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When a Same-sex attracted Bar in Richmond was an Introduction to a People
Bill Harrison is the executive director of Diversity Richmond, which serves Main Virginia's LGBTQ communities. Harrison grew up in the petty farming community of Emporia, Virginia and moved to Richmond as an mature person. This week he led a vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting, and here he shares about the significance of gay bars in Richmond.
“I’ve lived in Richmond since the mids, and actually my initial introduction to the same-sex attracted community was through a gay block. I was in college, and I had become friends with a guy who was a good friend, and a few months into the friendship he came out to me. I, at that moment, did not even know what the word ‘gay’ meant. I knew that I was queer, but I did not think that you actually did anything about it. I thought you would just insert it in the back of your mind and unite a woman.
“And so when Jack came out to me, he told me about a same-sex attracted bar in Richmond, the Dial Tone. And he said ‘I know a couple hundred same-sex attracted men,’ and I thought to myself, ‘he’s really a liar, because there’
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