Explore Historic Gay Street Knoxville TN | Thgs to Do

Contents:

• Y’ALL MEANS ALL – THE GAY SCENE KNOXVILLE
• GAY NIGHTLIFE KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE: BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• GAY STREET
• THE SPICE AND TEA EXCHANGE OF KNOXVILLE OPENS TODAY ON GAY STREET
• GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• ADDISON'S IS LIKE A GAY STREET 'TREASURE HUNT,' WH RARE AND ODD BOOKS OM CENTURI AGO
• ADDISON’S BOOKS TO OPEN AT 126 SOUTH GAY STREET
• MOVG TO LGBT KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Y’ALL MEANS ALL – THE GAY SCENE KNOXVILLE

In 2012 the ternatnal LGBTQ Magaze The Advote listed Knoxville as the “8th Gayt Cy Ameri” durg s untdown of plac to live or vis the USA. Gay Street Downtown Knoxville urty of Tod Sheley. Knoxville Gay Men’s Chos – Broadway on Gay Street Concert urty of Steve Soargoak.

GAY NIGHTLIFE KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE: BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

I n easily say that I know hundreds of gay people that live Knoxville, and even after 13 years I meet new people every day that have lived here jt as long as me and yet I had never crossed their path up until recently.

I thk this is important to highlight a way that mak our cy feel more personal and charmg to a gay person wantg to e vis . At the same time, if you want to e to Knoxville and jt go explorg downtown or head off to one of our gay bars or gay iendly tablishments then there is a very good chance you will meet some amazg people. I’m sure everyone has read and book or watched a movie where the plot volv a small town closeted gay kid movg away to go to the big universy, which wds up beg the life changg moment where they fally feel accepted for beg different and learn to love who they are, si and out.

I thk around 50% of the gay people I know livg this cy eher moved here to go to school at the Universy of Tennsee or they moved here for a job at UT or Oak Ridge Natnal Laboratory. Activism: Havg an activist spir is a thg to be valued the gay muny & Knoxville has had a urageo history wh activism of var sorts throughout the last century. As the cy has grown and changed and bee more acceptg of gay and transgenr people our choic for plac to fd entertament and meet iends has opened up to clu most all of downtown Knoxville.

GAY STREET

Gay or straight, we all like to explore a cy and jt have a great time. Gay Nightlife: One si effect of Knoxville havg a welg environment towards LGBTQ people is that we have a smaller number of Queer Bars than we ed to a few s ago.

THE SPICE AND TEA EXCHANGE OF KNOXVILLE OPENS TODAY ON GAY STREET

The nightlife for a gay person visg Knoxville is still very open to a whole lot of variety, wh many downtown clubs and bars hostg very mixed crowds of people and gays to be found large numbers everywhere you look.

If you attend one of the “QDP” as they are lled then you n expect to see some of the largt variety of queer people to be found at any given moment the cy, wh many atten beg people that otherwise would shy away om a straight bar or even a tradnal gay bar. View down Gay Street durg the Knox Pri Para 2018 urty of Taryn Ferro.

Occurrg every June, Knox Prift is a ee event held downtown that featur a massive para on Gay Street followed by a day of performanc and entertament at one of our nearby parks.

GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

Some of the bt lol outreach programs for gay youths stgglg wh their sexualy or genr inty are fact church the Knoxville area.

I n’t talk about our cy and the support we receive the gay muny whout mentng the people that keep safe every sgle day. Gay people sometim have a harr time workg at fdg where we f the world, but once we do we want to celebrate wh our muny and share wh the world.

As a member of the LGBTQ muny I really hope that I have managed to show you some reasons why Knoxville is really a betiful ltle gay iendly cy, jt wag for you to e and vis. Apart om a uple of gay-oriented spac, many bars the area are que mixed and blatantly show their support for the LGBTQ+ muny.

ADDISON'S IS LIKE A GAY STREET 'TREASURE HUNT,' WH RARE AND ODD BOOKS OM CENTURI AGO

The cy has bee a haven for gay rints and tourists throughout the regn. For a cy far smaller than Memphis, 's a b surprisg that Knoxville has nearly the same number of gay bars. The Edge: One of the longt-nng and largt gay clubs, The Edge is well outsi the cy center—about 7 wt of town off I-40 along a by road led wh strip malls—but 's very much the top gay venue town.

Held mid-June, 's a full-day event begng wh the morng para through the heart of downtown along the serendipoly named Gay Street. Sce the 1790s, Gay Street has played a primary role Knoxville’s historil and cultural velopment.

Gay Street is home to art galleri, historic theaters, the East Tennsee History Center and more – wh many buildgs listed on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac. Gay Street was the se of the 1796 Constutnal Conventn that rulted the foundg of the state of Tennsee, and was a fol pot for the early polil activy of both the cy and the state of Tennsee. On the eve of the Civil War, Gay Street was the se of simultaneo Unn and Conferate recg ralli.

ADDISON’S BOOKS TO OPEN AT 126 SOUTH GAY STREET

Durg the Civil War, Gay Street saw some early vlence, a fatal shootg of a Unnist monstrator, days after the firg on Ft. William Sanrs died as the rult of wounds the Lamar Hoe on Gay.

After the war, Gay Street saw extensive mercial velopment as railroad nstctn brought an dtrial boom to Knoxville. By 1850, Gay Street was home to three-fourths of Knoxville's mercial activy.

In 1854, Gay Street beme Knoxville's first paved road. Almost all public visors to Knoxville ma an appearance on Gay Street.

MOVG TO LGBT KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Durg the Civil War, Andrew Johnson was shot at when he gave a pro-Unn speech on Gay Street. Others who were seen on Gay Street at one time or another were prohibnist Carrie Natn, Socialist ndidate Eugene V. One of Knoxville’s olst buildgs, the Lamar Hoe, now the ont portn of the Bijou Theatre, was operatg as a hotel facg Gay Street by 1817, when hosted a receptn for Gen.

Begng 1908, Gay Street beme the lotn of Knoxville’s first skyscrapers, steel-ame buildgs of 10 stor or more, begng wh the Burwell Buildg, followed by the taller Holston Buildg, and some years later the Andrew Johnson Hotel, which was for almost half a century the tallt buildg East Tennsee.

From 1960 to 1963, Gay Street was the se of dozens of civil-rights monstratns, first s-s at all-whe lunch unters, then monstratns outsi the still-segregated movie theaters. Gay Street has also been the home of multiple partment stor, cludg Miller’s, which mataed a prence s origal bex-arts brick buildg on Gay for 70 years. It was home to the headquarters of furnure giant Sterchi Brothers, whose logo has bee a signature of the Gay Street skyle, and today is one of downtown’s largt and most popular rintial buildgs.