A little history about how Fort Lauderdale got to be so gay! The Marlin Beach Hotel and the beach across the street ("where the boys are") had a lot to do with creating what we love today:

"In Fort Lauderdale, concern was raised that the “homosexuals being driven out of Miami” would be coming to Fort Lauderdale. A number of people called the police to report having seen homosexuals on the beach. As the Fort Lauderdale News reported, however, local police found “No Invasion Here by Homosexuals.”[5] “We have nothing like that in Broward County,” the county sheriff  said. “For that reason we don’t attract homosexuals as permanent residents. They all go to Miami to be with their friends."[6] Nevertheless the police stepped up surveillance and a few weeks later the newspaper noted on the front page the arrest of a thirt-six-year-old out of town man (from Lake Worth) for disorderly conduct in downtown Fort Lauderdale. He came to Fort Lauderdale “hoping to find someone with homosexual tendencies.”[7] Yet no major campaign against homosexuals followed.

               Indeed throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, the emerging gay and lesbian presence in Fort Lauderdale was generally ignored by the larger heterosexual community. In spite of the unfriendly police atmosphere and stigmatized public image, the Fort Lauderdale homosexual community developed and grew. The 1965 International Guild Guide[8], the gay travel directory, listed four gay bars in Fort Lauderdale. The new residents settled in neighborhoods like Sailboat Bend and Riverside Park, areas noted for their Key West ambiance and run down housing, where they began to remodel and renovate."

 

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