Some Queer Bars Shutter for Good, but Whe Center's Gayborhood Hangs On - The Stranger

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Whe Center gets a gay bar, while Eric Rivera, who worked at Alea unr famed chef Grant Achatz, offers fancy pub gb Interbay.

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THE SWALLOW, A NEW GAY BAR, OPENS WHE CENTER, AND A BIG-NAME CHEF TO INTERBAY

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“I thk a lot of gay people are movg away — farther south, and I thk that is where our opportuny is.

”Smh creds the Lumber Yard Bar, loted across the street, for brgg the gay scene here. The Lumber Yard, billed as Whe Center’s first gay bar, draws as big a crowd as any LGBTQ bars on Capol Hill sce buted last year.

SOME QUEER BARS SHUTTER FOR GOOD, BUT WHE CENTER'S GAYBORHOOD HANGS ON

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The Lumber Yard, a gay bar, opened 2017. A send gay bar, the Swallow, opened 2019 but closed permanently 2020.

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“We’re not explicly jt a gay bar, but we wanted to ntue to make an LGBTQ-iendly space, ” owner Amy McCormack says. The neighborhood’s first gay bar — which opened January of 2018 — has found a new lotn jt across the street at 9630 16th Avenue SW. Co-owner Michale Farrar poted to a break- a month ago as reason for the spicn and told the Whe Center Blog that there were “anti-gay tags” on the wdows of the bar the week leadg up to the fire.

It’s been a long journey for The Lumberyard Bar, the gay bar Whe Center, the unirporated southwt of Seattle neighborhood.

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The Lumber Yard Bar Fds A New Home – Seattle Gay Scene.

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