Gay, Oklahoma

Gay is an unincorporated community in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States.^[1]

Gay, Oklahoma
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 33°57′12″N 95°37′17″W
Country	United States
State	Oklahoma
County	Choctaw
Elevation [1]	443 ft (135 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID	1093152[1]

History

A post office was established at Lenton, Indian Territory on October 22, 1901. Its name changed to Gay, Oklahoma on April 28, 1908. The post office closed on December 31, 1932.^[2]

The community is said to have been named after the town of Gay, Georgia.^[3]

At the time it was founded, Lenton, later Gay, was located in Kiamitia County, a part of the Apukshunnubbee District of the Choctaw Nation.^[4]

Notable person

• Pauline Short Robinson (1915–1997), first African-American librarian in Denver, Colorado