrLt and a low-tensy mag for a good b of openly LGBT Eudora Welty hoe is nearby.

It is set behd a saggg cha-lk is Jack's Constctn Se, which was, until closed two weeks ago, the bar and gatherg spot for Jackson's LGBT crowd for a wasn’t flashy, but if you are of a certa age was somethg like Mississippi’s Official Gay Bar. There were a uple of pool tabl and some vtage Hollywood a recent morng here ss owner Jack Myers, 71, the patron sat of Mississippi’s gay scene.

GAYT PLAC IN MISSISSIPPI FOR 2020

He has n one gay bar or another this town for 50 years, startg back when even terracial marriage was ’s explag that although J. The anctral tate is a mobile me out as gay his early 20s.

He worked as an X-ray technician durg the days and ran gay bars at night. “They have this ia of what gay people do.

 MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

They thk gay people are all one way. They jt don’t realize gay people have all sorts of preferenc and jobs and thgs, jt like they do. They thk if you’re not limp-wristed or lispg, well, then, you’re not gay.

Police let him be, he says, bee they realized a gay bar was the perfect place for married officers to take their mistrs. ”***The great gay in of Mississippi is one of the great gay ins of 20th-century Ameri: Tennsee Williams, the Pulzer Prize-wng playwright. Lived as a child Clarksdale, the heart of the “Cat on a Hot T Roof, ” Williams foc on a wealthy Delta planter and his mendac fay, torn apart by his closeted son, Brick, and his sex-starved wife, bee "Cat" is a fg work of Southern gothic and a classic of Amerin theater, people elsewhere always seem surprised that there are any openly gay people Mississippi, like they're giraff that fell off a tck on Interstate 55, on their way to brighter lights and bigger is not totally air self seems to breathe Southern Baptist.

Drivg across the state, om universy towns to beachsi ndos, om Delta farms to hill untry pastur, you'll see far more Conferate flags than gay-pri banners. Big gay personali, such as Kev Ssums, thor of "Mississippi Sissy, " seem to have left a long time has never been an openly gay member of the state legislature or of statewi elected offic. They and other gay stunts joked that should be lled “Mississippi’s Closet” bee so many gays and lbians were Mississippians are not offered state-law protectns om discrimatn — a landlord n legally evict a tenant for beg gay.