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- LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
- RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD
- D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
- THE BT GAY BARS WASHGTON, D.C.
- LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
- RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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Owner Spencer Hurd moled Licht after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany. His dream: lnchg a cktail bar moled after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany. “The goal is to foc on the classic cktails, rather than jt vodka-sodas and rose Kennedys, as you may get at other gay bars, ” he says.
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Licht Café is a reference to the spiratn om his go-to gay spot Mannheim, but also reflects his ial zy space. “I love art and sign, ” Hurd says, “and I wanted to make the bar unapologetilly gay.
“I want the to be a bid edgy—this is a part of gay culture. The U Street NW strip’s gay bar scene is on the up as of late. Kiki owner Keaton Fedak, the former general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose, will expand Kiki to the next-door space that formerly hoed dive Dodge Cy.
“We’re hopg to make a gayborhood Shaw, ” he told Eater last month. Meet Kiki, an Excg New Gay Bar Replacg a Pair of Shuttered Shaw Div.
D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
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In that era, “the three most heo thgs Ameri were hero, munism and homosexualy, ” Whe wrote an say.
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“Or they would try to get passn for gays and prent as sick sad stori, ” Whe said. 's evolvg gayborhood has shifted towards Logan Circle and U Street.
In Febary 2016, the Washgton Bla noted an "unual flurry of activy" wh the openg of four new gay bars, the majory of which land the U Street/Shaw/Logan Circle area. Those spots and more sports bars, dance clubs, and cktail havens are all clud Eater's round up of the District's gay-iendlit bars and hangouts.
New gay dive bar Tra opened last year, urty of the team behd Town Danceboutique and Number Ne.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
Owner Spencer Hurd moled Licht after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany * dc gay bear bar *
New to the Shaw/U Street gay bar scene is Uproar, which buted last year. 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. 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!
1923 9th Street, NW Last week we learned that: "RUSH—an all new gay bar g soon to 9th & U!" The liquor license plard says: "The Establishment will be a Tavern offerg an upsle cktail lounge experience wh a Total Occupancy Load of 188 and seatg for 67 to clu a Siwalk Café wh a * dc gay bear bar *
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.
We are proud to say that we were jt named 2022 BEST GAY BAR IN DC the annual "Bt of DC" ntt the Washgton Bla newspaper. Washgton, DC’s olst ntuoly operatg gay bar, the DC Eagle, has announced that is closg permanently. The closg of the DC Eagle and Ziegfield’s after the closure of several other DC area gay bars recent years.
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