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Contents:

• THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.
• BUNKER “PROUD TO BE DC’S NEWT GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB!”
• THE (ALMOST) LOST GAY HISTORY OF BROOKLYN
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• MOSW GAY MAP
• NAVY YARD GAY BAR FED $3K FOR NOT PREVENTG SLASHG

THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.

Neighborhood was once known as “The Gay Way, ” due to the number of LGBT tablishments on the street durg the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. I cid I wanted to tell the story of Phase One [for my this], but I also wanted to tell the history of how other spac existed around Phase One, and why Phase One had managed to last for 45 me a b more about the history of “The Gay Way.

At that time, the 1960s, and ‘70s, was illegal to be gay.

BUNKER “PROUD TO BE DC’S NEWT GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB!”

[Some LGBT bars closed down] the 1980s, which is very clearly due to the AIDs crisis—the muny was takg re of the dyg gay men.

THE (ALMOST) LOST GAY HISTORY OF BROOKLYN

Has been historilly gay, and the LGBT muny has been systemilly removed through gentrifitn and urban renewal. Six years after butg Shaw, Takoda Rtrant & Beer Garn unveils a sophomore D.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

It took nearly three years of learng how to dance at the club off South Capol Street for the baby-faced Short to ga the self-assurance to tell his fay he's gay. He was already meetg gays elsewhere the cy and said he no longer need to be at the nightclub to feel special.

But the past month, he and others have started g back to mark the fal days of a place that for most of the past 15 years was a hub for many the area's gay muny. And never before had so many gays and straights, women and men, blacks and wh, met unr one roof to dance. The club's rise and mise reflect the expansn of social life for gay men and lbians the cy.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Gay magaze that foc on arts and entertament. Only a handful of gay dance clubs existed the District, and a few bars set a small space asi for dancg.

MOSW GAY BARS

Fridays and Saturdays were primarily whe gay men.

Sundays brought black gays, and Tudays were rerved for lbians. "It was a ltle b shockg, " said Carrn-Sague, who grew up Catholic Puerto Ri, where she heard sermons about the sfulns of homosexualy. Nightclubs that weren't tradnally patronized by gays started advertisg lol gay publitns.

MOSW GAY MAP

Gays uld be open rtrants, ffeeho and loung Geetown, Capol Hill and Adams-Man.

And the Inter ma possible to chat wh other gays round-the-clock and around the world. "The world has changed so gay people n go and experience more, " Bailey said.

NAVY YARD GAY BAR FED $3K FOR NOT PREVENTG SLASHG

Velvet, he said, is perceived as a place for fashnable and ser clubbers who are primarily gay men, whereas Tracks is an "everyone" place.

It was his first nightclub and the first place where he felt tly fortable beg gay. The experiment was enough of a succs (and a fire hazard — the police shut down on openg night when 300 people showed up) that Ryan was spired to dig eper to his adopted borough’s own gay history.

The story starts wh Walt Whman’s pictns of gay cisg Leav of Grass, likely the first Amerin letters, and ntu through to the queerg of Sands Street between the World Wars and the moln of landmarks of gay life durg Robert Mos’s nstctn of the BQE the early ’60s.