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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
That said, I don't think my brother or any of my gay friends have too hard of a time of it here in Houston. People are always shocked about that, and I don't think that 20, 30 years ago that would have been the case outside of Montrose.
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Dallas has a thriving gay community too. And I loved hanging out in Oak Lawn. However the overall integration into the rest of the community was not so good.
I always thought that the reason that Dallas had a strong gay community (in certain areas) was because of the level of bigotry gay people faced not just in Dallas, but in the region. I think that gay kids growing up in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma flocked to Dallas and Houston and built up their gay communities because it was so harsh for them where they came from.
