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The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:. Management needed only to have a chat with their door persons to inform them of what "type" of people to require the extra proof of gay. Generally, according to anonymous letters to the editors of gay newspapers and overheard instructions from employers to their employees, the additional demands were made of women, blacks, and Hispanics.

Lest the practices seem too sexist and racist, the bar owners also frowned upon white male customers who appeared too feminine. Gay bar owners did not limit their anti-lesbian policies to just customers at their establishments. Kathy Jack, proprietor of Jack's Backyard in Oak Cliff and for the first dallas years of its existence the manager of Sue Ellen's in Dallas, has worked in gay bars since the early s.

She managed a lesbian bar called The Unicorn, very successfully for four years. Yet, when the Unicorn closed and she needed a job, she encountered difficulties because she was female. Finally, the general manager took a chance and hired her as a door person for the Old Plantation. Two months later, she was a manager there.

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