I hope to continue to add to this material in the future. Each person I interviewed provided a small bit more detail than the person before on either a person or a bar. The history of Knoxville Gay bars is fading and will be incomplete as it is written today. These places are a part of a very large collection of Gay and Lesbian Bars to have existed in Knoxville over the last half century. Sassy Ann’s House of Blues is also another Knoxville institution that has not necessarily branded itself as a “Gay Bar”, but has in more recent years garnered a rather loyal group of LGBT patrons. Today, in Knoxville, if you want to go to an establishment that caters exclusively to the LGBT community and allies then you are likely going to be visiting either Club XYZ or Edge Knoxville. If you walk up to someone in Knoxville and ask where the nearest gay bar is they may only be able to name one or two different options. (This is a second in a series of articles about Pride and Knoxville’s LGBTQ communities by guest writer Oren Yarbrough)
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