Gay Nightlife Columbia, South Carola: Bt Bars, Clubs, & More

Contents:

• GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• THE BEST COLUMBIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLUMBIA
• WHAT HAPPENED TO COLUMBIA’S GAY CLUBS?
• GAYT PLAC IN SOUTH CAROLA FOR 2020
•  SOUTH CAROLA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAY SOUTH CAROLA TRAVEL GUI

GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

For a relatively small cy the nservative state of South Carola, Columbia has a surprisgly fervent gay nightlife scene. A uple of the town's most popular LGBTQ+ bars are wh view of the stately pol buildg, and a few more mixed but gay-iendly bars and hangouts are the Five Pots retail and entertament neighborhood, not far om the Universy of South Carola.

While Columbia isn't a gay mec, do rank among the more welg statns the state, and the cy hosts the annual South Carola Gay Pri celebratn.

THE BEST COLUMBIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLUMBIA

Visors n enjoy some gay-iendly plac to drk, de, and tch live mic this iendly cy and hub of South Carola polics and tn. While there aren't many exclively-gay bars or clubs Columbia, there are some lively on full of karaoke, dancg, drag shows, and drk specials, among other fun activi. The Capal Club: One of the longt-nng gay bars the Southeast, and the olst Columbia, the laid-back and private Capal Club is a block om the pol buildg downtown.

WHAT HAPPENED TO COLUMBIA’S GAY CLUBS?

PT's 1109: In the shadows of the pol buildg, PT's 1109 is arguably the most popular gay bar and nightclub Columbia, wh a good-size dance floor and drk specials. The venue has drag shows, karaoke, and a variety of parti, pl events supportg Gay Pri and other muny anizatns. Some of the bt, most novative food the cy n be found a short walk om both the Capol and the cy's gay bars.

The mt-do event is the South Carola Gay Pri celebratn which has taken place Columbia sce 1989 and is one of the state's ma events. Columbia, SC Prime Timers is a group of olr gay or bisexual men (pl younger men 21 and up) that holds many activi: Check out their potlucks, piics, movi, plays, lol and out of town trips, and more. He lik to tell younger people about The Capal Club’s early days, a very different — and ght — time to be a gay bar South Carola.

GAYT PLAC IN SOUTH CAROLA FOR 2020

The Capal Club, or simply “Capal, ” as patrons ll , is the olst operatg gay bar Columbia, and acrdg to s webse, the Southeast.

Jt around the rner is PT’s 1109, the cy’s other gay bar, which opened 2000. Through discsns wh bar owners and patrons and analyzg rerds om Historic Columbia, The Carola News and Reporter unvered a strange statistic: Columbia, 2022, has only those two gay bars, the lowt number the cy sce 1960.

Like a lot of gay bars at the time, Rumors started as a private club wh a guard list of members. “I was still playg what was typilly lled ‘gay mic.

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A sign by the door said the membership clud gay, straight, Black and whe, and anyone who ed trouble would be asked to leave. A DIVISION OF THE RAINBOW — GAY CLUBS SELF-SEGREGATE.

On Two Notch Road, The Candy Shop was known as Columbia’s only Black gay bar.

“That was the only Black gay club for around, ” she said. You had gays there, straights there, you had everybody at The Candy Shop.

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It was also a place to get away om racism at other gay clubs, cludg for Snrs, a Black trans woman.

Lane remembers Traxx as a rary even among the few gay bars town, beg targeted towards women. Even today, lbian bars are ls mon than male gay bars.

Many of them were straight wh gay iends, but some were closeted, Skipper, the print, said. Before he me to Columbia, someone shot through the wdows of a gay bar Wilmgton, N. Straight people “me (to The Candy Shop) bee their iends were gay and they were jt hangg out, ” she said.