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Contents:
- MONTROSE "GAYBORHOOD"
- GUI TO GAY BARS HOTON
- THE “GAYBORHOODS” OF TEXAS
- 2902 GAY AVE, HENRI, VA 23231
MONTROSE "GAYBORHOOD"
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Montrose "Gayborhood". Found 1911 by an eccentric oil tyon, Montrose is Hoton’s famo “gayborhood”, home to our rich and vibrant unterculture movement.
Montrose hoed an timated 30-40 gay bars by the late 1970s, and even today stays te to s spired roots. Along the leather-beaten path, RIPCORD on Fairview is an inic kk bar wh a laid-back feel and the distctn of beg the send olst gay bar Texas.
Montrose’s prolific gay club South Beach was long a Hoton stutn, strivg to enpsulate the clivy of Miami before shuttered 2018 for renovatns.
GUI TO GAY BARS HOTON
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“It’s kd of a rocket lnch or somethg, ” says owner Charl Armstrong, who also operat JR’s Bar & Grill — billed as one of the olst, ntuoly open gay bars the cy. Armstrong says that for more than 30 years and South Beach’s entire 17-year n, he refed to have media and mera crews any gay club for fear of people beg outed, losg their jobs, or their liv generally beg promised. It was a break om some of the nservative and homogeneo cultur he found Texas, he says.
THE “GAYBORHOODS” OF TEXAS
“The relevance of the club scene is still a wonrful platform” for nnectg and tablishg relatnships, says Armstrong, notg that he met the love of his life 42 years ago a gay bar Florida. Gui to Gay Bars Hoton. Neon Boots is Texas' largt gay untry bar -- more than 10, 000 square feet of fun unr one roof.
JR’s has been a staple Hoton’s gay scene for s, helpg form the bedrock of Montrose nightlife. Texas’ “gayborhoods” aren’t jt neighborhoods wh rabow-pated crosswalks at their tersectns; they’re historic muni where Texas pri and gay pri tersect ever-fascatg unison. Their one-of-a-kd rtrants, vivac nightclubs, and lovable lols crown the gayborhoods as attractive statns—no matter where you fall on the sexualy spectm.
In 1947, one of the first gay bars Texas, Club Reno, opened Dallas, heraldg the cy’s LGBTQ muny as one of the earlit to form the state. As that group grew to over 3, 000 while marchg through downtown, Dallas beme the se of the first gay pri para all of Texas. The marker ss at “The Gay Crossroads, ” loted at the tersectn of Throckmorton Street and Cedar Sprgs.
2902 GAY AVE, HENRI, VA 23231
The sign’s backdrop is JR’s Bar & Grill, an inic gay club that has served Amerin eats sce 1980 wh regular drag queen and celebry appearanc. Next door is Statn 4, known to lols as S4, a 24, 000-square-foot nightclub and gay utopia sce 1986. Also at “The Gay Crossroads” tersectn is Sue Ellen’s, nsired to be the olst lbian bar the state.
The Montrose neighborhood Hoton was found 1911 and had an timated 30 to 40 gay bars by the late ’70s. In June of 1977, LGBTQ advote Ray Hill anized a rally prott of sger and anti-gay activist Ana Bryant visg the cy. More than 1, 000 people showed up, which began the gay liberatn movement Montrose and led Hill to help tablish The Montrose Center, an anizatn still operatg today that foc not only on advocy but also on offerg rourc to the muny.