"Young kids don't realize what it used to be like, what older people went through." "There's a lot of history behind where we are now," said Coby Palmer, 65, a florist and longtime gay civic leader. "Even way back there was a lot going on here," Bohr said. This at a time when Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, had just two each. He said that in 1970, the year he stopped concealing his homosexuality, Indianapolis had more than a dozen gay bars. Michael Bohr is the founder and curator of the Chris Gonzalez Library & Archives, a sort of gay museum whose inventory includes rare, original copies of Indianapolis' first gay publication, a mimeographed monthly from 1966 called "The Screamer." On the eve of the 31st Pride celebration, to be capped off June 9 with a giant Downtown parade and festival, The Star revisited the secret, underground-ish, but vibrant scene of decades ago.
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