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Gay Oklahoma City

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If you’re looking to see an honest-to-goodness cowboy, leader to Oklahoma City. Here you’ll find that the ten-gallon hat has never gone out of design. It’s Oklahoma’s largest metropolis, so it attracts rough-and-ready types from hundreds of miles around. Look for the men in two downtown neighborhoods, the NW 39th Entertainment District and the Bricktown Historic Amusement District.

There are plenty of events throughout the year, but the most popular is Oklahoma Town Gay Pride, which includes a pet parade, an excursion to the Oklahoma City Zoo, and a block party - the last week of June each year.

Seven professional arts organizations call the Civic Center Music Hall home: The Canterbury Choral Society; Celebrity Attractions with national touring Broadway shows; Lyric Theatre and Academy with year-round professional musical theatre; The Oklahoma Capital Ballet , one of the finest regional ballet companies in America; Oklahoma Urban area Philharmonic performing classics, pops and family concerts with acclaimed guest soloists; The Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre Company with a variety of comedies, dra

The Boom, located at 2218 NW 39th St. in OKC opened in May of 2009 with a smoking bar and smoke-free stage room. As their seven-year anniversary approached, owners John Gibbons and Brett Young made the verdict to go completely smoke-free starting April 11. Before opening the weekend of the change, staff did some Spring cleaning: repainting the walls, wiping down all surfaces, removing their cigarette machine, and hiring an HVAC company to make sure they were up to par.

Gibbons says that he has faced very little negative pushback from the change: “This was much easier than I thought it would be. Even my serious smoking customers haven’t really complained, and I’m seeing new faces who reveal me they are coming in because we are smoke-free now. We are less than a month into this transition, but already know there’s no way it can be anything but good.”

“We’ve had an incredibly positive reaction to this campaign from Oklahomans,” said Kathleen Thomas, Free The Night campaign manager. “There really is overwhelming demand for smoke-free bars and clubs. We are proud to possess The Boom come on board and encourage any bar owners thinking about this decision to arrive out to us for help.

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Oklahoma City’s Northwest 39th Street has been a local LGBTQ hotspot since the 1980s.

Some residents fondly call the area “The Strip” or “The Gayborhood.” The district features a handful of gay bars and nightclubs, with regular drag shows and RuPaul’s Drag Race watch parties. It also hosts the city’s annual Pride festival.

“There’s gonna be everybody from every walk of life,” said Lauren Zuniga, president of the Oklahoma City Self-acceptance Alliance.

But 39th Lane wasn’t always an LGBT gathering place.

“Known Spots”

Oklahoma Urban area hosted traveling female impersonation shows as early as 1908, when a Lyric Theater performance by Lou Bates was advertised in the newspaper. Female impersonator Julian Eltinge performed at the Overholser Opera Residence about a decade later. Clubs like The Garden o