Gay Nightlife Knoxville: Bars, Clubs, & More

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• GAY NIGHTLIFE KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE: BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• KNOXVILLE GAY BARS AND HOTELS
• THE BEST KNOXVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS KNOXVILLE

GAY NIGHTLIFE KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE: BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

Apart om a uple of gay-oriented spac, many bars the area are que mixed and blatantly show their support for the LGBTQ+ muny. The cy has bee a haven for gay rints and tourists throughout the regn. For a cy far smaller than Memphis, 's a b surprisg that Knoxville has nearly the same number of gay bars.

The Edge: One of the longt-nng and largt gay clubs, The Edge is well outsi the cy center—about 7 wt of town off I-40 along a by road led wh strip malls—but 's very much the top gay venue town. Held mid-June, 's a full-day event begng wh the morng para through the heart of downtown along the serendipoly named Gay Street. Gay bars and clubs KnoxvilleClub XYZ5Audience RatgBased on 1 votClub XYZ is a gay bar and club Knoxville, TN.

5Audience RatgBased on 1 votLast updated on: 8 Aug 2023Last updated on: 8-Aug-2023The Edge5Audience RatgBased on 1 votThe Edge is a gay bar Knoxville. Don't like noisy bars but if there's good live mic we'd nsir Stay downtown and walk the shops along Gay St. Good hotel choic would be The Oliver, The Embassy Su on Gay St., or the Hampton Inn & Su on Gay St.

KNOXVILLE GAY BARS AND HOTELS

If you walk up to someone Knoxville and ask where the neart gay bar is they may only be able to name one or two different optns. Sassy Ann’s Hoe of Blu is also another Knoxville stutn that has not necsarily brand self as a “Gay Bar”, but has more recent years garnered a rather loyal group of LGBT patrons. The plac are a part of a very large llectn of Gay and Lbian Bars to have existed Knoxville over the last half century.

The history of Knoxville Gay bars is fadg and will be plete as is wrten today. I have gathered rmatn om the posters, om terviews wh LGBT cizens and siftg through s of Metro Pulse & small prt gay media articl, an attempt to create a hive anthology of Knoxville Gay bars.

THE BEST KNOXVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS KNOXVILLE

The Hiaway – Acrdg to one source, The Hiaway was first loted off an alley on Gay Street near the prent-day ATT Buildg.

The bar operated the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, eventually movg to a buildg on the 200 Block of Gay Street where was torn down durg the expansn of Summt Hill Drive. It is unclear whether this was an exclively LGBT bar or if was one of a handful of bars throughout the cy that were open md and iendly to the lol gay muny. For the Knoxville gay muny, the Back Office was one of first large sle gay nightclubs for dancg and socializg.

After The Back Office was molished for the Cy-County Buildg, Colony beme one of the more popular gay bars Knoxville for a number of years.