Gay scene salt lake city

With this map I've located the businesses and public spaces that catered to the gay collective in Salt Lake City during the s, the decade when the Gay Rights movement began to make inroads nationally and locally. Of course, Salt Lake has always had a lgbtq+ community; there have always been human beings in Utah who formed intimate relationships with members of the same sex in their righteous longing for affectionate , companionship, and happiness. Unlike other larger port cities, Salt Lake has long been isolated, which resulted in a different progress pattern; indeed, the settlers who arrived in the 19th century considered isolation a virtue. Yet the central location of Utah and Salt Lake led to the region eventually becoming recognizable as "the Crossroads of the West" implying movement and migration of many people from various backgrounds and life experience into the state. Undoubtedly, many of the men and women who arrived in the 19th and 20th century had same-sex partners and same-sex erotic experiences. The history of sexuality, the American West, and the rise of the Gay Rights Movement is what I