For decades it has been a place where men and women gather to celebrate when the news is good and come for help when things get bad.Ĭedar Springs at Throckmorton Street, where JR's sits, has always been especially important. The intersection had been known as The Crossroads since the late 1960s, but its legacy was forever cemented in 1980 with the opening of the namesake market there that became the community's bookstore and meeting place. 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.