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. 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.

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

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. 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.

THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

’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]. 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.

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

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. 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 BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

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

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

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. “We’ve been throwg events now for que a few years, and the District, after the closure of really every gay nightclub — both before COVID and then durg COVID — has really been lackg a te dance floor, ” says Zach Renovát, one of the Bunker -owners.

The Ltle Gay Pub – Photo: Do Sevilla. The other new addn, The Ltle Gay Pub, is the brachild of three longtime rtrant and bar dtry fixtur — Do Sevilla, Dty Martez, and Ben Ganr. The -owners, who have a bed experience of 37 years the bar and rtrant dtry, have a shared visn of The Ltle Gay Pub as a “gift” to the muny, providg an LGBTQ space for people the Logan Circle/Shaw neighborhood where one currently do not exist, and where there’s a arth of drkg or eatg tablishments that n rival those near the Walter E.

“It looks like an old hotel vibe, a very W Anrson-y take on quirk, where pomp and circumstance have been shelved and taken over by three quirky gays who cid to overrate to s next eratn.

WASHGTON DC GAY BARS

The Ltle Gay Pub has a kchen that the owners plan to utilize, begng wh about a dozen food ems that one uld classify as “elevated pub food, ” meang more than your typil ied pub fare.