Dallas's LGBTQ community was among the first in Texas to organize politically and socially despite the city's reputation as one of the state's more conservative cities. In 1947, Dallas became home to one of the first gay bars in Texas, Club Reno, and in 1972 it hosted the first Gay Pride Parade in Texas. In 1980, the Pride Parade moved from downtown to Cedar Springs Road. Since the early 1970s, the area around the intersection of Throckmorton Street and Cedar Springs Road has been considered the center of Dallas's LGBTQ community and has been known as The Gay Crossroads or The Crossroads. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the area attracted the city's counterculture movements, and gays and lesbians moved there, drawn by its Bohemian image and picturesque architecture. More gay-owned businesses and bars followed, and by the end of the 1970s most businesses in the area catered to the LGBTQ community. During the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, The Crossroads became not only an entertainment district but also a center for political activism, social services, and medical testing. As the historic heart of Dallas's LGBTQ community, it remains home to the city's oldest gay businesses and the primary gathering point for LGBTQ political and social events, including the Alan Ross Freedom Parade, while continuing to symbolize social, economic, and political action among the LGBTQ community.