Gay club odessa

Writer and photographer Randy R. Potts takes a journey into West Texas to visit the gay bars of one of the most conservative regions in America. I took a trip to West Texas for the first time chasing a ghost: whatever traces that could be found of the original Midnight Cowboy. After seeing the film and then reading the book, I became obsessed with the landscape, the people, the timeless quality I expected West Texas to have.

On a Friday evening in late November, the sun was in my eyes and my windshield was covered with the splattered bugs from a five-hour drive from Dallas. In that lunar landscape of the reddest state in the union, I found myself in something unexpected: a traffic jam on I between Midland and Odessa. The sky looked as if it was filled with flames, club the sun setting ahead of odessa and the miles and miles of fiery refineries that hug the highway.

As far as my eye could see, the landscape was a mess of smoke, flickering brake lights, trucks and odessa covered in dust. When I drove west looking for Midnight Cowboy I realized: even in Big Spring, where the film took place, population about 30, gentrification and urban renewal had prettied up the original locations until the buildings probably look newer today than they did the day they were built.

Everything was pitch black. I remember he was on the phone, he was crying to his Dad, and he was telling his dad that he had killed me and the club. I never filed charges on him. The one who filed charges on him was his dad. When the cops showed up, they did arrest him and his dad filed charges.

They found the baby, Stephanie, she was on the opposite side of the bed, where the bassinet was flipped over her, protecting her. I see people for who they are, not for what they are. I go to the heart. I went through a lot of hardship. I can understand when someone just needs someone to listen.

You know the feeling when you love somebody. Performing on stage at that moment was Showtyme, whom gay came out to support. Originally of Shawnee, Oklahoma, "Uncle M. Sometimes he would bail them out of jail or visit them in the hospital. Even take them home after the show, depending.

I could see why, at gay age, he still gets around.

Gay Guide Odessa

He told me that he was following in the footsteps of David Wilkerson, a street preacher best known for his book The Cross and the Switchblade. His church on the south side of the train tracks is surrounded by empty lots, tumbleweeds, pawnshops, liquor stores, and a cemetery.

Sanchez BuzzFeed Staff. Potts BuzzFeed Contributor.