Hoton LGBT Nightlife | Gay Friendly Bars, Clubs & Live Mic

Contents:

• GUI TO GAY BARS HOTON
• THE 5 BEST HOTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS HOTON
• THE 10 BEST TEXAS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TEXAS

GUI TO GAY BARS HOTON

Gui to Gay Bars Hoton. Neon Boots is Texas' largt gay untry bar -- more than 10, 000 square feet of fun unr one roof. JR’s has been a staple Hoton’s gay scene for s, helpg form the bedrock of Montrose nightlife.

For more than a century, even before Pri Month’s orig 1969, gay bars have persevered around the world as a way for the LGBTQ muny to nnect and celebrate.

Hoton’s gay bars, particular, have been a place where people n nvene regardls of their inty and have played a key role Montrose velopg s reputatn as the cy’s “gayborhood. ” While more safe spac exist, gay bars are still a rnerstone the muny, while also beg a prime place to enjoy a happy hour cktail, a drag show, or a night of dancg.

THE 5 BEST HOTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS HOTON

And fortunate for Bayou Cy, Hoton’s diversy, even among the LGBT muny, means there’s no shortage of gay hangouts. Grab a beer and relax wh iends at Robert’s Lafte Galvton, the olst gay bar Texas, or h up the newly reopened South Beach Montrose for a long night of drks and dancg.

Whether you intify as LGBTQ or if you’re jt an ally for a good time, the 18 sential Hoton gay bars are sure to be your new favore neighborhood bar year-round. Crocker Bar is a dark, loud, but vg ltle bar that serv as the perfect place to grab a drk before venturg out to the rt of the gayborhood.

THE 10 BEST TEXAS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TEXAS

The self-scribed olst leather bar Texas, Riprd has been a fixture of Hoton’s gay bar scene sce 1982. Take the stairse up to Eagle’s Phoenix room and gaze at a timele of major historil gay events on the wall. After four long years of renovatns, Montrose’s rnerstone gay club re-opened July 2022 for drkg, dancg and partyg.

Over the past ne years, filmmaker Marc Pontello dug ep to the club’s story, explorg the role played Hoton’s gay rights movement the 1980s, the AIDS crisis of the 1990s, and s sometim shaky — but long-endurg — legacy as one of the cy’s most important cultural ins. Numbers, which first opened 1978 as a gay dis, is one of the olst ntually operatg alternative clubs the Uned Stat. Wren, who died 2014, origally operated the club as a dner theatre of sorts, later transformg to the gay dance club everyone now knows as Numbers.

For the film, Pontello pored over the Gulf Coast Archive and Mm of Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr History, and spent hours readg issu of This Week Texas magaze, the cy’s now-funct gay alt-weekly. Montrose’s prolific gay club South Beach was long a Hoton stutn, strivg to enpsulate the clivy of Miami before shuttered 2018 for renovatns. “It’s kd of a rocket lnch or somethg, ” says owner Charl Armstrong, who also operat JR’s Bar & Grill — billed as one of the olst, ntuoly open gay bars the cy.

Armstrong says that for more than 30 years and South Beach’s entire 17-year n, he refed to have media and mera crews any gay club for fear of people beg outed, losg their jobs, or their liv generally beg promised.

It was a break om some of the nservative and homogeneo cultur he found Texas, he says. “The relevance of the club scene is still a wonrful platform” for nnectg and tablishg relatnships, says Armstrong, notg that he met the love of his life 42 years ago a gay bar Florida.

The biggt (gay) dance floor Hoton wh multiple rs on each level. Rich's is known for their hottt DJs and large turn-outs on Thursday nights and sce is no longer a gay club, many teens and olr people e out for a fun time.