A velopment plan would mata Oiln Harry's but displace two other gay-iendly bars
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Homotech, YouShoot, EDGE Media Network, Pri Labs and QueeryMe are registered tramarks of EDGE Publitns, Inc. Mih Andrs, print of the At Gay and Lbian Pri Foundatn, nfirmed an email Monday the para will ntue as planned. The plan don’t currently impact Oiln’s next-door neighbor Ra on 4th, another noteworthy neighborhood gay bar.
Co-owner Larry Davis opened Oiln 1990, and beme a go-to hub for the gay muny. Before Oiln Harry's opened 1990, the blocks near Fourth and Colorado were home to Kansas, the Boathoe, and other long-gone gay bars at the edge of the then-emergg Warehoe District. While an archectural promise is promisg (and uld set a precent for future velopments olr buildgs that don't que make the "historic" cut), dozens of members of At's queer muny have reached out to Council Member Kathie Tovo, whose District 9 clus the area, to say the cy n't afford to lose s unofficial gay district.
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" If Fourth Street is no longer home to the cy's gay district, though, where a new district forms should emerge (as Fourth Street did) om grassroots anizatn and anic velopment, rather than a cy cisn, Tovo said. "By allowg this [new] buildg to take up so much of the gayns of Fourth and Colorado, you're removg roughly 40 years of history one fell swoop.
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