The Queer Oasis of Jackson, Mississippi's Lone Gay Bar

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• THE BEST JACKSON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON
•  MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• INSI THE HOTTT GAY BAR THE MOST HOMOPHOBIC STATE THE NATN
• THE BEST MISSISSIPPI GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MISSISSIPPI
• WONRLTSEE ALL THGS TO DO{"@TYPE":"LOLBS","NAME":"WONRLT","URL":"\","ADDRS":{"@TYPE":"POSTALADDRS","STREETADDRS":"3911 NORTHVIEW DR","ADDRSLOLY":"JACKSON","ADDRSREGN":"MISSISSIPPI","ADDRSCOUNTRY":"UNED STAT","POSTALCO":"39206-5206"},"AGGREGATERATG":{"@TYPE":"AGGREGATERATG","RATGVALUE":"5.0","REVIEWCOUNT":1},"@NTEXT":"HTTP:\U002F\"}SEE ALL THGS TO DOWONRLT51 REVIEW#5 OF 9 NIGHTLIFE JACKSONGAY BARS • DANCE CLUBS & DISSREAD MOREVIS WEBSECALLEMAILWRE A REVIEWWHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYG“<3”JUL 2018BT LTLE LGBT+ BAR JACKSON <3 FUN, WELG, AND GREAT BARTENRS. SATURDAY NIGHT DRAG SHOW IS ALWAYS A BLAST SUGGT EDS TO IMPROVE WHAT WE SHOW.IMPROVE THIS LISTGBE THE FIRST TO UPLOAD A PHOTOUPLOAD A PHOTOTOP WAYS TO EXPERIENCE NEARBY ATTRACTNSAMAZG LET’S ROAM JACKSON SVENGER HUNT: PRETTY MISSISSIPPI!FUN & GAMOM $12.31 PER ADULTJACKSON PUZZLG ADVENTUREADVENTURE TOURSOM $34.95 PER GROUP (UP TO 12)PARTICIPATE A FUN SVENGER HUNT JACKSON BY OPERATN CY QUTFUN & GAMOM $10.00 PER ADULTZOMBIE SVENGERS GAME - JACKSON, MSFUN & GAMOM $20.00 PER GROUP (UP TO 10)SPECIAL OFFERJACKSON JIG SVENGER HUNTFUN & GAMOM $27.00 $21.60 PER ADULTTHE AREA ADDRS3911 NORTHVIEW DR, JACKSON, MS 39206-5206FULL VIEWBT NEARBYRTRANTS138 WH 3 KRYSTAL30.2 MIAMERINSUBWAY10.2 MIAMERIN • FAST FOOD • DELIBURGER KG30.2 MILOU'S BAR & GRILL40.3 MIBIG APPLE INN80.4 MITHE PIG & PT6110.8 MI$$ - $$$ • BARBECUE • GASTROPUB • BEER RTRANTSRALLY'S10.5 MIAMERINMCDONALD'S10.5 MIWALKER'S DRIVE IN5900.9 MI$$$$ • CONTEMPORARY • VEGETARIAN FRIENDLY • VEGAN OPTNSSALTE2290.9 MI$$ - $$$ • AMERIN • CAJUN & CREOLE • BARSEE ALLATTRACTNS78 WH 6 MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MM3601.9 MICHILDREN'S MMSMISSISSIPPI MM OF NATURAL SCIENCE3242.1 MINATURAL HISTORY MMSMISSISSIPPI CIVIL RIGHTS MM230ART GALLERI • SPECIALY MMSMISSISSIPPI STATE CAPOL267HISTORIC S • POTS OF INTERT & LANDMARKSMISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURAL & FORTRY MM1341.4 MISPECIALY MMSEUDORA WELTY HOE AND GARN1252.2 MISPECIALY MMS • HISTORIC SOLD CAPOL MM218HISTORIC S • ARCHECTURAL BUILDGSDULG HALL30.9 MITHEATERSMEDGAR EVERS HOME982.1 MIHISTORIC SMISSISSIPPI MM OF ART147ART MMSSEE ALLCONTRIBUTEWRE A REVIEWUPLOAD A PHOTOREVIEWSQ&AFILTERSENGLISHMOST RECENTDETAILED REVIEWS: REVIEWS ORR RMED BY SCRIPTIVENS OF ER-INTIFIED THEM SUCH AS CLEANLS, ATMOSPHERE, GENERAL TIPS AND LOTN RMATN.5.01 REVIEWEXCELLENT1VERY GOOD0AVERAGE0POOR0TERRIBLE0ER MCLTON, MS19 NTRIBUTNS0JUL 2018 • FRIENDSBT LTLE LGBT+ BAR JACKSON READ MOREWRTEN JULY 26, 2018THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.NO QUTNS HAVE BEEN ASKED ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCEASK A QUTNALSO POPULAR WH TRAVELERSSEE ALLUNRGROUND 11918BARS & CLUBSFZGERALD'S AT THE HILTON JACKSON8BARS & CLUBSHAL & MAL'S2BLU BARSFENIAN'S PUB6BARS & CLUBSOPEN NOWFONDREN ART GALLERY2ART GALLERI • BLU BARSLIBRARY LOUNGE10BARS & CLUBSOPEN NOWLET'S ROAM JACKSONCY TOURS • BAR, CLUB & PUB TOURSBLACK SILHOUETTE WEARBAR, CLUB & PUB TOURS • TAXIS & SHUTTLIS THIS YOUR TRIPADVISOR LISTG?OWN OR MANAGE THIS PROPERTY? CLAIM YOUR LISTG FOR EE TO RPOND TO REVIEWS, UPDATE YOUR PROFILE AND MUCH MORE.CLAIM YOUR LISTGWONRLT (JACKSON) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
• GAY CLUB GULFPORT (MISSISSIPPI)
• GAYT PLAC IN MISSISSIPPI FOR 2020
• REACTN POSIVE TO JACKSON'S NEW GAY BAR, CLUB DETOUR
• INSI GAY LIFE MISSISSIPPI -- THE NATN'S MOST HOMOPHOBIC STATE
• THE BEST MISSISSIPPI GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MISSISSIPPI
•  MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

THE BEST JACKSON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON

Ask them where their first gay bar was, and they'll likely give you a different answer each time. Formerly another gay bar named Bottoms Up, 's unrgone new ownership, but attracts the same old crowd.

And although livg as a gay uple Mississippi hasn't been the stereotypil opprsive nightmare some outsirs might thk is, they still turn heads durg their day-to-day life.

And people realize we're gay bee two guys stg on the same si of the booth is jt not the norm when there's an empty si. Here, don't matter if you're gay, straight, bi, transgenr.

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"I was like this young ltle gay boy that was so love wh all the drag queens, and I was like, I want to do that one day, " Illumati says. "There are so many plac out there that bash gay people, talk about , ll all typ of eaks, " she says. — It was a big night for gay Bill 1523, the legislature's attempt to tablish a sort of Southern-ied sharia over the state's LGBT populatn, had been molished by a feral judge jt hours earlier.

INSI THE HOTTT GAY BAR THE MOST HOMOPHOBIC STATE THE NATN

Mike Pence (R), now Donald Tmp's nng mate, that let bs refe service to any group they nsired heretil to their the clock was tickg toward midnight si WonrLt, lolly signated as the hottt and most "Vegas" gay bar perhaps the most homophobic state the spac, purple-l club are maybe 30 patrons. The celer irony for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people is that two of the cultural forts agast the age-old poverty and discrimatn have been the church and fay — both of which are often nied to 3, 484 same-sex upl here reprent jt 3. 14 of every 1, 000 hoeholds, a rat that ranks 49th the natn, acrdg to the Williams Instute, a thk tank at the UCLA School of Law that tracks gay life.

No state Ameri has passed more rtrictive legislatn on gay life, more emphatilly supported anti-gay referendums, or featured such blisterg nmnatn om the pulp or the polil podium. "It's disappotg that once aga the feral ernment has to stand up for jtice and equaly our state, " says Rob Hill, a former Methodist mister and now the state director of the Human Rights a rult, gay life here plays out maly as a don't-ask-don't-tell echo of days gone by.

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When I walk out that door I have three strik agast me — I’m black, gay and a woman. ”Fondren, the historic arts district that li about four north of the state pol buildg, is Jackson's "gayborhood, " home to WonrLt and a low-tensy mag for a good b of openly LGBT Eudora Welty hoe is nearby.

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It is set behd a saggg cha-lk is Jack's Constctn Se, which was, until closed two weeks ago, the bar and gatherg spot for Jackson's LGBT crowd for a wasn’t flashy, but if you are of a certa age was somethg like Mississippi’s Official Gay Bar. There were a uple of pool tabl and some vtage Hollywood a recent morng here ss owner Jack Myers, 71, the patron sat of Mississippi’s gay scene. He has n one gay bar or another this town for 50 years, startg back when even terracial marriage was ’s explag that although J.

The anctral tate is a mobile me out as gay his early 20s.

He worked as an X-ray technician durg the days and ran gay bars at night. “They have this ia of what gay people do. They thk gay people are all one way.

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They jt don’t realize gay people have all sorts of preferenc and jobs and thgs, jt like they do. They thk if you’re not limp-wristed or lispg, well, then, you’re not gay. Police let him be, he says, bee they realized a gay bar was the perfect place for married officers to take their mistrs.

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”***The great gay in of Mississippi is one of the great gay ins of 20th-century Ameri: Tennsee Williams, the Pulzer Prize-wng playwright. Lived as a child Clarksdale, the heart of the “Cat on a Hot T Roof, ” Williams foc on a wealthy Delta planter and his mendac fay, torn apart by his closeted son, Brick, and his sex-starved wife, bee "Cat" is a fg work of Southern gothic and a classic of Amerin theater, people elsewhere always seem surprised that there are any openly gay people Mississippi, like they're giraff that fell off a tck on Interstate 55, on their way to brighter lights and bigger is not totally air self seems to breathe Southern Baptist.

Drivg across the state, om universy towns to beachsi ndos, om Delta farms to hill untry pastur, you'll see far more Conferate flags than gay-pri banners. Big gay personali, such as Kev Ssums, thor of "Mississippi Sissy, " seem to have left a long time has never been an openly gay member of the state legislature or of statewi elected offic.

They and other gay stunts joked that should be lled “Mississippi’s Closet” bee so many gays and lbians were Mississippians are not offered state-law protectns om discrimatn — a landlord n legally evict a tenant for beg gay.

REACTN POSIVE TO JACKSON'S NEW GAY BAR, CLUB DETOUR

And bee the state’s laws are skewed toward bs owners, anyone, not jt gay employe, n be fired om any private-dtry job for almost any the past year, feral judg (appoted by both Democrats and Republins) have stck down a state law outlawg gay marriag, a ban on same-sex upl adoptg children (the last such the natn) and HB 1523, which would have allowed people who profsed a handful of nservative Christian tes to refe bs servic to people whom they believed to be ’s not a surprise then that Mississippi, as other areas wh “religly rmed views that nmn homosexualy, ” there are greater numbers of LGBT people facg nflict and rejectn om their own fai, says Doug NeJaime, faculty director at the Williams Instute.

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”Still, not all gay lols, particularly the on unr 40, thk is a terrible Kelly, 26, a sergeant the U. "It's pretty easy to be out as a gay my experience, " Kelly says.

"But there is a certa expectatn you're not gog to be that gay person. "Down Hattiburg, Taylor Cross, 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds, most certaly is that gay person.

The percentage of people intifyg as gay is on the rise, om 2.

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