We know it as the gayborhood, or what's left of it - the Resource Center, JR's, Sue Ellen's, Station 4 and the Round-Up Saloon.

He reached out to Doty and Robert Emery and Sam Childers of the Dallas Way, keepers of this city's LGBT history, who penned the necessary narrative, submitted the paperwork and raised the money for the marker.įor most of us, I imagine, this city's LGBT history begins and ends in Oak Lawn, along Cedar Springs, where people march in parades and in protests.

But in 2016 Dwayne Jones, a former Preservation Dallas executive director now in Galveston, thought it time to tell the 'undertold story' of Dallas' LGBT community.