D.C.'s Bt Gay Bars and Hangouts - Eater DC

Contents:

• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• A STYLISH GAY-FRIENDLY HOTEL
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS
• GAYT PLAC IN WASHGTON FOR 2020
• WASHGTON DC GAY SNAS
• 12 ARRTED GAY CISG AREA NEAR REHOBOTH BEACH

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

Tour historic LGBTQ+ s, grab a drk at the bt gay and lbian bars the cy, rock out at Capal Pri and so much more. 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!).

A STYLISH GAY-FRIENDLY HOTEL

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.

'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.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

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.

GAYT PLAC IN WASHGTON FOR 2020

New gay dive bar Tra opened last year, urty of the team behd Town Danceboutique and Number Ne. New to the Shaw/U Street gay bar scene is Uproar, which buted last year.

Rawls, a dited philanthropist, donat a portn of the tour fee to the Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton, DC.

WASHGTON DC GAY SNAS

DC’s first gay sports bar opens for bs at 3 p. Or pick a theme night at JR’s: the longtime gay bar do Retro Fridays, Sunday Fundays and even drag-themed trivia on Wednday nights.

Kameny, an astronomer by tra, beme a gay rights activist when he was fired om the U. The LGBTQ+-iendly Embassy Row Hotel is a member of the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Travel Associatn and was named “one of the bt rooftop pools Ameri” by USA Today. The District's only 100 percent gay-owned brewery, 's also one of the newt addn to the cy’s lol craft beer scene.

Wh some of the most polilly and socially active LGBT muni the natn, the District has been the birthplace for many movements and anizatns, such as the Mattache Society of Washgton and the Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton, D. Certaly, the District do not tend to be the first cy that to md when nsirg the untry’s most LGBT-iendly ci, pecially when many of the hate-filled mpaigns the 1950s that hoped to crack down on those who were gay were lnched by police and feral officials centered the District. Dpe this, there have been several people, march, and headquarters the cy that have bolstered the polil strength of the LGBT muny, such as the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1979.

12 ARRTED GAY CISG AREA NEAR REHOBOTH BEACH

This two-story, red brick Colonial Revival property was once the home and office of the father of gay activism, Dr. It also served as a headquarters for gay civil rights anizg that eventually led to overturng the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's fn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Bullough’s “Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lbian Rights Historil Context” publitn, Kameny is scribed as "one of the most signifint figur" the Amerin gay rights movement.

The buildg was signated a historic landmark 2009 for beg the epicenter of the gay rights movement Washgton, D. The very first gay rights monstratn at the Pentagon was held on July 31, 1965, acrdg to Beemyn their book, “A Queer Capal.