Some Queer Bars Shutter for Good, but Whe Center's Gayborhood Hangs On - The Stranger

Contents:

• 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

“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.

WHE CENTER KEEPS GETTG GAYER

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.

EARLY MORNG FIRE RAVAG WHE CENTER GAY BAR THE LUMBER YARD

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?

But the patg leads to my send surprisg revelatn: Whe Center is beg a very gay statn. After succsfully gentrifyg Capol Hill and turng to a bedroom muny for Amazon el, the gays have set their sights on Whe Center.

LUMBER YARD BAR ANNOUNC NEW LOTN…SNOHOMISH COUNTY TO GET NEW GAY BAR

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.

GAY BINGO 7/27

It’s been a long journey for The Lumberyard Bar, the gay bar Whe Center, the unirporated southwt of Seattle neighborhood.

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.

SOME QUEER BARS SHUTTER FOR GOOD, BUT WHE CENTER'S GAYBORHOOD HANGS ON

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.

SEATTLE’S BT GAY CLUBS, SHOPS, AND BARS

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.

AGAST THE GAY BARS: THE WHE HORSE PROTT

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?

“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.