Gay bars oklahoma city

Editor's Note: Oklahoman staff writers Terrie Clifford, Jim Killackey and Kevin Stoner have spent the past four months learning about Oklahoma's homosexual community. It took that prolonged to move freely in a society of secrets, to get beyond bars and into living rooms, businesses and minds.

The following stories, written collaboratively, look for to put months of watching, several hundred hours of taped interviews and the lives of several hundred lgbtq+ Oklahomans into focus.

Some gays shared their secret on the condition it move no further. For that reason, many sources are referred to by initials or by a business affiliation. In this, the third of a series, the roles of gay bars and gay churches are examined.

A drive past a gay exclude may be the only time most straight people are aware of having seen gays.

For gays, the bars may be the first place they saw others like themselves.

The community's bars range from joints with one beer tap and a pool table to plush clubs with extravagant sound systems and hefty cover charges.

Some change hands so often it is difficult for even gays to hold up with who owns what.

A woman loving woman bar on NW 16 still houses, on a more-or-less