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Fort Wayne is located in Allen County. It sits at the crossroads of three rivers so it was a city of strategic importance. The city is named after General Anthony Wayne who first established the fort.

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Fort Wayne is no longer a settler hub fought over by cowboys and Indians. It's considered to be a highly liveable city. Be sure to visit the Old Fort when you're in town.



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Legendary choreographer and “unsung gay hero” Charles Allen sat with a tape recorder in his Fort Wayne house, a veritable art museum awaiting curation. Sipping gin and orange juice from an empty peanut butter jar, he began to document his life. Notorious for self-mythologizing—once claiming to have killed a man using “voodoo and black magic”—some of the anecdotes he fed the tape no disbelief were embellished.[1] These would prove unnecessary, however, as his legacy speaks for itself. Not only did Allen grant “birth to generations of dancers and . . . change the way people looked at the world around him,” but he inspired and empowered LGBTQ+ Hoosiers, perhaps unintentionally. Upon Allen’s 1980 death, Jerry Jokay wrote in TROIS, Fort Wayne’s gay newsletter, that “Although he probably wouldn’t have seen it this way, one of his greatest contributions was that he was a gay hero. And he is a gay hero simply because his gayness was a trivial issue in his life even in spite of the oppression it caused him.”[2] Allen, on the other hand, would probably consider his greatest contributions to be advancing performing arts