Bars such as Tacky’s and the Everglades provided popular social meeting places. Organizations like the Metropolitan Community Church provided one of the earliest gathering places where lesbians and gay men could come together and worship.
Riverside and Sailboat Bend, with its Key West ambiance, were the first neighborhoods with sizable concentrations of lesbians and gay men. Although the LGBT community has been a part of the Fort Lauderdale even before it became a place on the map, it was only in the 1970s that it emerged as a visible community.
