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AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE
The cy’s queer bars Seattle longtime gayborhood of Capol Hill are evolvg to meet the needs of a new generatn while ntendg wh gentrifitn * changes gay bar *
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At the time, the queer bars I pass are stg silent and shuttered: Pony, whose signage announced 2014 to a changg neighborhood, “This is a very gay bar.
I cut through Cal Anrson Park, named after Washgton state’s first openly gay legislator.
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As spac close or relote search of cheaper rent, there is an opportuny to rethk both the nature of queer space and the boundari of Seattle’s gayborhood. My two gay bt iends and I were dner regulars at the Broadway Grill; hnted mortuary-turned-gay-bar Chapel; and danced our hearts out at club and drag performance venue R Place, where I always felt wele, both before and after I me out as queer and genr-expansive.
Its five female founrs chose the space for s large wdows, a revolutnary move durg a time when “gay bars were more like speakeasi, ” as Manng told the Seattle Channel, hoed dark, hidn spac. But vlence isn’t the only threat to the gayborhood. “When Capol Hill first started gentrifyg, I’d be [workg the] door, and people would ask, ‘Why are there so many gay bars here?
The gayborhood of my youth was punk-rock and unashamedly queer, a rehg ntrast to the homogenized culture and merce that domated downtown and the suburbs. Dpe the “myth of gay affluence, ” LGBTQ people face higher rat of poverty than their cisgenred, heterosexual peers, along wh barriers to social servic and health re. The gayborhood has moved before, however, and uld aga.