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TYLER, TX - GAY LIFE A STRONG FRIENDLY SOUTHERN CY
Tyler Texas offers a relaxed gay liftyle wh strong muny support and LGBT retirement hom. Tyler also has a very strong, iendly gay muny lled TAG that has a webse at It holds many events every month cludg masked balls, danc, fairs and also aniz many special tert clubs such as a film club, dner group, pk pistols, a “ladi dner”, patball, game night, bowlg, football and more. Not every area here is iendly to gays so is a good ia to nsult wh a Tyler Gay Realtor before you buy.
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 . 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.
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. 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."I was told when I started dog this -- when I started out wh the onle muny which evolved to Project TAG -- that I would be assassated wh months of startg the webse," Carlyle offers matter-of-factly.