The story of Gary Turner and how he turned a dream to the Gay Para Gas Statn at Paris Junctn, Missouri, a Route 66 landmark and road trip attractn.
Contents:
- GAY PARA, A ROUTE 66 LANDMARK THAT HOLDS A UNIQUE SPOT OZARKS HISTORY
- GARY'S GAY PARA
- WHERE IS GEE MAHARIS TODAY? DID GAY STIGMA DAMAGE HIS CAREER?
GAY PARA, A ROUTE 66 LANDMARK THAT HOLDS A UNIQUE SPOT OZARKS HISTORY
The gay bars along Route 66 may be gone, but they n live on our history books—and our photos. * gay route 66 *
Gay bars. While I traveled Route 66 wh the Natnal Tst om Chigo to Sprgfield, Missouri, I documented plac muni along the inic highway that historilly weled gay travelers. The subject of gay bars om the past really terts me.
Where I live New York Cy I lead a walkg tour about “gay bars that are gone” and people who attend share histori and sometim memori om LGBTQ spac, datg as far back as the 1870s. The are spac where gay Amerins found joy, love, muny, and solidary the face of great social and polil adversy. To document the “gay bars that are gone” of Route 66, I me wh a few important thgs my suse: two LGBTQ USA travel guis om the year 1966 (cintally) and a rabow flag.
GARY'S GAY PARA
* gay route 66 *
One was tled: "The Lavenr Baeker ‘66: A Guibook to Gay, Intertg, Hysteril, and Historic Plac the U. The other gui was a Damron Gui om 1966, which is an LGBTQ travel pany that still exists and has been publishg gay travel guis sce 1964.
WHERE IS GEE MAHARIS TODAY? DID GAY STIGMA DAMAGE HIS CAREER?
This third edn Damron Gui chronicled more than 900 plac across the Uned Stat and Canada remend for gay travelers. Asi om the dozens of gay bars servg Chigo, the first “gay bar that is gone” I me across was Esquire Cocktails Joliet, Illois, which existed 1966 at 211 North Chigo Street and, acrdg to the Damron Gui, served a mixed crowd while the “back part” was primarily for gay patrons.
The addrs proved too difficult to lote, but the fact that there was a gay bar scene the relatively small cy of Joliet (famo for s 1858 prison) amazed me.