'Gay Bar' Tracks The Wave Of A Whole Culture — And One Life : NPR

Contents:

• NEW GAY BAR G TO FORMER FORMER COMMODORE (VERANDA) SPACE LOGAN TO BE LLED THE LTLE GAY PUB
• TY PONY IS THE GAYT BAR YUC VALLEY
• THE LTLE GAY PUB - 03-08-2023 - ORR
• 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
• LTLE JIM’S, THE FIRST GAY BAR IN BOYSTOWN, CLOSG FOR GOOD
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• HOWARD BROWN TO BUY PNEERG GAY BAR LTLE JIM’S FOR A MAJOR EXPANSN IN LAKEVIEW
• MOSW GAY BARS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

NEW GAY BAR G TO FORMER FORMER COMMODORE (VERANDA) SPACE LOGAN TO BE LLED THE LTLE GAY PUB

“We’ve been throwg events now for que a few years, and the District, after the closure of really every gay nightclub — both before COVID and then durg COVID — has really been lackg a te dance floor, ” says Zach Renovát, one of the Bunker -owners.

TY PONY IS THE GAYT BAR YUC VALLEY

The other new addn, The Ltle Gay Pub, is the brachild of three longtime rtrant and bar dtry fixtur — Do Sevilla, Dty Martez, and Ben Ganr. The -owners, who have a bed experience of 37 years the bar and rtrant dtry, have a shared visn of The Ltle Gay Pub as a “gift” to the muny, providg an LGBTQ space for people the Logan Circle/Shaw neighborhood where one currently do not exist, and where there’s a arth of drkg or eatg tablishments that n rival those near the Walter E. “It looks like an old hotel vibe, a very W Anrson-y take on quirk, where pomp and circumstance have been shelved and taken over by three quirky gays who cid to overrate to s next eratn.

The Ltle Gay Pub has a kchen that the owners plan to utilize, begng wh about a dozen food ems that one uld classify as “elevated pub food, ” meang more than your typil ied pub fare. While the liquor license and fal settlement agreements are still beg procsed, the tr behd The Ltle Gay Pub note that their spotls rerds, as far as ABRA vlatns, and their longstandg reputatns appear to have aid them openg whout much phback om the cy, scribg the procs of applyg for var licens and perms as “drama-ee. The Ltle Gay Pub is aimg for a soft openg around March 1, pendg on how quickly a liquor license n be obtaed.

THE LTLE GAY PUB - 03-08-2023 - ORR

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That’s how Ganr and -owners Do Sevilla and Dty Martez me up wh the name for The Ltle Gay Pub — on track to open this March Logan Circle.

'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE

This new neighborhood jnt ss unr an apartment buildg at 11th and P Streets NW and fills a void Northwt D.C.’s gay scene. Addnally, The Ltle Gay Pub will be ls foced on clubbg and more as a muny gatherg spot, even late at night.

Sevilla says they chose to work together on openg The Ltle Gay Pub together bee they “would have hired each other.”.

LTLE JIM’S, THE FIRST GAY BAR IN BOYSTOWN, CLOSG FOR GOOD

When asked about how he feels about The Ltle Gay Pub nearg the fish le, Sevilla says they’re “very grateful” for all the support. ’s newt LGBTQ+ venue March, the tr sought to create a space clive of the diverse people who make up the, about two months after The Ltle Gay Pub opened s doors, the tablishment has quickly bee a popular statn for lols and the great lotn, iendly staff, great atmosphere, and fortg ambiance, many who e to LGP go straight to the bathroom for a selfie. It’s bee so much of a thg that the acunt Royal_Fih_LGP on Instagram is dited to pturg and documentg the gogs on the pub’s ltle gay bathrooms.

Runng low on money, the team ially nsired overhead lightg, Sevilla explas, but me to md that “oh no girl, the gays need lights their face, ” so the flatterg illumatn beme one more vtment to the pub’s atmosphere. The Ty Pony Tavern don’t ll self a gay bar, but is the gayt bar California’s Yuc Valley. Why, as an almost-50-year-old gay man, did I choose to move out the middle of fuckg nowhere?

Gay Bar b memoir, history and cricism; 's a difficult book to p down, but that's what mak so readable and so endlsly fascatg. Atherton L's book starts off a crowd room a gay bar where he's gone cisg wh his partner, whom he refers to throughout the book wh the Leonard Cohen-spired nickname Famo Blue Raat.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

That kd of gay bar — all kds of gay bars, really — are danger of closg, Atherton L wr, due to the populary of datg apps and risg property sts. He's ambivalent about the velopment, wrg, "I had to nsir whether gay bars promised a sense of belongg then lured to a trap.

In a gay bar, am I penned to mory stat, swallowg drks that nourish my opprsn — have gay bars kept me my place? He wr betifully about his llege days Los Angel, where he went to his first one, though he n't rell the name, wryly notg, "Of urse I n't remember my first gay bar — I was dnk.

" He's also spired to dig to the past: "Enough time has passed that gay bars, once a surge, have bee monumental their own way.

HOWARD BROWN TO BUY PNEERG GAY BAR LTLE JIM’S FOR A MAJOR EXPANSN IN LAKEVIEW

" That history clus the famo 1969 uprisg at the Stonewall Inn New York, but Atherton L also div to other, lser-known bars, cludg on that endured police raids meant to put gay people their place. Throughout the book, Atherton L scrib the gay bars that he equented, and his scriptns of the tablishments are endlsly evotive.

MOSW GAY BARS

" Atherton L explor topics like archecture and urban geography, as they relate to gay bars, betifully; he wr wh a real knowledge that's more than jt tellectual dilettantism. About the changg looks of bars before the turn of the century, he observ, "A new type of gay bar began to appear London's Soho the neti — airy, glossy, ntental.

" Along the way, Atherton L dips to other topics related to the gay muny: the appropriatn of gay culture by straight people, mic, drkg, and the valu of the younger generatn of LGBTQ people. Gay Bar is a book that's beyond imprsive, and Atherton L's wrg is both extremely telligent and rehgly unpretent.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

And while succeeds on many levels, perhaps the most remarkable one is Atherton L's nstant qutng of himself, and the realizatns of how he's changed sce he walked to his first gay bar years ago: "Maybe, I thought, I'm a dis ball.