Gay bars and cktail culture are at a historic crossroads. Will queer nightlife tch up to mastream venu' drks programs?
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THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
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The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that.
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THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
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—Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars. It’s gay Cheers. It feels like everythg a gay bar should be.
BEER IS SO GAY
Today's bt gay bars span div, dance clubs, cktail loung and muny spac, helpg to shape popular drkg culture at large. * drink gay bar *
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?
GAY BAR, MEET COCKTAIL BAR
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. But perhaps most signifintly, gave the gay muny of Boston somethg sperately need: visibily.