Meet Kiki, an Excg New Gay Bar Replacg a Pair of Shuttered Shaw Div - Eater DC

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• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV
• THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA
• RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD
• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• D.C.’S NEWT QUEER BAR IS A LTLE GAY PUB. LERALLY.
• WASHGTON DC GAY BARS

LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

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.

MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV

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.

THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

Meet Kiki, an Excg New Gay Bar Replacg a Pair of Shuttered Shaw Div. Val Dupont Gay Bar Cobalt Is Closg After Two Des.

The new project om Keaton Fedak, the outgog general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose. ’s Gay Flag Football League).

“We’re hopg to make a gayborhood Shaw. Across the street om Kiki and Dirty Goose, unaffiliated gay tablishment Nellie’s Sports Bar ma negative headl this June after a secury guard asslted a Black woman. Asslt Agast a Black Woman at Nellie’s Could Lead the Gay Bar to Lose Its Liquor License [EDC].

RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD

McDaniel was former general manager of A League of Her Own at Pchers, and Pike was both a bartenr and head of secury at the Adams Man gay bar. The bar also sponsors Washgton Prodigy (women’s tackle football), as well as gay softball and kickball. Bunker, a subterranean gay club, opened s massive doors to live DJ sets on Thursday, Febary 23.

In the past three years, all of the cy’s siar clubs have closed, cludg Cobalt, Secrets, DC Eagle, and the largt gay dance club D.

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

While Bunker is the first bona fi gay club D. “Why don’t they have more gay villas, ” Whe said, “I liked wrg Ernte. Whe, who liv New York, was a -founr of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and of the 1980s queer wrers group The Vlet Quill.

“Whether ’s evotive pictn of gay life durg the tumultuo 1980s, pastakgly rearched bgraphy or elegant memoir, Whe’s work stands out across s as s ronance … for a multu of voted rears.

D.C.’S NEWT QUEER BAR IS A LTLE GAY PUB. LERALLY.

) Whe has been lled the “godfather of gay Amerin lerature, ” Prceton Alumni Weekly has reported.

WASHGTON DC GAY BARS

“I’m workg now on a sex memoir about the lov of my life, ” Whe, who 1977 -wrote wh Charl Silverste, “The Joy of Gay Sex, ” said. Beg gay was sful and illegal. In that era, “the three most heo thgs Ameri were hero, munism and homosexualy, ” Whe wrote an say.

“Or they would try to get passn for gays and prent as sick sad stori, ” Whe said.