Boston’s Bt Gay Bars and Nightclubs - Eater Boston

Contents:

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

WHEN DID BOSTON’S GAY SCENE GET SO STRAIGHT?

I am om the Philalphia area, where we have a thrivg gay scene (also known as Gayborhood). A lot of gay/l/queer bars one area?

Boston gay club remendatns. The clubs at home that I’m ed to are very edm gay clubs and i would prefer somethg wh that te clubbg vibe.

The cy’s gay bars are disappearg, the sgl actn is now onle, and married upl keep headg for the ’burbs. Illtratn by Nigel BuchananGay bars have given me que an tn. We didn’t know Buzz was a gay club, but the wrhg bare torsos, smell of sexed-up sweat, and anthemic mic quickly clued .

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

More than anythg else, that’s what Boston’s gay bars reprented to me. I began to appreciate their stori, and stopped takg Boston’s scene for granted—cludg s gay bars. Over the years, though, one club after another has shuttered—and lol gays gmble that the scene simply isn’t what ed to for good reason: There were at least 20 known gay bars Boston 1977, acrdg to Andrew Elr, chair of the History Project, a nonprof that archiv documents, photos, oral histori, and ephemera related to Boston’s LGBT history.

BOSTON GAY MAP

Ours was the send state to add sexual orientatn to s anti-discrimatn statute ( 1989), and the first to legalize gay marriage ( 2004).

THE BT GAY BARS BOSTON

Our former state Senate print, Stan Rosenberg, is gay, as is Attorney General Mra Healey.