There are four gay bars within one block of each other and the LGBT Center, and there are a lot of gay-owned restaurants and bars as you go into Oregon.” “We jokingly call that part of downtown Dayton ‘the Fruit Loop,’” Randy Phillips, the president of the Greater Dayton LGBT Center’s board of directors, tells Out. Right in the middle of Dayton, Ohio’s nightlife district, known to locals as Oregon, lies the heart of the city’s LGBTQ+ community.
