In Memoriam: 17 Defunct Gay Bars D.C., Chigo, Miami

Contents:

• THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.
• GAY BARS ARE DISAPPEARG. THEIR PAST HOLDS KEYS TO THEIR FUTURE.
• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• AT THE CLUB: LOTG EARLY BLACK GAY AIDS ACTIVISM WASHGTON, D.C.
• WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.

I cid I wanted to tell the story of Phase One [for my this], but I also wanted to tell the history of how other spac existed around Phase One, and why Phase One had managed to last for 45 me a b more about the history of “The Gay Way.

GAY BARS ARE DISAPPEARG. THEIR PAST HOLDS KEYS TO THEIR FUTURE.

RIP Gay BarsCi around the untry and globe have seen many of their most beloved gay and lbian waterg hol close down — often after the area's queer populatn dispers or the owner simply gets priced out.

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

The above map and s acpanyg history tell the story of the bars, bookstor, group hom, clics, and church that have played sential rol DC's gay muny for the past half century.

AT THE CLUB: LOTG EARLY BLACK GAY AIDS ACTIVISM WASHGTON, D.C.

Durg the 60s and 70s, as LGBT activism moved more to the public foreont, the number of gay bars grew throughout the District; also emergg this time were Guild Prs, which published gay travel guis, fictn, and a newspaper lled Gay Fom, as well as the Washgton Free Clic, which provid STD unselg to gay men.

WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'

“Nowadays bars like Nellie's, one of the few notable gay bars to open sce 2000, are attend by straight people, and many bars whout the tentn of beg a gay bar wele and celebrate their LGBT muny. The data Kate ed to create the map is available through the Rabow History Project, an anizatn dited to llectg, prervg, and promotg gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr history DC.

Today, as bat ntue to surface about the need and sirabily of gay bars, one of the earlit gay-owned gay bars — Seattle’s Garn of Allah — has surprisg lsons about the history of gay bars and their likely War II is creded for a sea-change LGBTQ+ life. Perhaps was experienc such as the that spired the postwar spread of somethg that until then had been que rare: bars jt for gay people had long ngregated, and not always furtively, but almost always alongsi straight people.

LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

For example, one 20th-century gay man relled, “I have a iend who was a teacher, who was a snob, still is, and he would only go to hotel bars, never would go to the other bars.