I assume the majority are Mexican.
I used to live down there, in the Tannery lofts back in '96.
Perhaps the gay strip club got no resistance because it went in before Walkers Point got enough gentrification for anybody to care.
Or it still fits with the racial theme I'm sensing, since blacks (on average) tend to be less accepting, and open about homosexuality, the whole "down low" thing and all.
Although a favorite pastime of my buddies and I when we lived down there was to ditch friends who were unfamiliar with the area at the various gay bars down there. Our favorite was "The Ball Game (come play with us)"actually over in the Third Ward just a block or two north. We'd try to convince them it was a sports bar.