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Contents:
- THE PANMIC IS HURTG GAY AND LBIAN BARS. THE NSEQUENC FOR THE MUNY ULD BE VASTATG
- THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.
- WHY GAY BARS ARE DISAPPEARG ACROSS AMERI
- GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.
- ‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN
- WHAT DO TOWN’S CLOSG MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF GAY NIGHTLIFE D.C.?
- 'WE'LL DIE': GAY BARS WORLDWI SCRAMBLE TO AVERT RONAVIS LLAPSE
- THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS'S OLST GAY BAR, IS CLOSG S DOORS DUE TO THE RONAVIS PANMIC
- LTLE JIM’S, THE FIRST GAY BAR IN BOYSTOWN, CLOSG FOR GOOD
- BOYLE HEIGHTS GAY BAR EL PLACE IS CLOSG BUT IT'S NOT THE END FOR THIS PARTY
THE PANMIC IS HURTG GAY AND LBIAN BARS. THE NSEQUENC FOR THE MUNY ULD BE VASTATG
Like other small bs across the Uned Stat, gay bars have been h hard by the ronavis panmic, that that hurts the muni they serve. * gay bars closing down *
Pike and McDaniel know openg a bar durg a panmic may be risky, but they say they’ve learned one thg om years of visg and workg other queer tablishments: If they want to survive, they first have to build a better and more clive than a barThe gay bar was long the ma, and sometim only, space where queer people uld gather.
About 200 of those tered to, like Hershee Bar Norfolk, opened when their stat had laws that prohibed bar owners om employg gay people or creatg gatherg spots for them.
THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.
Gay bars survived the AIDS crisis, opprsn and recsns, but the panmic is drivg bars out of bs natnwi, pecially those terg to people of lor. * gay bars closing down *
She mentored foster children whose parents had kicked them out, and every Thanksgivg, she threw a dner for people whose fai didn’t accept 1987, Norfolk had four or five gay bars, and the number natnwi peaked at more than 1, 700.
Those servg lbians and people of lor were h all gay bar listgs cled by 37 percent between 2007 and 2019, the number of queer bars servg people of lor cled by 59 percent, and bars for lbians cled by 52 percent, Mattson Francis lost the Lexgton Club, and Rubyu Jungle shut s doors New Orleans.
WHY GAY BARS ARE DISAPPEARG ACROSS AMERI
From pulsatg gay superclubs to basement drag barets and dimly-l lbian bars, the new ronavis has shuttered LGBT+ nightlife venu worldwi, wh some already forced to close permanently while others are scramblg to avoid the same fate. * gay bars closing down *
“Gay bars were never jt hookup plac, but they were plac to meet other LGBTQ+ people, and now that you n meet them om your bedroom or while you’re wag for the b, that has taken away some of gay bars’ monopoly on beg the place where you fd other LGBTQ+ folks, ” he bars are also no longer the only place some queer people, pecially Whe and cisgenr men, feel safe.
Pike did secury for Nellie’s Sports Bar, and McDaniel bartend at APEX, Cobalt and other gay bars before workg alongsi Pike at A League of Her Own (ALOHO) Adams was one of jt 21 lbian bars left the untry when Pike and McDaniel worked there, but durg the early days of the ronavis panmic, the uple cid they wanted to create a new spot, one they owned. As You Are won’t have secury guards; stead, Pike is trag a fleet of “safety managers” — a change Pike hop will attract applints who are ls ncerned wh actg tough and more terted creatg a safe atmosphere for and McDaniel know that some people thk the gay bar era is over, that spac like theirs are no longer need, but people who say that tend to have more privilege, McDaniel said. “My experience of tryg to fd safe space here the Stat, and parg wh trips back to vis fay Mexi, has probably rmed my fervor for creatg a space where you are able to jt exist regardls of how or where you were born, who you want to love and how you intify, ” Castellanos, the owner of Hershee Bar Norfolk, nsirs herself an “old-school gay girl, ” but she’s rootg for the next generatn of queer bar owners.
GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.
* gay bars closing down *
And Yenia Gaan’s Saturday “Taboo Nights” was billed as the bt mil show downtown Los New Jalis Bar weled people jt as they were — homosexual, transgeneros, s papel, drsed as vaqueros and old enough to feel out of place dancg to hoe mic Wt Hollywood. ’s only queer-foced ffee shop; Rage nightclub Wt Hollywood; San Francis’s olst gay bar, The Stud; Ltle Jim’s, the send-olst gay bar cle of gay bars started well before the panmic, part bee creased acceptance of queer people has lsened the need for bars as plac of refuge.
‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN
“The irony is that jt as gay bars have bee more clive, they’re startg to go away, ” he owners of Jalis are stgglg to ensure their closure isn’t Rosa Garcia, 53, started as a bartenr there 1992.
WHAT DO TOWN’S CLOSG MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF GAY NIGHTLIFE D.C.?
Many blame datg apps as the digal accs to potential partners obviat the need for -real-life flirtg and, as Stafford not on this week’s episo of the Eater Upsell podst, “People n make any space through the apps a gay bar, a gay club, and you kd of now unrstand that gay people are everywhere. Also changg gay bars as we know them across the untry: gentrifitn and a prsure to ter to straight dienc and sell them ritur of what pop culture says a gay bar should be.
'WE'LL DIE': GAY BARS WORLDWI SCRAMBLE TO AVERT RONAVIS LLAPSE
Upsell -host Dan Geneen and I spoke wh Stafford to discs the lnch of an Eater documentary he starred lled Boystown, which he explor the changg hospaly dtry Ameri’s olst gayborhood. Part of the change is posive, that gay liftyle and culture is so readily accepted now, so part of the mastream, that the gay muny don’t need rved out spac orr to feel safe, meet one another, or be themselv. “As the thgs change, and the spac bee more sanized, and more people go there jt to explore, and ’s kd of voyristic, you feel that you’re losg that sense of omniprence of gayns that ed to feel like a protectn, ” says Stafford.
The only gay bar Arlgton, Tex., has shuttered due to the 1851 Club, which for s operated as a Cheers-style waterg hole for the lol LGBTQ+ muny, announced the sad news to s patrons a January 2021 Facebook post. Oil Can Harry's has had s last gay untry-wtern bar, which has provid le-dancg and a waterg hole for the LGBTQ+ muny Los Angel's Stud Cy neighborhood for 52 years, was sold December to a new owner who plans to nvert to a venue wh jazz mic, acrdg to owner John a Monday Facebook post, Fagan revealed that the landlord of the buildg, Monty Overstreet, had ma the sale.
THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS'S OLST GAY BAR, IS CLOSG S DOORS DUE TO THE RONAVIS PANMIC
The Atlanta Eagle has end s more-than-30-year flight midtown Richard Ramey announced that the gay bar would be vatg s longterm lotn at Ponce De Leon Avenue November 2020.
Although no reason was given the post, the popular dive bar was the fourth gay bar after Rage, Flamg Saddl, and Gym Bar to shutter Wt Hollywood durg the COVID-19 panmic, which has forced all Los Angel bars that nnot nvert to rtrants wh outdoor dg to cease Coast was also the third closed WeHo gay bar to have had Monte Overstreet as a landlord.
LTLE JIM’S, THE FIRST GAY BAR IN BOYSTOWN, CLOSG FOR GOOD
Except for a brief wdow, bars Wt Hollywood had been closed to prevent the spread of the Robert Maghame and Saeed Sattari opened the gay bar on Santa Moni Boulevard 1983, reports Wehoville.
BOYLE HEIGHTS GAY BAR EL PLACE IS CLOSG BUT IT'S NOT THE END FOR THIS PARTY
Sadly, there will be no more socializg at the Albuquerque Social New Mexi gay club, known to lols as the "SOCH, " operated for nearly four s before shutterg Augt 2020 due to fancial issu tied to bar had first opened as The Heights the 70s before takg on the Albuquerque Social Club name 1983.