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Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS BOSTON
• BOSTON GAY SPORTS BAR — ‘HOME AWAY OM HOME’ FOR EX-MLB UMP AND A MUNY — ON THE ROP
• BOSTON GAY SPORTS BAR — ‘HOME AWAY OM HOME’ FOR EX-MLB UMP AND A MUNY — ON THE ROP
• BOSTON GAY SPORTS BAR — ‘HOME AWAY OM HOME’ FOR EX-MLB UMP AND A MUNY — ON THE ROP
• THE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO BOSTON: THE BT GAY BARS, DRAG EVENTS AND MORE
• BOSTON'S BT GAY BARS
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

THE BT GAY BARS BOSTON

The Red Sox recently gave a start to a pcher who jt two years ago rolled out a homophobic tweet. Suffice to say, Major League Baseball’s celebratn of Pri Month hasn’t been whout s Boston’s queer sports fans now have more important thgs to worry about: They might be losg their beloved gay sports an age when datg apps have ma so that old-fashned, big-cy gay bars are gog the way of daily newspapers and mom-and-pop neighborhood nvenience stor, Cathedral Statn, loted the cy’s South End, fac an uncerta future. “The future of gay bars, LGBT bars, whatever you want to ll them, they’ll have to be smaller plac that hold 100 people, 120 people, where you n get a lease.

Nobody’s gog to pay $5 ln to buy a piece of property to own a gay bar. While not technilly a gay bar, ’s a lively, gay-iendly tablishment that’s volved Boston’s LGBTQ+ muny, cludg s sponsorship of the annual Chandler Street Block ’s not jt the lol yokels who fell love wh Frz/Cathedral Statn.

Take, for stance, Dale Stt, a native of Portland, Ore., who ma headl 2014 when he beme the first active Major League Baseball umpire to e out as gay. “That was pretty surreal for me … stg a gay bar watchg myself do a plate game on televisn, ” said Dale Stt, who was the first active major-league umpire to e out as gay.

BOSTON GAY SPORTS BAR — ‘HOME AWAY OM HOME’ FOR EX-MLB UMP AND A MUNY — ON THE ROP

I remember there was another gay bar nearby, a vio bar, that was up over a rtrant. That was pretty surreal for me, pecially sce was early my reer and I’m tryg to make sure Major League Baseball don’t know I’m gay. And there I am, stg a gay bar watchg myself do a plate game on televisn.

BOSTON GAY SPORTS BAR — ‘HOME AWAY OM HOME’ FOR EX-MLB UMP AND A MUNY — ON THE ROP

Nothg says Boston sports like a team photo of three of the cy’s all-time bartenrs clu Artie Oliver and Rob Mannke, who are themselv legends that they’ve been servg suds at var Boston gay bars for s. The reason I me out is bee I found a gay sports league, and Cathedral Statn, and before that Frz, has been a great supporter of all the gay sports leagu for years and ’s been the place where the jocks go hang out.

There are other gay bars that are about lookg cute or beg able to dance or to pick up guys. Women dot the crowd at Cathedral on many nights, and ’s not unmon for a regular to brg along a straight buddy or two or don’t help that the South End, once a thrivg gay ghetto, is now a gentrified neighborhood of high-priced ndos and fancy rtrants.

BOSTON GAY SPORTS BAR — ‘HOME AWAY OM HOME’ FOR EX-MLB UMP AND A MUNY — ON THE ROP

What do help is Cathedral Statn’s richly served reputatn as Boston’s “Gay Cheers, ” the place where everybody knows your name. It’s also a place where everyone knows your game, as what team you play for the cy’s many gay sports leagu, om the Beantown Softball League and Tennis4All to the FLAG (Friends, Lbians And Gays) Flag Football League and the Cambridge Boston Volleyball Associatn. “I e here bee beg around fellow sports fans who happen to be gay adds to the sense of muny and belongg, ” said Marc Davo, 57, director of velopment and munitns for Casa Myrna, a nonprof which provis support for people impacted by domtic vlence.

He was joed by Frattura and Sly Ward, 65, a former Frz/Cathedral employee who is a chef at Hale Barnard Hoe, which provis support servic for the elrly, and also vice print of Boston Alliance of Gay Sports (BAGS). It’s a place where you’re 100 percent fortable if you’re gay.

Stt by then was feelg sufficiently fortable his gay sho that one night, after dog a Sox game at Fenway, he ved fellow umpir Ron Kulpa and Dan Iassogna to jo him for a few beers at they stepped si, Kulpa, a man not burned wh filters, looked around and said, “Hey, where are all the women? ”In Kulpa’s view, samplg a gay sports bar back then the pany of a gay umpire was no big al. The bt of Boston’s gay bar scene n be found around the South End, Dorchter, and beyond.

THE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO BOSTON: THE BT GAY BARS, DRAG EVENTS AND MORE

The nversatns about Boston’s gay nightlife scene often center around the closgs of cherished tablishments and rapid gentrifitn of once-gay neighborhoods.

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.

It is te that gay people n feel fortable galavantg anywhere, om Eastie’s wateront to Somerville’s Davis Square.

BOSTON'S BT GAY BARS

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

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

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.