![]() Transgender Roanokers also became increasingly visible in the 1970s. Both organizations advocated against the harassment of gay men by bar owners and by the police department. They were followed in 1977 by the Free Alliance for Individual Rights (FAIR). The first gay liberation organization in the city, the Gay Alliance of the Roanoke Valley (GARV), was founded in 1971. A visible community formed here in the 1960s, anchored by the region’s first known gay bar, the Trade Winds, which opened on Franklin Road in 1953, and at Elmwood Park which by the 1960s had become a well-known gay cruising locale.Newspaper reports and police records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reveal a history of Roanokers who engaged in non-normative gender presentations and sexual activities. ![]() ![]() LGBTQ+ people have been part of our community ever since Roanoke’s founding in the 1880s. Roanoke is a welcoming and compassionate city that embraces the diversity of our residents.
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