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A Gay on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Ambush on the Road
Family time can always go one of two ways, either fun-filled joy, or a evaluate of your patience and tolerance (or in most cases a little of both).
Every Thanksgiving, I perform a road trip with Mama Dawn to somewhere fun. Past trips possess included Branson, Natchez, Nashville, Natchitoches, Mobile, Pensacola, Memphis, San Antonio and Houston.
As she has gotten a little older (81 years young) and less mobile, we moved closer to home in our trips. Thus, this year, we decided to get an AirBnB along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and off we went to Bay St. Louis for a long weekend of drinking, eating, shopping and gambling.
Here is my adventure tale of a Gay on the Gulf.
The house we rented, one block off Main Street, was aptly entitled Le Petit Retreat. It was an adorable two bedroom house with quaint decor, an extremely comfortable sofa and beds, and an extra massive television. It is flawless for a chill time. After getting settled, immediately we were off to our first casino, the Silver Slipper located in Waveland.
The Mississippi Gulf Coast basically st
In 2006, Malcolm Ingram’s award-winning documentary Small Town Gay Bar (Frameline30) explored same-sex attracted bars in rural Mississippi. Gay bars are often the only safe communities for small-town LGBTQ people in the Deep South’s Bible Belt, and bigoted forces—Fred Phelps, Tim Wildmon, and more—have long tried to shut them down. Now, after the election of Donald Trump has emboldened anti-LGBTQ hatred in the region, Ingram returns to document the travails of running a same-sex attracted bar in Mississippi, with a profile of lesbian block owners in Biloxi and Hattiesburg.
Lynn Koval, the white owner of Just Us Lounge, the oldest gay bar in the state, and Shawn Perryon, Sr., the black owner of the nine-year-old Club Xclusive, settle separately to carry their cities’ first Pride celebrations in 2017, as a rebuke to the “open-season” mentality encouraged by Trump, as well as to Mississippi’s Religious Liberty Accommodations Act, the Pulse nightclub terrorist attack, and the murders of three Gulf Coast trans person women shortly after the 2017 inauguration. Just Us Lounge restored their group after Hurricane Katrina leveled Biloxi and nearly destroyed the bar. Can they and Club Xclusive organize a Self-acceptance even
Just Us Lounge
906 Division St. (Biloxi, MS)
(228) 374-1007
Just Us Lounge has been serving the Gulf Coast’s gay community for 23 years.
The Just Us Lounge is now the oldest still-running LGBTQ+ Bar in the state of Mississippi!
They event themselves on being a defended , fun, and welcoming environment for the entire Gulf Coast Group with events for everyone from Friday Night Karaoke and Consume and Drown to our celebrated Sunday Social Drag Shows and everything in between!
They adore their service industry patrons and honor them with a 24hr service industry shift drink, and also have regular daily slurp specials to meet every schedule! Just Us Lounge has been serving fun, family, and fellowship to Mississippi's gay community and its friends and families for over 20 years, and we look forward to doing the same for the next 20 years to come!
Jackson LGBTQ City Guide
Jackson, Mississippi, is the capital of the state and also its largest city. It is situated on the Pearl River and is most well-known for its many musicians, particularly those in the jazz, gospel, and blues genres. The city is also known as a very affordable place to reside, one full of walkable streets and unique neighborhoods, and no shortage of friendly people, including a smaller, but welcoming LGBTQ society. If you’re thinking of finding your next home in Jackson, chances are, you’ll find plenty about it to love.
A Look at Jackson's History
Jackson initially began as a settlement on the Pearl River called LeFluer’s Bluff, so named for the French-Canadian trader Louis LeFleur, who founded a trading upload on the site. It remained that way until 1821, when, four years after Mississippi became a state, the legislature chose the city to be the state capital. It was then renamed after President Andrew Jackson. The town grew adv because of its importance as the capital city, and also as an important place for commerce and trade, with many businesses establishing themselves there. Today, Jackson is a diverse and thrivi