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- LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
- THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
- WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
- THE BT GAY BARS WASHGTON, D.C.
- D.C. GAY NIGHTCLUB COBALT CLOS WH LTLE WARNG
- D.C. GAY CLUBS' VANISHG TURF
LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
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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.
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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.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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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.
D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
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WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
Val Dupont Gay Bar Cobalt Is Closg After Two Des. That began when a iend troduced him to the then gay nightclub Pier 9, loted the buildg that later beme Ziegfeld’s-Secrets, where drag shows were held.
Gay bar Pl One on Capol Hill, which also hosted drag shows. It was at the Pl One about a year later when Robson met Mother Mame Dennis, the drag performer and lead anizer of the Amy of Washgton, a lol drag social club that anized drag events, cludg the Gay Miss Universe drag petn.
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’ And 10 years later, Mame crowned me Miss Gay Universe. 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.
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While Bunker is the first bona fi gay club D. Go Gay DC has anized an LGBTQ+ Pri Bnch at Freddie’s Beach Bar Arlgton, Va. For Supergay Happy Hour / 9 p.
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D.C. GAY CLUBS' VANISHG TURF
Capal Pri, one of the largt gay pri celebratns the US, is this weekend. 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.