The marker sits at “ The Gay Crossroads,” located at the intersection of Throckmorton Street and Cedar Springs.Īsia O’Hara, a former contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race, performing at The Rose Room on Cedar Springs Road in Dallas. In 2018, Dallas became the first city in Texas with an official Texas Historical Commission subject marker acknowledging its longstanding queer community.
The Oak Lawn neighborhood, located along Cedar Springs Road, has held the heart of the LGBTQ community in Dallas for over 30 years and is the primary assembly point for LGBTQ political and social events, including the annual Alan Ross Freedom Parade. As that group grew to over 3,000 while marching through downtown, Dallas became the site of the first gay pride parade in all of Texas. That emergence intensified in 1972, when three days after the Stonewall Riots, 300 activists took to the streets in the name of equality. In 1947, one of the first gay bars in Texas, Club Reno, opened in Dallas, heralding the city’s LGBTQ community as one of the earliest to form in the state. Their one-of-a-kind restaurants, vivacious nightclubs, and lovable locals crown these gayborhoods as attractive destinations-no matter where you fall on the sexuality spectrum. For decades, all types of people from cowboys to drag queens have lived, worked, and played harmoniously in these charming meccas of queer life. Texas’ “gayborhoods” aren’t just neighborhoods with rainbow-painted crosswalks at their intersections they’re historic communities where Texas pride and gay pride intersect in ever-fascinating unison. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.One of Oak Lawn’s two gateway signs sits at the intersection of Douglas Avenue and Cedar Springs Road, in Dallas, right in front of Kroger. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, and its author. This article appeared originally on The News Outlet.Ĭlick this link for the original source of this article. Unless you’re OK with the sexualization of children, that is. Of course, there is no such thing as a family-friendly drag show. WFAA, the local ABC News outlet in Dallas, referred to the event as a “family-friendly drag show.” Perhaps almost as disturbing as the drag show itself was the local news coverage of it. However the outlet also reported that “contrary to part of this statement,” the Dallas Police Department claimed to have sent officers to “assist in crowd control.” Video by /jhqxtc28uSĪccording to a statement from a group that had been protesting the event, police “were able to come in and remove all of the children and their families from inside of the bar,” according to WFAA. WARNING: The following video contains vulgar language that some viewers may find offensive.įar-left protesters follow & physically confront a black man who protested a drag show for children at a gay bar in Dallas, Texas. Various masked far-left activists harassed and assaulted protesters standing outside the bar. Children & transvestites danced in front of an electronic sign that read, “It’s not gonna lick itself.” /tcgiqhqCbH
The drag event for children at a gay bar in Dallas, Texas was called “Drag the Kids to Pride.” It was held at the Mr. According to journalist Andy Ngô, during the event “children & transvestites danced in front of an electronic sign that read, ‘It’s not gonna lick itself.'”