Reply #62: Mary's in the Montrose section of Houston in 1978

[Samurai_Writer]

I was 17, 7 months pregnant, and living at an unwed mother's home. Which happened to be situated in Montrose, the gay section of Houston. Don't ask me WHY they put 40 pregnant girls in Montrose in the 1970s. I guess they thought we'd be 'safer' there. LOL

So we could only go out in sets of two or more from the home, which was literally two blocks from Mary's, which was and still is a gay leather biker bar. We had no idea what it was, but it was hot out and we went in for a soda (strictly forbidden at the home! We used to walk to the hot dog stand, too, and fill up on fries and hot dogs with saurkraut).

Well, that was an eye-opening experience (the gay leather biker bar, not the hotdogs). Those guys were really nice to us, and we started to hang out there as much as we could (we were only allowed out for 2 hours a day). Some of them even sent me cards and flowers when I had my son, and were the only ones I could talk to after I placed him for adoption.

No wonder I'm such a 'fag hag' now.