Category: Places Dates: 1991-2001 Address: 703 Berry Road, Nashville, TN The Gay and Lesbian Community Center, also known as The Center, opened in February 1991. It was a space for those young and old to gather for a variety of events, support groups, and general… Read More »Gay & Lesbian Community Center
Category: Places Dates: 1980s-1990s Address: 167 1/2 8th Avenue North, Nashville, TN The Gas Lite Lounge, also seen listed as The Gaslight, was part of one Nashville’s most historic properties. Built in the 1840s, the building is the only original grand townhouse remaining in the… Read More »The Gas Lite
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Category: Places Dates: 1980s Address: 2311 Franklin Road Also known as Bob’s Crazy Cowboy II, it was owned by Bob L. Simrell and operated for a time by his daughter Marjorie Jean Simrell. Advertisements for Crazy Cowboy II appeared as early as 1988 in Dare.… Read More »Crazy Cowboy II
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Category: Places Dates: 1970s Address: 1504 Compton Avenue, Nashville, TN Compton House was an early LGBTQ+ community center, if not the first. Located a few blocks from Belmont University, the property was known as the Gay Community Services Center, which was open seven days a… Read More »Compton House
Category: Places Dates: 1990s? Address: 701 4th Avenue South, Nashville, TN We need more information about this place. Use the comment box below to submit your knowledge!
Category: Places Dates: 1980-2001 Address: 407 1st Avenue South First opening in 1980, Chez Colette was operated by Colette Gibbs, a French immigrant from Bordeaux. Gibbs got her start in Nashville tending bar at the Black Poodle on Printer’s Alley in the 1960s. Gibbs’ establishment… Read More »Chez Collette
Category: Place Dates: Feb. 1975-1990s Address: 1711 Hayes St., Nashville, TN Sources: Tennessean, May 4, 1975 Page last updated: 11/6/21 by SEC
Category: Places Dates: 1990s-1997 Address: 301 S. 2nd Street, Nashville, TN Boots was a gay men’s leather bar. It often advertised in Xenogeny News with the tagline, “A Man’s Bar.” It was razed in 1997 for the construction of Nissan Stadium. We need more information… Read More »Boots
