There were a few thgs that surprised me durg my dnken Saturday night Whe Center. First, this patg: An imprsive work of art. It's found the bottom floor bathroom at Lumber Yard Bar, one of the now MANY (as TWO and, by the end of this year, THREE) gay bars on the 16th Ave strip Whe Center. Is the patg a mentary on FOSTA-SESTA? Or the Washgton State Liquor and Cannabis...
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- THE SWALLOW, A NEW GAY BAR, OPENS WHE CENTER, AND A BIG-NAME CHEF TO INTERBAY
- WHE CENTER KEEPS GETTG GAYER
- EARLY MORNG FIRE RAVAG WHE CENTER GAY BAR THE LUMBER YARD
- LUMBER YARD BAR ANNOUNC NEW LOTN…SNOHOMISH COUNTY TO GET NEW GAY BAR
- GAY BINGO 7/27
- SOME QUEER BARS SHUTTER FOR GOOD, BUT WHE CENTER'S GAYBORHOOD HANGS ON
- SEATTLE’S BT GAY CLUBS, SHOPS, AND BARS
- AGAST THE GAY BARS: THE WHE HORSE PROTT
THE SWALLOW, A NEW GAY BAR, OPENS WHE CENTER, AND A BIG-NAME CHEF TO INTERBAY
Whe Center gets a gay bar, while Eric Rivera, who worked at Alea unr famed chef Grant Achatz, offers fancy pub gb Interbay. * white center gay bars *
“I thk a lot of gay people are movg away — farther south, and I thk that is where our opportuny is. ”Smh creds the Lumber Yard Bar, loted across the street, for brgg the gay scene here. The Lumber Yard, billed as Whe Center’s first gay bar, draws as big a crowd as any LGBTQ bars on Capol Hill sce buted last year.
The Lumber Yard, a gay bar, opened 2017. A send gay bar, the Swallow, opened 2019 but closed permanently 2020. “We’re not explicly jt a gay bar, but we wanted to ntue to make an LGBTQ-iendly space, ” owner Amy McCormack says.
The patg is a bathroom at the Lumber Yard Bar, one of the new gay bars Whe Center. It's found the bottom floor bathroom at Lumber Yard Bar, one of the now MANY (as TWO and, by the end of this year, THREE) gay bars on the 16th Ave strip Whe Center. Or the Washgton State Liquor and Cannabis Board's ant attack on dicks gay bars?
WHE CENTER KEEPS GETTG GAYER
Gay bars, roller rk rock shows—the southerly suburb is sudnly a good place to go out. * white center gay bars *
But the patg leads to my send surprisg revelatn: Whe Center is beg a very gay statn.
EARLY MORNG FIRE RAVAG WHE CENTER GAY BAR THE LUMBER YARD
After succsfully gentrifyg Capol Hill and turng to a bedroom muny for Amazon el, the gays have set their sights on Whe Center.
They were workg the door at The Swallow, a new gay bar opened by noted queer Seattlee Marc Wilson (the -creator and former manager of Pony, who has also performed as drag artist Ursula Android and played the electro-punk group Ononos). It's fun and cisey, both that feels like a gay cise ship and like you uld cise a few guys and get your dick sucked out the alley.
"THIS IS THE NEW CAPITOL HILL" was shouted by many dnk gays throughout the night. It’s been a long journey for The Lumberyard Bar, the gay bar Whe Center, the unirporated southwt of Seattle neighborhood.
LUMBER YARD BAR ANNOUNC NEW LOTN…SNOHOMISH COUNTY TO GET NEW GAY BAR
As the Edorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways wr, eds and do about a ln other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most vised LGBTQ news, arts and entertament webse now celebratg s 14th year as a media outlet. The neighborhood’s first gay bar — which opened January of 2018 — has found a new lotn jt across the street at 9630 16th Avenue SW. Co-owner Michale Farrar poted to a break- a month ago as reason for the spicn and told the Whe Center Blog that there were “anti-gay tags” on the wdows of the bar the week leadg up to the fire.
Seattle’s LGBTQ muny and the cizens of Whe Center and Wt Seattle woke up today to some horrible news; an early morng fire severely damaged popular gay venue The Lumber Yard Bar and adjog bs. We at Seattle Gay Scene love both a good challenge and disverg eful an tertg rmatn so we trotted out to Whe Center and quickly got some answers…by eavdroppg on the nversatns of some folks havg afternoon cktails/beers on the pat of a popular rtrant jt a few doors down om the buildgs burnt the July 5th fire. All sorts of gay bar news to announce today cludg the official nfirmatn of somethg we’ve already discsed.
Meanwhile, other news revealed on social media, we learned that the owner of the former gay bar Everett, Bar Myx, the far north Seattle suburb Snohomish County, has signed a lease to open a new gay venue even further north up Interstate 5. The Lumberyard is one of several queer tablishments that had anchored a burgeong gayborhood Whe Center, along wh The Swallow and an upg project om The Unirn that looks fuckg amazg. So are we lookg at the ath of another gayborhood before uld even get gog?
GAY BINGO 7/27
“I don’t thk there’s any one major cy that’s had a ntuo gay neighborhood, ” he says.
Seattle’s gayborhood ed to be Pneer Square; San Francis’s was the Tenrlo; and jt this week LA Pri announced 's leavg WeHo for statns unknown.
So at least for the time beg, seems as though the queerg of Whe Center will proceed as planned, wh gays filterg for now and heterosexuals expected to bee aware of the neighborhood approximately eight years. Though there are gay people and gay bs throughout Seattle, Capol Hill is tradnally the gay neighborhood, and ’s where you’ll fd most of the gay bars, the cy’s only lbian bar, and a few zany crosswalks pated the lors of the rabow. Pony has an outdoor fire p, fantastic bartenrs, clever DJs, and vtage gay porn (i.
SOME QUEER BARS SHUTTER FOR GOOD, BUT WHE CENTER'S GAYBORHOOD HANGS ON
This bar is tryg to do somethg unique by beg a bar for the entire queer muny cludg trans folks, nonbary people, lbians, and good-old-fashned gay men.
Seattle Men Leather meet at the Cuff, and lots of gay sports teams have their social functns there. Once a stalwart ttament to endurg gayns, Neighbours the days wel more and more bachelorette parti. This gay bar and cktail lounge featur outdoor seatg and a menu of appetizers, flatbread pizzas, panis, burgers, salads, and sandwich, along wh spirs, w, and beer on tap.
SEATTLE’S BT GAY CLUBS, SHOPS, AND BARS
This is North Seattle’s gay bar and the clost gay bar to the Universy of Washgton. This Whe Center gay bar is lumber-jack-themed. Vibrators on display, class on everythg om rope bondage to strap-ons to erotic massage, and a iendly staff, Babeland is perfectly sued to women who date women—but gay guys, straight upl, and folks across the spectm are also wele.
To many wh the Gay Liberatn movement, gay bars not only symbolized the “Gay Establishment, ” but also actively discrimated agast and policed more radil dividuals and groups.
AGAST THE GAY BARS: THE WHE HORSE PROTT
Many gay bars San Fransis required multiple forms of ID for Black people, barred women om enterg whout a man, and prohibed touchg. “Stud Rips Off Gays” Berkeley Tribe, Volume 4, issue 85, March 5-12, 1971 Page 18. An article om The Berkeley Tribe March 1971 summariz the plats agast gay bars the Bay Area.
The Stud, along wh other gay bars, also discrimately ID’d women. Anna Lisa, “Boytt Leonardo’s, ” Gay Sunshe, October 1970.