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Gay bars in dallas fort worth area2/8/2024 The July 12 demonstration was one in a series of protests following the police raid on the Rainbow Lounge in which six Fort Worth officers and two Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents hauled 20 people from the bar and arrested six of them for public intoxication one was treated in intensive care with a severe head injury, the result of police tactics that gay rights activists would label brutality. ![]() A polite noise perhaps, and not too loud. Thanks to the now infamous June 28 raid on a gay bar south of downtown-on the anniversary of the birth of the gay rights movement, no less-Fort Worth's gays seemed ready to make some noise. But, then, this time they had plenty to get militant about. It was an odd sight for Cowtown's gay community, normally not a militant bunch. But on a recent Sunday, any panther looking to catch a catnap would have had a tough time as a stream of 300 gay and lesbian protesters marched down the middle of an otherwise quiet Main Street en route to City Hall. ![]() Even today, this carefully rebuilt and shiny place always seems to be waiting for more people to come and wake up to its wonders. ![]() Fort Worth's drowsiness more than a century ago led to an urban myth of sorts that a panther had wandered up from the Trinity River bottoms and was spotted sleeping on a downtown street.
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