What’s your favore gay or LGBTQ-iendly sports bar? - Outsports

Contents:

• WHAT’S YOUR FAVORE GAY OR LGBTQ-IENDLY SPORTS BAR?
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• 10 GAY FRIENDLY RTRANTS ATLANTA
• IN ‘GAY BAR,’ TIME-HOPPG SNAPSHOTS OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE
• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• 10 BT GAY BARS METRO PHOENIX
• 'IN FDG EACH OTHER WE STARTED VELOPG POWER': A LOOK AT MIDWT’S LARGT GAY BAR

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORE GAY OR LGBTQ-IENDLY SPORTS BAR?

As people look to gather aga g out of the COVID-19 panmic, Outsports will be highlightg and celebratg gay and LGBTQ-iendly sports bars.

C., or Gym Sportsbar New York — are specifilly signed for gay and LGBTQ sports fans.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

So share wh the ments below where you like to spend your time watchg gam wh your gay and LGBTQ iends!

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

All of the bars and clubs listed here were submted as "favore lol bar" by Los Angelenos who took the Great Gay Bar Survey (which turn provid the basis for our 200 Greatt Gay Bars List). THE ABBEY: Probably the bt known gay bar all of La-La Land, this massive rtrant and bar has attracted a diverse crowd of celebs, cludg Mary J. FUBAR: Mcl and hairy chts are often on display but not required at this Wt Hollywood hotspot that boasts 's "not your father's gay bar.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

" All you need is a good attu and an appete for good old-fashned gay fun. GYM BAR: LA's first official gay sports bar, Gym Bar attracts the boys who pch, tch, and those who e by to see the game get played.

REVOLVER: LA's glz and glam are on full display at this vio bar, but so too is unabashed gay fun, cludg well-armed go-go boys and a staff that many regulars scribe as the most iendly town. The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that. The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world.

Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St. The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic. The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur.

10 GAY FRIENDLY RTRANTS ATLANTA

—Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli. —Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars. It’s gay Cheers.

It feels like everythg a gay bar should be. When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce. —Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic?

IN ‘GAY BAR,’ TIME-HOPPG SNAPSHOTS OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE

It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria. It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood. It brought the gay and straight muni together the ‘90s wh clever baret programmg.

But perhaps most signifintly, gave the gay muny of Boston somethg sperately need: visibily.

While other gay bars of the time were basements or board up, Club Cafe faced by Columb Avenue wh floor to ceilg wdows. Big Chicks serv a diverse crowd— ’s young, ’s old, ’s one of the only plac you’ll see gay men and lbians together! —Dave HolmCourtyChigo: Carol’s Pub Not every gay bar is explicly a gay bar.

THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI

They jt have major gay vib and lots of queer upl makg out the bathroom.

10 BT GAY BARS METRO PHOENIX

The legendary hoeband, Diamondback, has a 25, 000-song repertoire and a boot llectn that uld make a gay wboy cry. While you won’t fd any Pri flags at Farraguts, you will undoubtedly hear Cele Dn and Melissa Etheri blarg om the bar’s dty, old jebox and, hontly, isn’t that jt as gay? CourtyDallas: Round-Up SaloonEqual parts wboy boots and dis ball, Round Up Saloon opened 42 years ago Dallas as a gay untry wtern dance hall.

Thanks to Perez-Gallardo and their team, gay people who love the outdoors (most lbians) now have a iendly place to unwd after a hike. Billed as Wt Virgia's olst gay bar, the venue regularly brgs some of the biggt queer performg artists the game right now.

Live out your Brokeback Mounta fantasi at this verno club, where wboy stum are not nsired drag, and le dancg is not an explic exprsn of homophobia. The lol gay dart league meets here, people gather to watch sports (!

'IN FDG EACH OTHER WE STARTED VELOPG POWER': A LOOK AT MIDWT’S LARGT GAY BAR

A gay gatherg spot sce 1939, and gay bar sce 1963, and the Bar Complex sce the 80s, s unassumg exterr beli a triple-threat treat of lounge, performance space, and a mirrored dance club reportedly moled after Stud 54. ) The glorly lively bar and rtrant scene is enhanced by a black box theater downstairs, where farcil plays, lbian standup, and gay dance troup reign. Honey’s is sentially a sexy, gay speakeasy wh a DJ booth where queers of all strip n dance their hearts out until 2 am.

TwistWhat you want om a gay club, if you ask , is optns. Jt a uple of blocks om the beach, Twist brgs the whole breadth of the Miami gay world together to dance and flirt and keep movg. CourtyIndianapolis: English IvyEnglish Ivy advertis self as an “LGBTQ+-enthed” “gay-therg place” and that is not an overstatement.

If you want to get away om the typil scene at fellow gay bars Olly’s and Gregs Our Place, English Ivy is an ial place to meet iends: mature enough for a proper Ladi Lunch (or bnch or dner.