I remember my first gay bar. I was 20, newly sgle, and trated. I knew only a handful of gay people at the Universy of Maryland, where I was a senr, but one night a guy my mp a ppella group ved me out to Apex, a club near Dupont Circle. Standg at the
Contents:
- GAY WASHGTON DC
- WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE
- DC’S GAYBORHOODS ARE DISAPPEARG. HOW SHOULD WE FEEL ABOUT THAT?
- D.C. NO LONGER HAS A CENTRAL GAY NEIGHBORHOOD. DO THAT MATTER?
- THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI
GAY WASHGTON DC
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Tour historic LGBTQ+ s, grab a drk at the bt gay and lbian bars the cy, rock out at Capal Pri and so much more. Washgton DC is home to a big gay scene. Like most pals, Washgton DC offers a robt and dynamic gay district which ters to a range of different tast.
WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE
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Rather than one specific gay area, the scene Washgton has most pals, Washgton DC offers a robt and dynamic gay district which ters to a range of different tast. Rather than one specific gay area, the scene Washgton has dispersed through different neighborhoods of the cy. Most gay life, however, n be found around 17th Street Dupont Circle, and U Street Logan Circle.
DCs gayt street is 17th Street, and here you will fd a host of gay spots ready to open their doors. Word has that this place offers one of the bt gay atmospher town, and s monthly 80s dance party ‘The Breakfast Club Remix’ is a sure fire h wh the lols.
A past-time that’s pretty much bee scribed Washgton’s gay scene. To the north of Logan Circle, U Street has unrgone a massive transformatn, and is now brimmg wh some of the bt gay bars and clubs Washgton. Nellie’s Sports Bar was the first gay venue to open outsi of Dupont Circle, and has reached legendary stat thanks to s popular events cludg trivia and drag bgo.
DC’S GAYBORHOODS ARE DISAPPEARG. HOW SHOULD WE FEEL ABOUT THAT?
Last week we asked Borrstan rears, “Where’s the Gay Neighborhood DC, ” and for the fourth nsecutive year Logan Circle was the wner.
While Dupont Circle was once nsired DC’s official gay neighborhood, the percentage of rears cled om 13% last year. “This is such a 1970s qutn” got 8% of the vot — you have to figure there is a tie- to the “Everywhere and Nowhere” attu of an creasg number of both DC’s gay and non-gay muny. Where is DC’s Gay Neighborhood?
For the past three years, anticipatn of Capal Pri, we’ve asked rears, “Where’s DC’s Gay Neighborhood?
D.C. NO LONGER HAS A CENTRAL GAY NEIGHBORHOOD. DO THAT MATTER?
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THE TOP FIVE EMERGG GAY NEIGHBORHOODS OF AMERI
We ask the qutn each year bee DC’s gay populatn has been shiftg eastward and northward om the one-time center around Dupont the 1980s began shiftg to 17th Street, on the eastern end of Dupont — after beg centered along Connecticut Avenue and P Street NW wt of Dupont Circle. In the 1980s DC’s gay neighborhood began shiftg eastward to 17th Street NW.
As we have asked prev years, “Do DC still have a sgle gay neighborhood? Last year 38% 2012 said Logan Circle was the cy’s primary gay neighborhood, wh “Everywhere and Nowhere” send place, and Dupont Circle third place — wh Shaw makg big gas each year.
Today 17th Street is still generally regnized as DC’s “gay Ma Street” — and only a few blocks om the Logan Circle neighborhood. But, overall, is the Logan Circle area the new Dupont Circle when to all thgs gay? Poll: Where’s the Gay Neighborhood DC?