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Contents:
- 2022, THE YEAR GAY SPAR OFFICIALLY ME OUT
- LOVE LETTER TO GAY SPAR: DUBL’S MOST BELOVED NVENIENT STORE
- GAY SPAR: HOW AN IRISH NVENIENCE STORE BEME AN LGBTQ+ STUTN
- 'GAY SPAR' HAS BASILLY WON PRI BY G OUT FOR THE FTIVAL
- GAY SPAR: LAST NEWS
- 'GAY SPAR' STAFF MEMBER SHAR HEARTFELT LETTER TO DUBL NIGHTLIFE LOVERS ABOUT HOW MUCH SHE MISS THEM
- GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTS DIVI SUPREME COURT JTIC
- GAY PARIS
- RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGHERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3 OF AND JT LIKE THAT…THE BRIEF DEATH (AND SHORT REBIRTH) OF LIL TAYINSI ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEERIC LUTZ
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- PHET GAY SNAS & SPAS
2022, THE YEAR GAY SPAR OFFICIALLY ME OUT
* the gay spar *
Gay Spar's g out story is one as old as time. We all knew Gay Spar had to officially e out on s own terms, s own time. I wanna take you to a Gay SparI wanna take you to a Gay SparI wanna take you to a Gay Spar!
LOVE LETTER TO GAY SPAR: DUBL’S MOST BELOVED NVENIENT STORE
Here's a look at the top 10 phras that the Irish LGBTQ+ muny have adopted, om the gay spar to Aoife McGregor, this is what everyone's talkg about. * the gay spar *
Gay Spar!
Some would say the 2016 Marriage Equaly Referendum uld have been a good time for Gay Spar to boldly exclaim, "I am who I am". For years, Gay Spar has been a place of clivy, a safe space (apart om the odd vasn of a brave pigeon eyeg up the baked goods every now and then) and most importantly, a place to get a breakfast roll at 3am, if that's what your heart sir. This year, we're lighted to report Gay Spar has joed the rt of the cy acknowledgg s te inty.
GAY SPAR: HOW AN IRISH NVENIENCE STORE BEME AN LGBTQ+ STUTN
Standg proudly on the rner of Gee's Street, Gay Spar has served as a highlight for many a night out Dubl. For many of , weekend galivantg around the cy centre seems like a distant memory. Are the thgs we love still there? Do the streets still look the same? I * the gay spar *
Gay spar… has bee sentient.
'GAY SPAR' HAS BASILLY WON PRI BY G OUT FOR THE FTIVAL
The Spar on Dame Street which is unoffilly known as the 'Gay Spar' has officially e out for Pri the bt possible way. * the gay spar *
Gay Spar will rema a welg sanctuary for stg wh your box of wedg, watchg the world go by, for bondg wh strangers post-night out over your snacks of choice, all lovgly adorned wh PAID stickers, and of urse, for attemptg to fd the last n of Wheclaw Dubl durg Pri weekend. All we need, when we need , unr the tree at Gay Spar. Gay Spar.
The phrase Gay Spar is not so much adopted, as created, by the Dubl LGBTQ+ muny.
Rebec More’s quote “Sunday a day of rt, but not for me” is one that has stuck wh the Irish gays who n relate to the sentiment. “GAY RIGHTS! From the origal meme of the hilarly blunt statement “Gay Rights” as a quote om Jennifer Lawrence on a fake “FCKH8” mpaign photo, to the multiple mem that followed, to Charli XCX even makg her own vio rendn, poppers hand, of the inic phrase, the term “Gay Rights!
GAY SPAR: LAST NEWS
Gay Spar. Inic Gay Spar out durg Dubl Pri celebratns * the gay spar *
© 2019 GCN (Gay Communy News). Standg proudly on the rner of Gee's Street, Gay Spar has served as a highlight for many a night out Dubl.
'GAY SPAR' STAFF MEMBER SHAR HEARTFELT LETTER TO DUBL NIGHTLIFE LOVERS ABOUT HOW MUCH SHE MISS THEM
Gay Spar is a cultural phenomenon I don't thk any of uld have predicted. Staff member Majella wr about how much she miss the party people, the buzz, and the lovg atmosphere of the place. Be right back, I am sobbg. A ltle while ago, I wrote a love letter to Gay * the gay spar *
I am of urse referrg to the cultural rner that is Gay Spar. Gay Spar has not only bee the subject of gas tweets and even an Instagram acunt, but has bee self-aware. The banner clud a picture of a tweet readg, “I wonr if Gay Spar knows ’s Gay Spar?
Bt b of work I've ever done for my job was the ia and sign of this sign for Gay Spar AKA Spar Dame Street. As a gay man, I n nfirm that has somewhat bee an unexpected cultural hub for those lookg for a post-night out munch as well as vib.
GAY MARRIAGE ARGUMENTS DIVI SUPREME COURT JTIC
We make surrogacy for gay parents and the LGBTQIA+ muny possible. Learn more about our procs for gay and trans surrogacy and fd the perfect surrogate mother and egg donor. * the gay spar *
I want a Culture Night talk about the cultural signifince of Gay Spar. I hope the Pope bls Gay Spar when he’s Dubl. They jt played the Sex and the Cy theme song Gay Spar on Dame Street.
GAY PARIS
Gay Paris Gui. The bt gay bars & dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas & spas, gay cise clubs and more Paris. Exclive reviews, maps, disunts & more. * the gay spar *
I propose that next year, that olr lady who works nights Gay Spar be appoted Grand Marshal of @DublPri. Can you IMAGINE the amount of over-partied baby gays she’s looked after at 4am when they’ve lost their phone and fallen asleep to their chicken fillet roll!? The Gays on their way to Gay Spar for a chicken fillet roll after the G.
Gay Spar, I love you and I hope you’ve been well through the crazy tim. As sually as started, we n't tell exactly when the Gay Spar nickname me about - but pre-panmic, the name was alive and well. It was ed Gay Spar around the mid-2010s bee is loted jt a few doors down om The Gee.
RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGHERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3 OF AND JT LIKE THAT…THE BRIEF DEATH (AND SHORT REBIRTH) OF LIL TAYINSI ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEERIC LUTZ
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * the gay spar *
Naturally, the shop beme synonymo wh a night out for many LGBTQ+ folk the cy, and the term Gay Spar quickly began to pop up on social media, wh many hilar tweets hailg as the place to be. In June 2019, the shop placed a banner on the floor-to-ceilg wdow which showed a tweet that read "I wonr if Gay Spar knows ’s Gay Spar?
Sce then, every year the shop has ma self known as Gay Spar, ratg self rabow balloons and flags. One funny Twter er said before the Pope's vis to Ireland 2018: "I hope the Pope bls Gay Spar when he’s Dubl.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
" Another joked: "I want a Culture Night talk about the cultural signifince of Gay Spar. " If you fd yourself spendg the night dancg The Gee while Dubl, then a vis to Gay Spar after the club shuts will be a wild and wonrful experience.
For those not the know the Spar on the rner of Dame Street is fondly known as Gay Spar due to s proximy to The Gee. One Twter er who go by the handle of danny vo ponred a while back whether the shop actually knew if was gay or not. Gay spar said gay rights!
The msage has been picked up by Twter ers who have posted a flurry of support msag to gay Spar. Nice ltle shout out for gay spar. '29th June: the day Gay Spar beme self aware' posted one person.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Can’t wa for the day there’s a Gay Spar float the Pri Para ✨?
PHET GAY SNAS & SPAS
A third envisned a Gay Spar float that clud burlque dancg chicken fillet rolls and we are so on board wh that. Biggt Gay Spa India is openg Rajouri Garn this year!