There s nothing downtown. I turn 21 in a few days, so I m really looking forward to hitting the bar scene. I think we have like 5 gay bars now. Most of us, when we re not hanging out around Oasis, we ll run up to Seattle. On a given Friday night we ll regularly have 40 or 50 kids here.
Oasis is the only real long-standing gay and lesbian thing in Tacoma.
There are some adult organizations but they re much smaller and when they have struggles they come to us. Yea, a few of them. We do outreach to the schools, actually. It was a lot of fun. We ve gone to many local high schools and given counselors what they need in terms of information for their kids, also getting them to add sexual orientation discrimination to their bylaws.