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The clost thg to a gay bar that n be found Tyler, Texas, is the one eveng a week a lol waterg hole hosts a "mixed clientele" night, when gays are "more wele than ual" the notorly nservative bastn of the untry. However, if you happen to fd yourself drivg through ... * tyler texas gay bars *

The clost thg to a gay bar that n be found Tyler, Texas, is the one eveng a week a lol waterg hole hosts a "mixed clientele" night, when gays are "more wele than ual" the notorly nservative bastn of the untry. Highway 69, a sign that reads, "ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY, NEXT 2 MILES, TYLER AREA GAYS. "As nocuo as seems on the surface, the simple sign reprents a gigantic step forward for a regn of Ameri where homophobia is so prevalent that jt a few short years ago a lol AIDS service anizatn censored an ad om the then-fledglg Project TAG (Tyler Area Gays) -- which is rponsible for the Adopt-A-Highway sign -- simply bee the text of the ad mentned the words "gay" and "lbian.

""I've lived here [ Tyler] for about three and a half years and I've never lived a place that was so homophobic, " Project TAG chairman and founr Troy Carlyle told "This anizatn, Project TAG, was takg out an ad wh a fund-raiser for an AIDS service anizatn here. To let them know what we're all about, [and] they removed the words 'gay' and 'lbian' om [the ad] bee they thought they were offensive.

"The actns of the anizatn so censed Carlyle, an East Texas transplant, that he felt somethg had to be done to make gays and lbians more visible his newly chosen home.

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It was that righteo dignatn, along wh a sire to create a sense of muny a town that is perhaps bt known as the place where a young gay man named Nicholas Wt was abducted by three straight men and btally murred the mid 1990s, that spired Carlyle to lnch the webse that would later give birth to Project TAG and the highway sign that prently has all of East Texas buzzg. "So was clear to that we need to get the word gay out there so that people n see and we n start to sensize people.

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We may be one of the last plac Ameri to allow gays to live relatively ee of hatred, but we were the first to sist that our roads be ee of lter. "Dpe his enthiasm, however, Carlyle reunts that he was ially warned not to proverbially rock the boat sleepy East Texas by some of his newfound gay iends Tyler who feared a backlash. the gay muny [ Tyler] was so fearful that we had to rema.

been so beaten we've e to believe some of the antigay. rhetoric, so enmic is very low self-teem [among gays] and a. openly gay people Tyler that when Carlyle moved to the cy a ltle.

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