Gay clubs 1940s

Creator Toni Broaddus with the Gayly Oklahoman.

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Source Gayly Gay. Publisher Gayly Oklahoman. Date June Contributor Gayly Oklahoman. Bootleg whiskey was available, of course; M. Back in those days, not everybody had didn't have cars. The St. Moritz was located in 1940s center of the block where Cathey's Furniture is today, and according to M. For the most part, member of the oppostie sex.

You didn't go in there dressed in cutoffs. Women didn't even wear slacks in those days. Moritz, where the jukebox played the big band sounds of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. Dancing, however, was not allowed: Oklahoma law prohibited dancing gay beer was served. We crawled in and out of those windows because it was so crowded we couldn't get through the front door!

Even in the early 40s, Tulsa had at least one gay bar. Called the Tropical Gardens, it was run by two sisters in what had once been a filling station. Copyrighted inthe book was written by writer and publisher Lucius Beebe, who visited Oklahoma many times to see his lover, who had been drafted and stationed here.

Beebe writes: "Tulsa was not without its charms. One day he went into Friend's - not knowing it was a gay bar. Cops seemed to show up at the gay bars whenever they were bored, theycan't push us around like this. He went down and represented himself all ' the club and he usually won. Inarrests we:re made in Mohawk Park for "soliciting to 1940s an unnatural sex club, outraging public decency, and sodomy.

In the early 70s, a series of hostile editorials appeared in the Tulsa World. He wrote a letter to the editor, a rebuttal which stated facts but never mentioned his own homosexuality. When he. Operated by two sisters in what had once been a tilling station. Was the place to go.