LGBTQ+ Asheville: Your Bt Bets for Gay-Friendly Travel

Contents:

• GAY PARKS NEAR ME
• THE BT 10 GAY BARS NEAR ADDISON, IL 60101
• GAY NEIGHBORHOOD ADDISON (TENNSEE)
• THE BT 10 GAY BARS NEAR ADDISON, TX 75001
• CHIGO PRI PARA 2022: MAP, TRANSPORTATN TAILS AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS CHIGO
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS
• LGBTQ+ ASHEVILLE: YOUR BT BETS FOR GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL
• GAY NYC DANCER FATALLY STABBED WHILE VOGUG AT GAS STATN; HATE CRIME VTIGATN LNCHED

GAY PARKS NEAR ME

Search this areaGroceriHotelsGas statnsParkg LotsBanksPharmaciTakeoutRtrantsPost OfficHospals▷About gay parks near meFd a gay parks near you today. ▷About gay parksWhen you enter the lotn of gay parks, we'll show you the bt rults wh shortt distance, high sre or maximum search volume. Mart Leve ed spot maps of bars and cisg grounds to substantiate a "gay ghetto"; Jen Jack Giekg analyzed dividuals' "mental maps" of queer space; Am Ghaziani criqued the enclave theory of "gayborhoods" favor of what he terms "cultural archipelagos.

As Hoton's Montrose neighborhood me to be intified as a "gayborhood" between 1960 and 1980, archival evince shows that cisg narrativ played a powerful role that intifitn. Rather, ntemporary popular culture, high art, lerature, pornography, and vernacular speech ntue to reproduce face-to-face cisg public as part of a globally available gay sexual vobulary and social practice. Through documentg the disparate works of people who me to meet on Hoton's cisg grounds—tentnal sex-seekers, crimals explog stigmas attached to gay sex, ambivalent law enforcement officials, area nizens, and perhaps ially naïve passersby—I argue that the social distributn of knowledge about cisg illtrat that queer terrori functned part bee some who do not intify as "queer" also imaged those terrori as nnected to queer liv.

THE BT 10 GAY BARS NEAR ADDISON, IL 60101

Leve borrows four creria om the soclogists Robert Park and Louis Wirth to asss the stat of a "gay ghetto": stutnal ncentratn, culture area, social isolatn, and rintial ncentratn. His "exploratory fieldwork" nsisted of walkg around neighborhoods observg gay life and talkg wh gay people, activi que parallel to cisg self.

" That multiplicy of spac grounds his proposal "that we redirect the study of sexualy and space away om our preexistg assumptns of spatial sgulary—evced by a steady stream of publitns about dividual gay districts—toward a cultural archipelagos mol of spatial pluraly. Durg the twenty-year span centered on the 1969 Stonewall rts New York, cisg narrativ Hoton exhib a multiplicy of opns about a multiplicy of spac, even as public awarens of the Montrose neighborhood as "gay" solidified both lolly and natnally. To unrstand better how Montrose shifted om that ele suburb to a "gayborhood, " I began a project 2014 spired by Leve's spot maps.

Historil queer advertisg ually picts that clientele as gay men and lbians, often but not always as separate populatns rather than a sgle market. Here, "tertg" served as for "gay"; the words "gay" and "homosexual" never appear the League's program, even though the drag event raised money to help those arrted raids on gay bars. While such a 1950s bar uld be any of those Carl Wtman laments his "Gay Manifto, " the 1980's bar I mentn here is que specific.

GAY NEIGHBORHOOD ADDISON (TENNSEE)

Also, attendg only to bars and bs n skew our perceptn of queer space along class-flected l; profsnal middle-class and upper-class lbians and gays chewed the bar scene as dangero for some time, even as recently as the 1990s.

In Hoton, that pattern stctured the Dianas, an almost exclively whe, upper-middle-class social anizatn of mostly gay men that origated 1953 as an Amy Awards watch party a private home. Mappg bar lotns sourced a mostly whe-oriented gay prs also elis Black, Indigeno, and other People of Color, along wh their specific works and practic.

THE BT 10 GAY BARS NEAR ADDISON, TX 75001

"The 'gay circu'—they didn't know the word 'gay'—was downtown Hoton, between Frankl and McKney and Ma Street east to San Jacto. You uld not tell a queer or a fag (the words they ed then) om the straight, which was the way the gays wanted , beg fearful for their liv and jobs. See also William Michael Smh, "Lookg Back at Some of the Hurdl Hoton's Gay Communy Had to Overe (Part 1), " June 20, 2014, ; "Hoton's Earlit Gay scen (Part 2), " Hoton Prs, June 23, 2014, ; "'The Homosexual Playground of the South' (Part 3), " June 24, 2014,.

Asi om a few bars that, while not tentnally or exclively gay, served as gatherg spac to those the know—the Rathskeller, the Old Vienna, the Capol Bar, Rex's27Sadly, Hoton cy directori om the 1930s and 1940s did not nfirm the addrs and lotns for the bars documented this article, so they are not clud on the map. Gay works circulated parallel wh other works, but at least Van Allen's acunt, cisers would often move across the cy landspe to more private spac after meetg more public on. Take for example a May 23, 1963 letter a Hotonian sent to the natnally distributed gay homophile magaze ONE, 29ONE Magaze, ONE Archiv at the USC Librari, Los Angel, 2018,.

Gay life Hoton seems relatively trouble-ee as nearly as I n tell om my somewhat aloof perch (I don't patronize bars or attend parti or socialize much).

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The gay folks I meet seem lighted, and glooy proph[ize] that is too good to last—I haven't heard of any trouble so far, though. Don't know of any other part of Hoton where gay life is ncentrated, though, except for a cheap theater downtown where the rough tra operat amazg quanty and ankns—but uld hardly ll that gay life! He also seemed to see himself as livg that ncentrated part of town; he did not "know of any other part of Hoton where gay life is ncentrated" (emphasis me).

Importantly, the wrer is also silent on the subject of race, a silence that suggts Jim Crow culture ntued to texture both "gay life" and "rough tra" the 1960s jt as had "wdow shoppg" the 1930s.

More cur still is that The Nunti ran multiple stori 1971 about the Hoton Gay Liberatn Front picketg the Red Room (see map above for lotn) bee did not adm Black patrons. I me across the rerds que by accint while lookg to substantiate historian Jam Sears' assertn that Welch and gay bar-owner Gee Hger knew each other. They also track claims of reciprol arson among rival gay bar owners, timidatn tactics among natnal pornography distributors vyg for ntrol of the Hoton market, and dividual members of Hoton's nascent Gay Liberatn Front.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

45The Gay Liberatn Front formed New York shortly after the Stonewall rts of 1969, and quickly spread to Canada and the Uned Kgdom.

Though would equently llaborate wh other left anizatns, was short lived; other lbian and gay anizatns had largely supplanted by the mid-1970s. Actrs Liz Torr speaks out agast Ana Bryant's "Save Our Children" mpaign at a gay rights rally the parkg lot of The Deposory at 401 McGowen and Bagby, Hoton, Texas, June 16, 1977.

In an all too faiar rhetoril move forhadowg Ana Bryant's 1977 "Save Our Children" mpaign, Martson foced on protectg "youngsters" om the "crowd of homosexuals and perverts who roam the neighborhood night and day. Dpe wnsg two years of night and day homosexual prence, Martson apparently uld not image even late 1971 that his neighborhood might already be that part of town. The tails of Driskell's memo illtrate how Hoton police officers enacted the laws available to them as they unrstood them, while the cha of munitn self shows how closely the Mayor personally monored police actns regardg the gay muny.

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For more about the impact of Ciao!, see Lus Hilrbrand, "A Suse Full of Vasele, or Travels the 1970s Gay World, " Journal of the History of Sexualy 22, no. Galloway reported that "area gay anizatns" llaborated wh the MCA to pass out flyers at street rners the Montrose Circu on Friday and Saturday nights, rmg potential cisers of the "movg of the historic cisg area" om Montrose to a "non-rintial, semi-isolated area nearer downtown" that would supposedly be "more nducive to cisg ndns, sce the roads are better and there is good lightg.

Jt a few months later, March 1976, Mel Plummer (former owner of Update Texas) wrote a lumn for The Nunti tled "Hoton Cise Circu Closed, " which he argu that the flyer mpaign failed bee the roads at the new lotn uld not handle the volume of r traffic, particularly durg the peak weekend hours for the nearby Farmhoe, a three-story gay bar on Albany. " Plummer's reportg also answered a cur gap Galloway's acunt: he specified the gay anizatns workg wh MCA as the Gay Polil Cc, the Metropolan Communy Church, and "other lol anizatns"—some of whom uld also have offered expert guidance on the move. Even as Plummer asserts that "most Gays have not found a new cise route, " he go on to observe that "many are returng to the old cise route before the days of Montrose.

The nouement of the Candy Man Murrs played out the same year the Amerin Psychologil Associatn removed s classifitn of homosexualy as a mental illns the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual. Such headl and biased language epen our unrstandg of why Plummer might specifilly ment on the "fair and unbiased reportg" regardg the no-turn signs and cisg; jt weeks before the no-turn signs went up, many Hotonians were imagg a murro, gay prostute Montrose. In that ntext, battl over whether gay men uld or should claim Montrose as their cisg grounds have an unrstandable urgency, and not jt for cisg men ncerned about their own safety.

GAY NYC DANCER FATALLY STABBED WHILE VOGUG AT GAS STATN; HATE CRIME VTIGATN LNCHED

1974, "[t]he Mayor, orr to rce growg tensn arisg between straights and gays, immediately advised bar owners that he would not terfere wh bs so long as their patrons weren't a public nuisance. Cisg Montrose was steeped emotns and nflictg terts: straight-gay tensns, bs ncerns, rints' long-standg noise and traffic plats, and murro headl (none of which ever mentned race as a motivatg factor).