Downtown mailbag: New Gay Street market brgg sodas, snacks, scratch-offs and smok

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This week, our downtown Knoxville team answers:Is the Indian rtrant and nvenience store still openg on Gay Street? Convenience store, Indian rtrant g soon to Gay StreetI recently stopped by what's soon to be Ian's Market the 100 block of Gay Street and spoke wh -owner Keyur Patel.

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He said the store uld open as soon as July 17 or Patel, -owner of the forthg Ian's Market the 100 block of Gay Street, pos for a portra as workers prepare the space for openg day. Gay St., will have a variety of typil nvenience store ems that clu:BeerChips and snacksCigarettCoffeeIce creamLottery ticketsSodaAn ATM also will be loted si, and Patel said ems will be available through third-party livery servic.

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Gay St. The new space is roughly the same size as the Gay Street lotn, and we will be the foc.

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However, a small spirs sectn will be for the lotn, Bergmeier said, many Gay Street ctomers e om their hom Happy Holler and Fourth & Gill to shop. Everyone knows that change n be cremental, but the phrase “gay bar” sounds cliché anymore. The cy’s nizens talk about often: Nightlife tablishments, be they storied or new on the scen, have seen their rpective clientel grow to be clive of not jt gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr lols and visors recently.

10 GAY FRIENDLY RTRANTS ATLANTA

It’s not overtly “gay! Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016.

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Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street.

The venue is the only Latx gay bar LA that explicly ters to a gay and Mexin dience every night, not jt as a theme once a week. But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology. The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny.

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Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach.

One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows. Dubbed by KCET as Montebello’s bt Lato gay bar, Chi is the sister to Club Cobra, servg as a groundg se for the queer Latx muny the suburbs of East LA. It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi.

The Abbey, arguably the untry’s biggt and most famo gay bar Wt Hollywood, is officially on the market.

STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

Gay bar Dallas Eagle was open there sce the ‘90s, offerg a place of “refuge and activism, ” as Texas Monthly put . The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world.

GAY BAR NAM: 50+ GAY BAR NAME IAS & SUGGTNS

Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St. The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic.

The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur.

—Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli.