Welcome to Queerstorical Houston !
This page was started to help me in my personal research regarding the LGBT Community of Houston, TX.
The only published work to cover the Houston community at all is James T. Sears book Rebels, Rubyfruit and Rhinestones.
I have been using this book as a sort of jumping off point for what needs to be done. To help put things in perspective, I have been developing a timeline of events.
There are two large facets to my personal research.
The Bars
have played an important part in every gayborhood by serving as a meeting place and community focal point.
I am using mapbuilder.net to map the locations of all the
old bars in Houston as well as other places of interest
to the LGBT community of our town. I hope to eventually migrate this information to the Houston ARCH page
where they are planning on developing message boards
to allow anyone to comment and upload pictures.
The Publications
The newsletters, periodicals, and "bar rags" that have circulated
throughout Houston at different times are an integral source of
information. I hope to see the start of a project to index the earliest publications which would make the history of our community more accesible. Click here to see my list as it stands right now.
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