Gay-bar owners build a community near site of infamous police raid.
A cluster of gay bars in Fort Worth, nicknamed “ The District ,” is the foundation of a new gayborhood in Texas’ reddest city.
The area encompasses Club Reflection, which has been at 604 S. Jennings Ave. for 14 years. Catty-corner to the club is the Liberty Lounge, which owner Jenna Hill-Higgs describes as a “neighborhood dive bar.” Jackie O’s, a craft cocktail bar that opened last July across the street from Club Reflection at 609 S. Jennings Ave., sits next to the upcoming Diablo Cantina, which will be a Latin club for the LGBTQ+ community in Fort Worth.
“ has had it tough. I was there when I had to lift my boyfriend up over the fence and say, run like hell and threw the backpack of our tills and stuff because I thought we were being robbed,” Schrock said. “He made it halfway to Oklahoma City before I was able to say, hold on, it’s the police, we’re not getting robbed.”So how does one start a gayborhood in the famously red Fort Worth?
“I don’t want anybody to feel like they’re alone or there’s not a community to take care of them,” Hill-Higgs says.
The District Rainbow Lounge Club Reflection
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