A velopment plan would mata Oiln Harry's but displace two other gay-iendly bars
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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. " 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.