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Contents:

• THE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO BOSTON: THE BT GAY BARS, DRAG EVENTS AND MORE
• BOSTON'S BT GAY BARS
• THE BEST BOSTON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BOSTON
• GAY BOSTON
• BOSTON GAY MAP
• WHEN DID BOSTON’S GAY SCENE GET SO STRAIGHT?

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

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Not sure what the name was, but I was told there ed to be a bar or der where gay men equented back the 70s and 80s. Wh the 24-hour ders and Chatown nearby, one would have thought that gay nightlife would thrive... Okay, 's not a bar or club, but was perhaps the most popular, longt-survivg gay bookstore Boston.

Another short-lived bar on Washgton Street Downtown Crossg that featured gay night (Wedndays).

Saturday morngs had a mixed crowd, and Sunday morngs were all-gay. The Loft has been closed for almost ten years now, but now RISE has returned (after a fire that closed the club for over a year) as the after-hours hot spot for gay club-goers. "Not sure what the name was, but I was told there ed to be a bar or der where gay men equented back the 70s and 80s.

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I remember standg ont of the Commons, lookg left and right for anyone I knew who might see me, then nng across Boylston to enter the gay world. I've done some rearch but am lookg for someone who might be open to talkg to me about their rellectns of gay bars and bath hoe/s Boston (C) 1972.

Memori of all the different gay bars Boston to what 2 or 3 left today?

Fire officials yterday had not termed what ed a two-alarm fire at a gay bath hoe the fancial district Monday night. In fact, Massachetts was the first US state to legalize gay marriage back 2004. To this day, Boston remas one of Ameri’s most LGBTIQ+ iendly ci and has a large queer muny actively shapg the cy's future, ensurg remas one of the world’s foremost gay statns for generatns to e.

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Loted a small neighborhood that’s smooshed between the Theater District and Chatown, Jacqu is Boston’s olst operatg gay bar and the cy’s premier tablishment for drag shows. The space is a rtrant durg the early eveng hours and is popular amongst the lols, both gay and straight. It’s filled wh an endls array of gay bars and clubs, and tons of LGBTIQ+-owned rtrants, ns, B&Bs, and more.

The Boston LbiGay Urban Foundatn is another group that has ntued to put on queer events and offer support to lols after the dissolutn of Boston Pri. The bt of Boston’s gay bar scene n be found around the South End, Dorchter, and beyond.

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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.

WHEN DID BOSTON’S GAY SCENE GET SO STRAIGHT?

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. 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.