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Her next tone, iends said at the time, would be turng 21 and beg able to go to the gay quickly realized that alhol e — and, many s, pennce — were large parts of the LGBTQ social scene that she had been troduced to.
She eventually cid gay bars were not for her, but she had a hard time fdg a social alternative. “It took until my mid- to late-20s to fally fd a group of black, queer women where I uld fally relax my shoulrs, and I really want to provi that for the muny, ” Clark Got Tea, which Clark hop will open later this year, will be among a new wave of queer, alhol-ee social spac and travelg events that have popped up over the last few years and serve as alternativ to gay bars. While sober social spac and events have bee popular among younger Amerins more broadly, they are particularly noteworthy wh the LGBTQ muny — where substance abe is disproportnately high and gay bars have long served as unofficial muny centers and safe havens.