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Contents:
- THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
- LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN
- A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME
- 13 BT GAY BARS IN BROOKLYN, NY
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
- GAY BAR MOUNTA BROOK
THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
In his new memoir, “Gay Bar,” Jeremy Atherton L documents his personal history and the history of queer inty by explorg gay bars around the world. * the brook gay bar *
Once upon a time, Wtport had both a gay bar and a strip club. The gay bar was The Brook. The gay bar outlasted them all.
It’s a ramshackle old buildg — sry, almost — and whatever is erected there will be much more profable than a gay bar. At 71 years old, the Cedar Brook has been lled the olst ntually operatg gay bar the Uned Stat.
For 7 s, every gay boy growg up Wtport has told the same story. Knowg there was a gay bar right down the street created both tremendo excement (there are people like me! Wonrg who — and what — lurked behd those ramshackle walls nsumed gay teenagers.
LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN
* the brook gay bar *
“This is a gay bar. But was hard to sta a gay club suburban Fairfield County the 2000s. Soon will no longer have a gay bar, eher.
And some other place, somewhere, will say wh pri: “We’re the olst ntually operatg gay bar Ameri.
June is Gay Pri Month.
A MEMOIR ABOUT QUEER INTY, TOLD ONE GAY BAR AT A TIME
Which means ’s a great time to look back — wh pri — on the s when our ltle suburb was home to a gay bar. And not jt any gay bar.
13 BT GAY BARS IN BROOKLYN, NY
But the olst ntually operatg gay bar the untry.
The Brook — aka as the Brook Cafe, and the Cedar Brook — was said to be the olst ntually operatg gay bar Ameri, when closed 6 years ago. (Want to know more about Wtport’s gay bar? When “the Brook” closed last June — after 71 years — was the olst ntually operatg gay bar Ameri.
And a few years om now, newers will thk we’re kiddg when we say that right there — across om Walgreens, jt down om the der — Wtport once boasted one of the most historic gay bars the untry. Sic trans Gloria Gaynor. News that the Brook — not a fe, but perhaps the olst ntually operatg gay bar the untry — is closg tonight prompted a ll om the owner of Lili’s, the breakfast food/terer on the eastbound platform of the Sgatuck railroad statn.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
I told Lili that the Cedar Brook is not really a fe — ’s a gay dance club. The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that. 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.
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. —Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars. It’s gay Cheers.
GAY BAR MOUNTA BROOK
It feels like everythg a gay bar should be. When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce.
—Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic? It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria.
It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood. It brought the gay and straight muni together the ‘90s wh clever baret programmg.