Diplomatic tensn reportedly risg between Uned Stat and Jamai over gay Amerin diplomat

Contents:

• GREAT GAY BARS AND RTRANTS TO VIS SOUTH FLORIDA
• GAY BARS AREN’T DISAPPEARG; THEY’RE CHANGG
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE ONLY GAY BAR PASANA
• THE SALOON, A MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, DROPS ANHSER-BCH BEERS FOLLOWG THE BUD LIGHT CONTROVERSY
• “I THK WE HAVE A GAY BAR”
• VODA SPA & SNATHE MOST POPULAR GAY SNA MOSW.MOSWMENUBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCISE CLUBSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPRSIA INXVODA SPA & SNA
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

GREAT GAY BARS AND RTRANTS TO VIS SOUTH FLORIDA

Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016. Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street. The venue is the only Latx gay bar LA that explicly ters to a gay and Mexin dience every night, not jt as a theme once a week.

But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology. The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny. Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach.

GAY BARS AREN’T DISAPPEARG; THEY’RE CHANGG

One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows. Dubbed by KCET as Montebello’s bt Lato gay bar, Chi is the sister to Club Cobra, servg as a groundg se for the queer Latx muny the suburbs of East LA. It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi.

1119 Loct Street, Gayborhood. Owned by JonCarl Lachman, the chef behd the East Passyunk favore (and sadly soon-to-be-closed) Noord, Wkel is a statn bnch spot the Gayborhood.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Philly’s olst gay bar has been an in for the leather muny sce 1982 and is home to the Mx. Great Gay Bars and Rtrants to Vis South Florida.

This gay-iendly der boasts an extensive selectn of illy named dish such as the ka’monawannalaya fish dip and the Ivana Hooker burger topped wh bl chee and ban, pl bowls, salads, wraps, sandwich, and more. Self-scribed as Ameri’s most “popular gay sports bar, ” guts n tch the game on one of the many flatscreen TVs si the space while dg on fort food, sippg on ld beverag, or playg bar gam like darts. Partake a daily happy hour, channel your ner Freddie Mercury or Gloria Gaynor on s Monday and Tuday karaoke nights, put your knowledge to the tt on Tuday trivia nights, and get that workout wh dance rd to the wee hours of the night ever Sunday.

This gay-iendly hotel featur a popular bar wh daily events that are open to the public. Hôtel Gaytherg.

WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE

This is also the first time Huynh will own a bar, but a ago he was a bartenr at some of the most proment gay bars San Francis, mostly the Castro district. When he took stock thgs, Huynh said, “I realized that the bt tim my life were the Castro, beg myself, beg gay and ee. “I would love to make a quote unquote Castro of Oakland, ” he said, “where people flow om bar to bar all night, a real gay scene right here Oakland.

THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE ONLY GAY BAR PASANA

There was a moment readg Greggor Mattson’s book, Who Needs Gay Bars?, where I found myself beg credibly fensive. One of the 130 gay bar owners he terviewed is bemoang how his ctomers are no longer ntent to hang wh iends and nverse over a few drks. Gay bar patrons want entertament, he says — drag shows, TV watch parti, activi.

The differenc are sort of the pot of Mattson’s book, a chronicle of gay bars 39 stat across the untry and throughout Amerin history. “There is no one answer to the qutn ‘Who needs gay bars? ’ bee there is no one ‘who, ’ no one set of ‘needs, ’ and no one kd of ‘gay bar, ’” wr Mattson, a soclogy profsor at Oberl.

THE SALOON, A MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, DROPS ANHSER-BCH BEERS FOLLOWG THE BUD LIGHT CONTROVERSY

There are strip clubs and dive bars and f and cktail bars servg both gay and straight people. Gay bars are not a monolh.

But the state of the gay bar has bee a prsg ncern. Mattson wr that 50 percent of the untry’s gay bars closed between 2012 and 2021, and that the difficulti have not been evenly felt. But even light of all the threats, gay bars are figurg out how to fill hol muny needs, how to pete wh apps and apathy, how to balance muny tradns wh more clive valu.

And what’s more, the “gay bar” as exists popular imagatn — an exclive space by and for eher gay men or women — has never reprented what gay bars actually are. “Gay bars are not dyg, they’re evolvg.

“I THK WE HAVE A GAY BAR”

Eater: A big pot you keep g back to is the nebulo ncept of a gay bar.

VODA SPA & SNATHE MOST POPULAR GAY SNA MOSW.MOSWMENUBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCISE CLUBSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPRSIA INXVODA SPA & SNA

After all the terviews, are you any closer to beg able to fe what a “gay bar” is?

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

So n a fe be a gay bar?

Or if a nightclub has a gay night at least once a week, then I’m willg to say that’s a place where queer culture flourish. My favore gay bar Cleveland closed, and I was really stunned at the reactn. Bee some of the lol LGBTQ+ folks were like, “Yeah, we don’t need gay bars anymore.

” I regnized that the were maly cis whe gay men who are middle class or above. When I went lookg, I wanted to know, is [the closg of gay bars] part of a trend?

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

So then I set out to make a database g the Damron guis and to fd out, were gay bars gog away? And then I wanted to know om people who’ve been volved wh gay bars over the last 20 or so years, what have they seen?

Nobody had talked to gay bar owners. In the book you wre that certa kds of gay bars, like lbian bars or more “cisy” gay bars, are closg at a faster clip than other typ. What sort of gay bars do you see thrivg right now?

You mentned that a lot of people have been sayg that they personally don’t need gay bars anymore bee they feel wele anywhere. What do you make of that tensn and the issu that arise wh what we expect out of gay bars vers what they n reasonably offer? Ltle ci will end up wh a gay film ftival anized out of the bar.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

When someone says they don’t need gay bars, jt puts me a thoughtful mood. Is , “I don’t need gay bars my middle age, but I might as a retiree, ” or is , “I don’t need gay bars now that I’m a mted partnership, but I might if I were sgle”?

I don’t know that needg gay bars is an on-off swch for the rt of your life, and so ’s important to me that the bars that n serve all of be open for when we need them. In my own life, I start feelg guilty for not equentg the gay bars my neighborhood and my cy. ” A lot of amics bate or wonr whether we’re a post-gay phase, where we — and ’s never que clear who the “we” is — don’t need our gay inti or LGBTQ+ inti anymore.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

But one of the thgs I realized talkg to owners of bars that don’t intify as gay bars but are certaly full of gay people is that maybe other bars need to prove to that they’re post-straight. Somethg that sort of surprised me when I was terviewg was the number of straight people who are pillars of the gay muny.

The number of ci where the gay muny jt do not functn whout the labor and re of some straight person.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

But I’m cur what you thk queer and gay bars might look like whout the threat of opprsn. What would mean to have a gay bar a world where we weren’t opprsed? Here I rely on David Halper, who wrote a book, How to Be Gay, and he nclus that even if was a world whout opprsn, we still are raised a heteronormative world.

I’m not married to the ia of a gay bar always beg everythg — if ’s a queer fe, if ’s a nonprof LGBTQ+ center — but I thk the panmic tght all how important is to have physil plac to ngregate, and those will rema important even a hypothetil, non-opprsive future.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Was there anythg else your rearch you were surprised by, posively or negatively, or maybe a prenceived notn that you had about gay bars that was challenged?

I started llg outposts gay bars that are more than an hour’s drive om the neart other gay bar.