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WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?

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The ash pile of the Rabow Lounge, Fort Worth’s most inic gay bar and an epicenter of the town’s then-burgeong “gayborhood, ” took wh paful and joyo memori of a gay scene the cy hasn’t been able to replite sce. There are only about half a dozen gay bars Fort Worth.

AFTER MONTHS OF BEG SHUTTERED, DFW GAY BARS ARE SLOWLY MAKG A COMEBACK

Jackie O’s, 609 S Jenngs Av, FW. Sun-Sat 3pm-2am daily.   There’s no shortage of queer-iendly jots on the Near Southsi, but Fort Worth’s number of self-intifyg gay bars (Club Chang, Club Reflectns, Liberty Lounge, Urban Cowboy Saloon) is relatively small for a cy boastg nearly 1 ln * gay cowboy bar fort worth *

Jt a few years ago, there was a growg gay bar scene an area south of downtown. When the inic Rabow Lounge burned down 2017, the "gayborhood" permanently changed. Lol police and TABC agents raid the then recently-opened bar on the 40th anniversary of the raid at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, which set off the Stonewall Rts and gave birth to the morn gay rights movement.

The timg of the raid censed the lol gay muny and s supporters. When the Rabow Lounge burned, the number of gay bars the cy was already paratively low.

Back the early ’80s, the town boasted nearly 20 gay bars. Todd Camp — a lol gay rights activist, -founr and former artistic director and executive director of QCema, Fort Worth's Gay & Lbian Internatnal Film Ftival, the state's longt nng gay film ftival — said the lack of lol gay bars isn’t necsarily a bad sign for the cy.

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“The gay muny is the dog that ught the r, ” he said. You n walk to almost any bar the cy of Fort Worth on any given night and fd gay people beg openly gay, kissg, beg emotnal, engagg public displays of affectn wh no fear of repercsns bee, for the most part, people feel fortable. Camp has been rearchg Fort Worth’s gay history datg back to the turn of the 20th Century for a book he’s wrg.

AFTER MONTHS OF BEG SHUTTERED, DFW GAY BARS ARE SLOWLY MAKG A COMEBACK

Jackie O’s, 609 S Jenngs Av, FW. Sun-Sat 3pm-2am daily.   There’s no shortage of queer-iendly jots on the Near Southsi, but Fort Worth’s number of self-intifyg gay bars (Club Chang, Club Reflectns, Liberty Lounge, Urban Cowboy Saloon) is relatively small for a cy boastg nearly 1 ln * gay cowboy bar fort worth *

Acrdg to his data, there have been more than 100 gay bars Fort Worth and nearby Arlgton, wh 651 Club the longt-tenured at about 35 years (and the Rabow Lounge was later hoed the same buildg), and a club lled Trixx lastg only one weekend. When prohibn end, gays and lbians were forbidn om drkg bars.

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Other gay clubs opened spe police crackdowns, Camp said. “All the gay men would grab a girl and they would start dancg so that when they ps me , they wouldn't be arrted, ” he said. Homosexualy, he said, only really beme taboo the ’50s and ’60s.

Though the gay muny wasn’t tegrated then, lived alongsi the heterosexual muny peacefully.

“No one really had a problem wh gayns.

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One of the reasons the Fort Worth gay bar scene has been slow to grow sce the 1980s is the lure of Dallas’ thrivg gay scene drawg away people — particularly young people who prefer a more up-tempo dance scene rather than Fort Worth’s more languid e-as-you-are vibe. “There was a parkg lot downtown that was famo, bee that was where gays would meet and they would all park and then drive to Dallas bars. Dallas always had a much more thrivg gay scene.

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