Oral History with Ed Bailey (LCCA)

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Ed Bailey, who grew up in DC, moved to an apartment in Logan Circle in 1994 and bought a home in the neighborhood in 1997 where he has lived ever since. He reminisced about the changes since 1994. Ed wouldn’t frequent the Circle, which seemed unsafe to him at that time. Friends wouldn’t visit him in the 1990’s; there were no amenities. But there was a migration of the gay identity from Dupont Circle, new stores and restaurants and, in 2002, the opening of the gay bar Halo. “…I mean, it's been a very rewarding place to be. I lived for a number of years on Capitol Hill and felt the same kind of sense of community. It felt not as forward thinking. It felt just kind of like comfortable place to be, but kind of an established, comfortable. "This is what we are, and we don't intend to be anything other than this." Logan Circle, it feels like it's willing to kind of grow and expand with the world, and as kind of modernized, and become this, and new. That seems to fit me better, so.”

Lynne Brown

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