LGBT gui to Washgton, DC, cludg gay bars and nightlife

Contents:

• THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA
• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• THE BEST WASHGTON DC GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON DC
• IN D.C., GAY BARS AND DIV LEAD A WAVE OF BS REQUIRG PROOF OF VACCATNS
• THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.
• BT GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS WASHGTON DC

THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

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! 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.

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

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’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.

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

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. 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.

While the liquor license and fal settlement agreements are still beg procsed, the tr behd The Ltle Gay Pub note that their spotls rerds, as far as ABRA vlatns, and their longstandg reputatns appear to have aid them openg whout much phback om the cy, scribg the procs of applyg for var licens and perms as “drama-ee.

THE BEST WASHGTON DC GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON DC

The Ltle Gay Pub is aimg for a soft openg around March 1, pendg on how quickly a liquor license n be obtaed. Bunker, a subterranean gay club, opened s massive doors to live DJ sets on Thursday, Febary 23.

IN D.C., GAY BARS AND DIV LEAD A WAVE OF BS REQUIRG PROOF OF VACCATNS

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. 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.

THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.

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 above map and s acpanyg history tell the story of the bars, bookstor, group hom, clics, and church that have played sential rol DC's gay muny for the past half century. Durg the 60s and 70s, as LGBT activism moved more to the public foreont, the number of gay bars grew throughout the District; also emergg this time were Guild Prs, which published gay travel guis, fictn, and a newspaper lled Gay Fom, as well as the Washgton Free Clic, which provid STD unselg to gay men.

The growth of gay spac slowed down the 1980s, she says, but at the same time the clud DC's first gural High Heel Drag Queen Race, which has now bee an stutn.

The slowed growth ntued the 90s and 2000s, but 's very possible that's bee time has passed, there's been ls of a need for gay people to hi pla sight. “Wh greater acceptance has me blurrier l to what nstut gay bars and spac, ” wr Kate.

BT GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS WASHGTON DC

“Nowadays bars like Nellie's, one of the few notable gay bars to open sce 2000, are attend by straight people, and many bars whout the tentn of beg a gay bar wele and celebrate their LGBT muny. The data Kate ed to create the map is available through the Rabow History Project, an anizatn dited to llectg, prervg, and promotg gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr history DC. Owner Spencer Hurd moled Licht after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany.