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Texas has never really been big into the gay bar/club thing. We just have clubs where clubs are more open and accept all people.
Not true at all...there are at least 30+ gay clubs in Dallas/Forth Worth, and Dallas has the Oak Lawn area where Cedar Springs is lined on both sides with gay bars and clubs. Houston (including Galveston and Beaumont) also has at least 30 gay bars and clubs with a high concentration of them in Montrose. There are also a good 15-20 gay clubs and bars EACH in Austin and San Antonio; 10 or so in El Paso; 5 in Corpus Christi; and a couple each in Laredo, Lubbock, McAllen, Brownsville, Amarillo, Bryan, Conroe, Abilene, etc. etc. etc.
These aren't simply clubs that are open and accept all people - of course, gay clubs have always accepted all people - but these are GAY clubs and bars that cater to gay people.
Not true at all...there are at least 30+ gay clubs in Dallas/Forth Worth, and Dallas has the Oak Lawn area where Cedar Springs is lined on both sides with gay bars and clubs. Houston (including Galveston and Beaumont) also has at least 30 gay bars and clubs with a high concentration of them in Montrose. There are also a good 15-20 gay clubs and bars EACH in Austin and San Antonio; 10 or so in El Paso; 5 in Corpus Christi; and a couple each in Laredo, Lubbock, McAllen, Brownsville, Amarillo, Bryan, Conroe, Abilene, etc. etc. etc.
These aren't simply clubs that are open and accept all people - of course, gay clubs have always accepted all people - but these are GAY clubs and bars that cater to gay people.
Those aren't all gay clubs, lots of those clubs just have a very diverse crowd meaning straight people and homosexuals.
Texas has never really been big into the gay bar/club thing. We just have clubs where clubs are more open and accept all people.
I want to give credit where it is due.
I can somewhat understand what you saying, as I spent MUCH time in Dallas, Austin and Houston during the 80's and early 90's. There were MANY clubs I used to frequent that had very mixed crowds that were very tolerant of gay people going all the way back to the Starck Club in Dallas in the 80's to the Lizard Lounge in Austin, and Club 6400 in Houston. If there was one thing that Texans know how to do, it is open a club w/ good dance music.
There were also MANY gay clubs and bars in Texas, and good longstanding ones at that from Rich's in Houston (no longer gay but still frequented by gays), to Oilcan Harry's in Austin, to Bonham Exchange in San Antonio, to Village Station in Dallas (S4). At the time, Houston had one of the largest gay populations in the US - long before Atlanta saw its boom in population, and subsequent boom in gay population.
So for anyone to imply that the larger cities in Texas weren't/aren't very tolerant of gays is just simply not true.
Well that's a completely different tune from your earlier post...that is not the way you presented your information before - if it had been, I wouldn't have responded to you the way I did. Don't go back now and act like you weren't being nasty...you were. When you're hostile, you get hostile responses.
Great "mature" answer. I was not being "nasty". Show me where I was being nasty. But this last post by you definately was.
Great "mature" answer. I was not being "nasty". Show me where I was being nasty. But this last post by you definately was.
Yes, you were...and I don't need to show you because you know where it was and it's in black and white a couple of pages back. Yes, i already explained to you that a nasty attitude gets a nasty attitude in return. You can deny your nasty attitude all you want, but it's recorded in your earlier post - and believe me I've dealt with my share of nasty attitude queens before. Now move on.
Those aren't all gay clubs, lots of those clubs just have a very diverse crowd meaning straight people and homosexuals.
They ARE all gay clubs, my friend. You obviously don't have any idea what you're talking about! There may be plenty of mixed clubs in Texas, just like everywhere else, but the numbers I posted are GAY CLUBS. Period.
Why are you trying to argue something that is a fact? I'm not putting down Texas!
They ARE all gay clubs, my friend. You obviously don't have any idea what you're talking about! There may be plenty of mixed clubs in Texas, just like everywhere else, but the numbers I posted are GAY CLUBS. Period.
Why are you trying to argue something that is a fact? I'm not putting down Texas!
Who says I'm arguing, as usual, your the only one getting upset.
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