Denver's bt gay bars: LGBTQ and queer clubs to check out Colorado

Contents:

• GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• GAY NIGHTLIFE RICHMOND: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY
• CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• MOSW GAY DANCE CLUBS & PARTI
• GAY SALT LAKE CY
• MOSW GAY MAP
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• GAY NIGHTLIFE CHARLTON, S.C.: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

For a relatively small cy the nservative state of South Carola, Columbia has a surprisgly fervent gay nightlife scene.

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A uple of the town's most popular LGBTQ+ bars are wh view of the stately pol buildg, and a few more mixed but gay-iendly bars and hangouts are the Five Pots retail and entertament neighborhood, not far om the Universy of South Carola.

While Columbia isn't a gay mec, do rank among the more welg statns the state, and the cy hosts the annual South Carola Gay Pri celebratn. Visors n enjoy some gay-iendly plac to drk, de, and tch live mic this iendly cy and hub of South Carola polics and tn. While there aren't many exclively-gay bars or clubs Columbia, there are some lively on full of karaoke, dancg, drag shows, and drk specials, among other fun activi.

The Capal Club: One of the longt-nng gay bars the Southeast, and the olst Columbia, the laid-back and private Capal Club is a block om the pol buildg downtown. PT's 1109: In the shadows of the pol buildg, PT's 1109 is arguably the most popular gay bar and nightclub Columbia, wh a good-size dance floor and drk specials.

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The venue has drag shows, karaoke, and a variety of parti, pl events supportg Gay Pri and other muny anizatns. Some of the bt, most novative food the cy n be found a short walk om both the Capol and the cy's gay bars. The mt-do event is the South Carola Gay Pri celebratn which has taken place Columbia sce 1989 and is one of the state's ma events.

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Columbia, SC Prime Timers is a group of olr gay or bisexual men (pl younger men 21 and up) that holds many activi: Check out their potlucks, piics, movi, plays, lol and out of town trips, and more.

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There are plenty of gay bars up and down 9th ave and there's no reason to spend money at a place that will treat you like total trash, threaten you, and be unnecsarily belligerent and make you feel unsafe jt bee they're on some kd of power trip.

I went to a few gay bars, and by far this was the bt place to dance and the mic was the bt here, varied, and not too much dance mic like you got your head bangg a fish bowl! The cy’s nizens talk about often: Nightlife tablishments, be they storied or new on the scen, have seen their rpective clientel grow to be clive of not jt gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr lols and visors recently. This lively cy on the Jam River has a handful of popular gay bars and clubs, pl a few mastream spots wh strong followgs the muny.

Also, check out the Mm District—cludg the funky Wt End Carytown shoppg area wh s ma drag, Wt Cary Street—and don't miss the cy's gay theater and Pri events. While gay-iendly bars and eateri Richmond may be limed, the reliable on offer excg variety, om game nights and drag shows to we bars wh Mederranean fare. Bar: A cheerful gay lounge and rtrant and one of the cy's olst gay-owned bs, Bar draws plenty of revelers.

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Those lookg for some gay-iendly clubbg and live mic Richmond n explore the few top spots, which feature everythg om ladi' nights wh DJs to belly-dancg class and Lat lounge mic.

The popular downtown tablishment Godey's (open to ag 18 and up) is both a gay dance club and rtrant, and 's one of the top venu the state among clubbers, llege stunts, and others.

If you're planng to vis historic llege town of Charlottville (about 70 mut by r om Richmond), check out the Charlottville Gay Bars and Dg Gui. Gay bars offer LGBTQ+ muny members a place to go which they n be fortable and treated as humans, they ’s important that the spac rema open, as a bs and to the public, so people and outsi of the LGBTQ+ muny n enjoy the bars and experience queer culture, said Alexanr, stage name Duchs Morngstar. The bs has sce remaed a part of the gay bar Our Place routely hosts drag performance nights, featurg artists such as Sage Summers, Heather Bea and Brooklyn Burroughs, and drag pageants.

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English Ivy's -owner Sam Stt said about 80% of the bar's clientele are regulars, llg the bar a "gay Cheers, " referencg the bar the 90s s "where everybody knows your name. The eatery loted the Sat Joseph neighborhood is not a dance club, but rather a “gay-therg” place for members of the LGBTQ+ muny and alli, acrdg to s webse. By night is Almost Famo, an “everyone bar, ” which do not market self as a gay bar but ters to queer people, said assistant general manager Jam Alexanr, stage name Duchs Morngstar.

“You n e to this environment and be queer and feel like you’re safe but ’s not your typil what you would thk gay bar feel, ” said show director Myke Dobbs, whose stage name is Lady Dumpster. For many years, Zonie’s has been one of the ma plac to see profsnal performers and one of the few gay bars to host open stage nights for amatr artists.

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Our gay and lbian bars have a ltle b of somethg for everyone, wh late-night loung, dance clubs, burlque and drag shows, and long-standg neighborhood waterg hol almost every rner of the cy. And each wh their own unique history and out some of the bt gay bars and clubs to experience Chigo’s LGBTQ+ nightlife scene. The South Shore staple is also one of Chigo’s first black-owned gay bars, makg all the more meangful for the spot’s many regulars.

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Come for trivia, the ee Sunday night buffet, and the themed dance parti — then e back the next morng for bnch at attached sister rtrant ClosetYou n’t talk about gay bars Chigo whout talkg about Northalsted (also known as Boystown). The natn's pal is home to a lively LGBTQ+ nightlife scene wh plenty of gay and lbian bars jt wag for you to jo on the fun.

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Larry’s Lounge is a gay neighborhood pub, wh always-affordable drks, solid happy hour specials, mouth-waterg pub fare (see: sweet potato tots) and one of the cy’s iendlit pats (you n brg your dog, too!

Number Ne to the btlg Logan Circle urty of -founr Ed Bailey, who helped DC’s gay nightlife scene to grow durg his days as a DJ. Suated right the heart of Adams Man’s btlg 18th Street is Pchers, a gay sports bar, and A League of Her Own, the adjacent bar for lbian and queer women.

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.

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But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology. 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.

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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.

In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

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“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. It don’t intify self as an explicly gay bar, but ’s a popular hangout for olr gay men occupyg the former Barker Lounge space.

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Its owners have claimed ’s the cy’s olst gay bar, havg opened the 1950s and gone openly gay the 1970s, acrdg to Wtword, wh s stantly regnizable, rabow-pated door.