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- MOVG TO LGBT AT, TEXAS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
- THE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO AT, TEXAS: THE BT GAY BARS, DRAG EVENTS AND MUNY
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When the cy of At required liabily surance to host a gay event a public park for 2, 000 people, the hefty price tag almost crippled Pri before began. Wh only $100 to s name, the newly formed At Lbian and Gay Pri Commissn had jt enough to open a bank acunt and had already spent $5 on prtg checks.
Kip Dollar, one of the foundg members of the missn, relled how rare was for anizatns to e "gay and lbian" official nam at the time – as when he went to the At Police Department for a street closure perm. He looked at my applitn and said, 'At Lbian and Gay Pri Commissn? But even before Stonewall, At, Texas, had a thrivg – albe unrground – gay and lbian scene.
In 1990, Eric Jason Ganther pleted his UT-At master's this, "From Closet to Csa: The Stggle for Lbian-Gay Civil Rights At, Texas, 1970-1982" (which liv s entirety at the At History Center). Though Ganther's work foc on the years followg Stonewall, he not that prr to 1970, At's lbian and gay muny "was not polilly nsc of self, " but was active.
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The cy's first documented gay bar – the Manhattan Club, loted on Congrs between Nth and 10th streets – opened 1958. (At least one operatg gay bar has existed At ever sce.
) Ganther nclus that by the late Sixti, At had an "unrground work of socially active homosexuals" who met at bars and private hom. At’s Gay Liberatn Front hosted the First Annual Natnal Gay Conference 1971. GLF -founr Dennis Paddie relled the ll to actn: “Come to At for a nventn, all you gay people.
Acrdg to activist, poet, and playwright Dennis Paddie, At's gay rights movement blossomed out of s anti-war movement. " which lled for the "liberatn of homosexuals" om a society of opprsn.
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It was the first lolly published piece wrten by self-intified gays – though would not be the last. A few months later, roughly 25 people attend a "meetg of homosexuals" – as was advertised The Daily Texan – on April 24, 1970, which is believed to be the first public meetg for lbians and gays At history. From me At's Gay Liberatn Front, one of several GLFs formg across the untry and Texas' first radil gay anizatn.