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(Courty Kristen Porter/Hurley Event Photography)" style="object-posn:50% 50%"/></picture><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">Send Saturday at Mache June. (Courty Kristen Porter/Hurley Event Photography)</figptn></figure></sectn><sectn class="article-sectn--ntent hang-punctuatn article-sectn--first article-sectn--centered article-sectns"><p class="">The se of so much gay history Boston is pretty borg om the outsi, jt a squat gray buildg that stretch a whole block on Boylston near Fenway Park. Right now, the bars and storeonts that fill this buildg are empty as they awa the wreckg ball that will her a future luxury apartment buildg. But until jt before quarante — when Mache Nightclub and bar Ramrod officially closed — past the ont door and the blacked-out wdows at 1254 Boylston St., si was magic.</p><p class="">Ramrod, the leather and Levis gay bar, moved to the first floor 1981 wh Mache rvg out a separate gay nightclub downstairs 1998. Both spots had that kd of slightly dgy, lived- feel of a well-loved gay hangout, the cigarette smell that seemed to hang the air long after Boston banned smokg doors, the dim rners here and there for makg out. It was a sex-posive spot a (still) puranil cy, wh loud mic and stiff drks. Downstairs, drag queens twirled on stage ont of crowds that swayed unr the dis lights.</p><figure class="article-fig size-medium article-fig--pull-right"><a href="><picture><img class="size-medium article-image" src=" alt="Neon Calypso at Mache. (Courty Helix Peb Photos)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">Neon Calypso at Mache. (Courty Helix Peb Photos)</figptn></figure><p class="">The gay scene Boston is still domated by whe guys, but at least for many, Mache was a hub for a more diverse crowd. More people of lor, more women. The spot hosted <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dyke Nights</a> and at least one gay weddg receptn. The drag and theatril shows there were queer — as LGBTQ-iendly and queer as , well, weird. Like the betifully bonkers and often polil All-Star Mondays and the satiril shows staged by Ryan Landry’s vville-spired theater troupe the Gold Dt Orphans.</p><p class="">Before you uld tch her 2019 as part of season three of the realy TV show “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula,” one of Vlencia Exclamatn Pot’s more memorable moments me when she started hostg All-Star Mondays’ late drag show. “The theme was raw meat and I had everyone throwg ham at me and like sptg up k pig stum,” she says. Drag artist Neon Calypso, who you n tch on the Quibi doceri “<a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nightgowns</a>,” won the Next Drag All-Star petn there 2016. “That was my moment of like, ‘wow, I f here. This is a home space for me where I'm able to exprs really polil and important topics and everybody is receptive,’” she says.</p><p class="">From 2006 until the very end, you uld tch Donald Smh slgg drks, always happy to chat anyone up. “Oh, was like a homeg,” he says of walkg through the doors. “I felt like a homeg queen. Mache was the welg mtee. It tght people a lot about life. We ma you feel much better about yourself so you uld lift yourself up out of whatever you were gog through and then move on. We're gonna miss that.”</p><figure class="article-fig size-medium article-fig--pull-right"><a href="><picture><img class="size-medium article-image" src=" alt="Miranda Wrights (left) and Severy Stone at Mache. (Courty Helix Peb Photos)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">Miranda Wrights (left) and Severy Stone at Mache. (Courty Helix Peb Photos)</figptn></figure><p class="">Ask around about Mache and Ramrod and you’ll hear people mentng “home” a lot, which is maybe why s endg feels so raw for so many. The muny knew the buildg’s days were numbered sce late 2018 when word broke that Brish veloper Spe <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">secured the se for their first private dorm Boston</a>. Miranda Wrights, who worked on and off at Mache for 18 years, noted that the staff felt thgs were off for a while, which seemed to stem om a lack of tert om the top. “Why is the floor fallg apart and moldy? Why is the bathroom overflowg all the time?” she says she asked before quarante. “Bee they weren't gog to put any more money to bee they knew was closg but they weren't lettg other people know.”</p><p class="">But palism is palism. The owners of Mache and Ramrod — who didn’t want to ment for this story — own a bs, not a home, and nightlife plac aren’t a sh w. Doors officially closed on March 14, jt days before Gov. Charlie Baker’s shutdown orr, though few people even knew was the last night. Patrons and employe alike held out hope for a goodbye bash sometime after quarante. But then — like the lights flickg on at last ll — late July, the clubs’ manager Sean Caron <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted on Facebook</a> that nstctn perms for Spe’s new buildg had been approved. Constctn is slated to start sometime this fall and Mache and Ramrod will never open their doors aga.</p><blockquote class="article-pullquote breakout"><p class="article-pullquote-text">"Mache was the welg mtee. It tght people a lot about life."</p><ce class="article-pullquote-attributn">Donald Smh</ce></blockquote><p class="">There won’t be any big sendoff for the last gay bar and nightclub the historic gayborhood and ’s jt one chapter a story about people on the outskirts of a changg cy. “In the mid-1960s, Fenway was kd of an -between neighborhood. It wasn't downtown, and wasn't Brookle,” says Mark Krone, a board member of The History Project — a Boston-based LGBTQ history nonprof. “The number one thg about the Fenway was that jt wasn't very well off.”</p><p class="">Roomg ho among the to parts alerships on Boylston were home to mori, elrly people on fixed , and llege stunts. Queer stunts pecially stayed the area sce returng home to small towns meant a life back the closet. A 1977 <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Tim</a> piece about an arson-for-prof rg that vastated Fenway wh at least 30 spic fir scribed the neighborhood as havg “had a reputatn for street crime, dgs and prostutn and was once one of Boston’s more notor red‐light districts.”</p><figure class="article-fig size-large"><a href="><picture><img class="size-large article-image" src=" alt="A group celebratg at Mache. (Courty Donald Smh)" loadg="lazy"/></picture></a><figptn class="article-fig-ptn">A group celebratg at Mache. (Courty Donald Smh)</figptn></figure><p class="">But, oh, the gay scene.</p><p class="">Followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969, more gay bars opened throughout the untry and by the 1970s and 1980s, you uld h up multiple gay bars all wh a few blocks of each other Fenway. The dis-fueled, legendary four-floor bar lled the 1270 opened 1969, jt a few doors down om the spac Ramrod and Mache would eventually occupy at 1270 Boylston. “It was one of the few gay bars where you uld see Black people gog , and Black queer people, and straight people,” Krone says. The ‘80s add Ramrod to the mix, and for s, men barhopped and then cised the Fens for late-night hookups among the bh.</p><p class="">Thgs weren’t as happy as the rosy remiscenc might lead you to believe. The muny was wrtlg wh addictn and was nsumed by fear of HIV/AIDS. The Fens were home to hookups but also a number of murrs and asslts, cludg a guy who’d troll the area and beat men wh a hammer. And by the ‘90s, rents were already skyrocketg even before the Fenway Triangle luxury apartments and mixed-e space opened 2004. Blame the ter for the ath of gay spac Fenway and beyond if you want, but the real reason perhaps isn’t that tidy. El, an eveng gay bar for Black patrons, operated briefly Roxbury om 1970 to 1973. The 1270 closed 1988. Elsewhere the cy, Chaps closed 1999, the same year that cy raids agast the Safari Club bathhoe for health vlatns led to the spot’s shutterg. Now, the se of the Safari Club is a luxury apartment buildg. Axis spun out 2007. In 2018, Paradise Cambridge closed and ’s soon to be a new facily for Novartis, a pharmactil pany.</p><blockquote class="article-pullquote breakout"><p class="article-pullquote-text">“The gay bars Boston never have e back after AIDS.”</p><ce class="article-pullquote-attributn">Mark Krone</ce></blockquote><p class="">Bis gentrifitn, Krone has another theory about the cle of the gay bar Boston. “I've talked to a lot of olr people about this Boston. Unlike New York and other plac which bounced back pretty well after the height of the AIDS crisis, gay bars wise, Boston never did,” he says. “The gay bars Boston never have e back after AIDS.”</p><p class="">Wh the closg of the bars and clubs, Boston is losg more than jt physil spac. “The very people who stayed behd Boston the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, who ma really bee more of a world-class cy, are the on who are beg thrown out,” Krone says. “The queers and the mory people and artists are the people who kept [Boston] gog so that now the hedge-funrs and the btech people n ll home.”</p><blockquote class="article-pullquote breakout"><p class="article-pullquote-text">“The queers and the mory people and artists are the people who kept [Boston] gog so that now the hedge-funrs and the btech people n ll home.”</p><ce class="article-pullquote-attributn">Mark Krone</ce></blockquote><p class="">So what now? COVID-19 and the ensug quarante have thrown the world for a loop, but there are still gay spots town, like Club Café Back Bay and Blend Dorchter, where Miranda Wrights hosts viewg parti of shows the “RuPl’s Drag Race” anchise. The experience is much different sce she n’t perform live and teract wh patrons, so she shows pre-rerd clips and also <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">streams onle</a>. Vlencia found the onle platform for drag performance artists lled <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Serve Network</a> and she and Neon are buildg up a roster of shows every night of the week. They hope to brg shows to a new home space once quarante is over to keep the spir of Mache’s All-Star Mondays alive.</p><p class="">As for what will actually happen to that block on Boylston, plans have changed somewhat after Spe met wh the muny. Now, stead of one dorm buildg, the pany plans to build three smaller more nventnal apartments, wh one at the origal Boylston se jog stctur Audubon Circle and Charlgate Wt. The Boylston buildg will clu a 10,000-square-foot black-box style theater for The Theater Offensive, an anizatn that creat and prents art by, for and about queer and trans people of lor. Recently, The History Project filed a letter wh the cy to try to save that historic buildg on Boylston, but they’re not optimistic.</p><p class="">Smh, though, imag a happier future wh a fal farewell to the spot that so many loved. “The le would've been all the way down the block,” he says. “It would've been that amazg.”</p></sectn><sectn class="article-sectn--story-group article-sectn--centered Tags_article-sectn--tags__NOKiB"><a data-ec="Article Tags" data-el="Mic" data-ea="Click" class="article-tag" href="/news/tag/sounds">Mic</a></sectn></article><sectn class="article-sectn--story-group article-sectn--centered"><hear class="zone"><div class="zone-ner"><h2 class="zone-hdr">Related:</h2></div></hear><ul class="article-story-group"><li class="story-group-em"><a data-ec="Article Related Lks" data-el="‘Alleged Lbian Activi’ Brgs Back Boston’s Lost Dyke Bars" data-ea="Click" class="story-group-lk" href=">‘Alleged Lbian Activi’ Brgs Back Boston’s Lost Dyke Bars</a></li><li class="story-group-em"><a data-ec="Article Related Lks" data-el="Wh The End Of Dyke Night's Send Saturdays At Mache, An Era Com To A Close" data-ea="Click" class="story-group-lk" href=">Wh The End Of Dyke Night's Send Saturdays At Mache, An Era Com To A Close</a></li><li class="story-group-em"><a data-ec="Article Related Lks" data-el="Newly Acquired Queer Film Collectn At Harvard Film Archive Celebrat Butch Inty" data-ea="Click" class="story-group-lk" href=">Newly Acquired Queer Film Collectn At Harvard Film Archive Celebrat Butch Inty</a></li><li class="story-group-em"><a data-ec="Article Related Lks" data-el="Drag Queens Katya And Trixie Challenge Societal Expectatns In Their Gui To Morn Womanhood" data-ea="Click" class="story-group-lk" href=">Drag Queens Katya And Trixie Challenge Societal Expectatns In Their Gui To Morn Womanhood</a></li></ul></sectn><sectn class="article-sectn--story-group article-sectn--centered"><div class="ntributor has-photo"><div class="ntributor-profile"><figure class="ntributor-profile-em ntributor-photo"><a href="/si/staff/nathan-tavar"><picture><img src=" class="lazy rd-image" alt=""/></picture></a></figure><p class="ntributor-profile-em ntributor-b"><a class="ntributor-name" href="/si/staff/nathan-tavar">Nathan Tavar</a> <span class="ntributor-tle">Culture Wrer</span><br/>Nathan Tavar wr about culture for WBUR.</p><p class="ntributor-more"><a class="ntributor-lk ntributor-b-lk" href="/si/staff/nathan-tavar">More…</a></p></div></div></sectn><sectn class="sectn--bo sectn--bp"><div class="uw bp--rponsive"><div class="bp-ner"><p class="bp-label">Advertisement</p><div class="bp-ntent bp-ntent--centered"><div></div><div id="adslot-62387"></div></div></div></div></sectn><div></div><div class="global-d-ponents onmand--is-playg"><div class="global-player"><d preload="to"></d><div class="global-player-bar"><div class="global-player-bar-left"><button class="global-player-bar-ntrol"><i class="in-play in-play--global-player-bar in-play--psed"><span class="in-play-shape"><span class="in-label" data-note="for-screen-rears">Rume</span></span></i></button><div class="global-player-label global-player-label--live"><div class="global-player-channel"><span>Listen Live</span></div><div class="global-player-tle"><a class="global-player-label-lk" href="/">Loadg...</a></div></div></div><div class="global-player-bar-right"><div class="global-player-x"><svg class="in in-close" viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-labelledby="tle"><tle id="tle">Close

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Lookg for a place to celebrate Pri Month 2022? The bt of Boston’s gay nightlife scene n be found around the South End and Dorchter

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The bt of Boston’s gay bar scene n be found around the South End, Dorchter, and beyond. The nversatns about Boston’s gay nightlife scene often center around the closgs of cherished tablishments and rapid gentrifitn of once-gay neighborhoods.

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Sectns of Dorchter, once the epicenter of Boston’s Irish Catholic workg-class, are now miature gayborhoods — plete wh Sunday tea danc.

The Theater District is home to multiple clubs that regularly host big-name DJs and queens om RuPl’s Drag Race (season 15 wner Sasha Colby performed at Legacy this wter), and Back Bay remas filled wh gay-iendly neighborhood hnts. Wh a proud history of supportg gay rights and a large LGBTQ populatn, Boston is unsurprisgly one of the most clive metro areas the untry.

BT HANGOUT PLAC OF LGBTQ BOSTON. GAY BARS, CLUBS & RTRANTS

Explore the many historic and excg statns gay Boston, one of the most LGBT-iendly ci the Uned Stat. From s sential role the Amerin Revolutn to s distctn as the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, gay Boston has a host of attractns that is sure to please any LGBT history buff. The Old State Hoe, Try Church, and the Mm of Fe Arts are among the many world-class statns. Be sure not to miss s lively nightlife that clus mastay bars like Club Café and the Eagle. * bar gay boston *

It is te that gay people n feel fortable galavantg anywhere, om Eastie’s wateront to Somerville’s Davis Square. Still, there is a need for gay-specific spac, and a new generatn of social are ensurg that Boston remas a statn for LGBTQ people. Wh Pri Month gettg started, here is a look at the cy’s gay bar scene and all has to offer.

Legacy, n by Royale Entertament Group, has taken the mantle om Paradise as one of Boston’s most hedonistic gay nightlife statns.

Around for more than 30 years, Club Café is one of the olst gay bars Boston, but you wouldn’t be able to tell om the throngs of Gen Z-ers and lennials who wrap around Columb Avenue on Friday and Saturday nights to get si (pro tip: buy a yearly VIP pass to skip the le.

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Formerly an old-school vio bar — Trophy Room also ed to host weekly drag bnch — the space is still a gay favore.

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This upsle cktail lounge opened last fall on Tremont Street, where the Eagle, a gay dive bar staple nearly every major cy, ed to be loted. In this gay-iendly tablishment, the portns are big and the drks are stiff.

Wh s spac bar and numero high-tops, Harp and Bard has bee a statn for Dorchter gays who want to enjoy a lorful selectn of cktails or chow down on fort food favor like turkey tips and meatloaf. Brian Picci’s Dbar has been a gay favore for years (along wh s siblgs Boston Chops the South End and Dxave Back Bay). Dbar After Dark throws some of the most bacchanalian events on the Boston gay nightlife lendar, attractg hors of pleasure-seekers for s glow party and r Sunday outdoor tea dance.

Blend has bee a go-to spot for Dorchter gays lookg to dance the night away, or tch up wh iends their roomy bar area or outdoor pat. Blend is hostg a number of events for Pri, notably s “GAYHEM” dance party on Saturday and pop star drag bnch on Sunday. In fact, Massachetts was the first US state to legalize gay marriage back 2004.

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THIS NUMBER IS BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF ALL TRIPADVISOR REVIEWS FOR THIS PRODUCT THAT HAVE A BUBBLE RATG OF 4 OR HIGHER.HISTORIL TOURSOM $26.00 PER ADULT2023BEST SELLERFREEDOM TRAIL: SMALL GROUP TOUR OF REVOLUTNARY BOSTON667REMEND98% OF TRAVELERS REMEND THIS EXPERIENCE. THIS NUMBER IS BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF ALL TRIPADVISOR REVIEWS FOR THIS PRODUCT THAT HAVE A BUBBLE RATG OF 4 OR HIGHER.HISTORIL TOURSOM $39.50 $35.55 PER ADULTBEST SELLERBOSTON DUCK BOAT SIGHTSEEG CY TOUR WH CISE ALONG CHARL RIVER6,389REMEND91% OF TRAVELERS REMEND THIS EXPERIENCE. 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THIS NUMBER IS BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF ALL TRIPADVISOR REVIEWS FOR THIS PRODUCT THAT HAVE A BUBBLE RATG OF 4 OR HIGHER.HISTORIL TOURSOM $31.50 PER ADULTTHE AREA ADDRS530 TREMONT ST, BOSTON, MA 02116-6312NEIGHBORHOOD: SOUTH ENDSTROLL DOWN THE BETIFUL BROWNSTONE LED STREETS WHILE PTURG VIEWS OF BOSTON’S TALLT BUILDGS OM A DISTANCE. SOME OF BOSTON’S BT RTRANTS ARE STTERED AROUND THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. THERE ARE MANY GEMS TO BE FOUND, OM JAZZ CLUBS TO CLASSY BARS AND RTRANTS. IT IS ALSO HOME TO ART GALLERI, TERTG BOUTIQU, ARTSY STOR AND SOWA OPEN MARKET DURG THE SUMMER MONTHS. 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I DON’T KNOW THE LAD. LOVELY TABLISHMENT SEEMS. SHAME AS WAS THE FIRST PUB WE ME ACROSSREAD MOREWRTEN SEPTEMBER 4, 2021THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.AJVFBOSTON2 NTRIBUTNS2AIGLONOCT 2019 • SOLOAVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE! DEPRSG ATMOSPHERE. DIRTY TERR AND GLASSWARE. STKS LIKE AN ASHTRAY. RU OWNER. NOT AT ALL THE ZY DIVE BAR I HOPED MIGHT BE.READ MOREWRTEN OCTOBER 22, 2019THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.BHBOY322HELENSBURGH, UK67 NTRIBUTNS1EXTREMELY STAFFDEC 2017 • COUPLWELL HAVG READ PREV REVIEWS I ME WH AN OPEN MD. WHAT TO SAY. AFTER A LONG WALK OM THE CY DIDN’T EXPECT TO BE GREETED WH SARSM AND NTEMPT. WOULDN’T REMEND. READ MOREWRTEN DECEMBER 7, 2017THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.GERARDD782DUBL, IRELAND57 NTRIBUTNS1NOT WORTH THE EFFORTJUN 2016WENT THERE ON THREE SEPARATE NIGHTS. EVEN THE STAFF WOULD MAKE YOU WANT TO LEAVE AFTER FIVE MUT. LIKE A PLACE JT TICKG OVER WAG FOR A GOOD OFFER TO SELL OUT. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.READ MOREWRTEN JULY 3, 2016THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.BMFOODYGAYSOLTON, UK135 NTRIBUTNS4FIRST REVIEW SCE 2012!?!MAY 2015 • FRIENDSSO THE EAGLE DO STILL EXIST! IT'S QUE LOW KEY, WH JT A STONE EAGLE ABOVE THE DOOR (NO SIGN). IT IS MOST FELY A GAY BAR SO BE SURE YOU GO WH THAT MD (REFERENCE TO EARLIER REVIEWS). IT WAS AD FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT, WHICH WAS DISAPPOTG. THE BAR TENR CHATTED TO AND WE STAYED FOR A FEW BEERS. IT WAS QUE NICE AS THE BAR WE HAD LEFT WAS BY AND LOUD BUT THIS PLACE WAS CHILLED OUT. GO ALONG AND SUPPORT THIS PLACE IF YOU ARE A BOSTON. IT'S PART OF THE CY'S LGBT HERAGE. READ MOREWRTEN MAY 31, 2015THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.PIERRE FBAR HARBOR, ME22 NTRIBUTNS0COULDN'T FD A LONG WALK THE LD AND LOOKS LIKE THE PLACE DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE, WE ULD NOT FD . AT THE GIVEN ADDRS, THERE IS A HUGE, CLEAN LOBBY THAT LOOKS LIKE AN ART GALLERY. READ MOREWRTEN DECEMBER 2, 2012THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.DARBYRWMANCHTER, UK83 NTRIBUTNS0GREAT VALUE DRKS AND GREAT BARTENRVISG BOSTON OM UK WE WENT TO THE EAGLE. THE DRKS ARE VERY REASONABLY PRICED AND JACK THE BARTENR WAS GREAT ENTERTAMENT. WOULD REMEND.READ MOREWRTEN OCTOBER 6, 2012THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.GEE LCY694 NTRIBUTNS0THE EAGLE HAS SOME CHARACTERS WORKG THE BAR.WE ME HERE AND WE WERE THE ONLY CTOMERS ON A SUNDAY EVENG THIS HOLE THE WALL. THE BARTENR WILL CHAT WH YOU WH A B OF ATTU. THERE IS ONLY A MEN'S RTROOM. UNPRETENT, DOWN TO EARTH, NO NONSENSE, NOT A TRENDY PLACE.READ MOREWRTEN JULY 14, 2010THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.GENEVEVE3BOSTON1 NTRIBUTN7BEWARE THE CROTCH GRABSMY BOYIEND AND I WENT TO THE EAGLE, FULL WELL KNOWG WAS A GAY BAR, AND AS WE LIVE VERY CLOSE, WE WERE EXCED TO MEET SOME OF THE LOL MEN AND WOMEN, PECIALLY AS WE BOTH HAVE MANY GAY IENDS. OUR ENTRANCE WAS FE, WE ORRED BEER, PLAYED SOME POOL, AND SAT FOR A WHILE. WE RECEIVED A FEW LOOKS, BUT NOTHG TOO NOTICEABLE. THERE WAS ONE GUY WHO HAD HIS EYE ON MY BOYIEND FOR MUCH OF OUR TIME, BUT WE FIGURED WH KISSG OM TIME TO TIME AND GENERAL MANNERISMS THAT WOULD BE A NON-ISSUE. WRONG. UPON LEAVG, WE HAD TO WALK PAST THIS MAN WHO PROCEED TO GRAB MY BOYIEND'S CROTCH. HE QUICKLY SWAYED AWAY AND SAID A QUICK "NO, SORRY" TO THE GENTLEMAN, BUT J, WHY SHOULD ONE EXPECT TO BE ACSTED JT BEE ONE IS A MAN A GAY BAR? I'M SURE EVERYONE ULD DO WH AT LEAST A "HELLO, HOW ARE YOU" BEFORE THE CROTCH GRAB TO SPE OUT THE SUATN, P. IF YOU WERE THERE WH A WOMAN. OTHER THAN PATRON NS, THE PLACE HAS A FUNKY DIVE-ISH ATMOSPHERE AND A LOT OF DARKNS AND WE WENT NO WHERE NEAR THE BATHROOM. GENERAL THOUGHTS: GO FOR A NAMELS FACELS SEXUAL ADVANCE OR MORE, BUT IF YOU HAVE SELF-RPECT OF ANY SORT, STEER CLEAR.READ MOREWRTEN SEPTEMBER 3, 2006THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. 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