But there really was no community in the sense of a bunch of gay people getting together to do any kind of self-realization or build organizations or anything like that.
There was 1610 down on Charleston and The Confederacy, opened in 1976. There was Maxine's, way out on Nellis and Charleston, which opened in the early 1950s. McBride: There were a few gay bars in the very early 1970s. What existed at the time you realized you were gay? DC: The earliest recollections would be yours, Dennis.
