Jane Lynch, Alexanr Wang, Rosie O’Donnell and others reflect on what gay bars mean to them, the aftermath of the shootg Orlando, Fla.
Contents:
- ‘MY FIRST GAY BAR’: RACHEL MADDOW, ANDY COHEN AND OTHERS SHARE THEIR COMG-OUT STORI
- 'WE DON'T DO GAY': ANRSON ALDRICH FATHER SHOCKG REACTN TO SHOOTG
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
- ANRSON GAY PUB & SHOW BAR
- THE BEST COASTAL SOUTH CAROLA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS COASTAL SOUTH CAROLA
- GAYT PLAC IN SOUTH CAROLA FOR 2020
- GAYT PLAC IN INDIANA FOR 2020
‘MY FIRST GAY BAR’: RACHEL MADDOW, ANDY COHEN AND OTHERS SHARE THEIR COMG-OUT STORI
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Christian Hansen for The New York TimJune 22, 2016For generatns of gays and lbians, pecially those for whom walkg to the sometime secret and darkened doorway of one was often the first step the g-out procs, gay bars have long held a signifint place their personal was never more apparent than the days followg the mass shootgs at Pulse, the gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., which 49 patrons lost their liv, and which prompted many to rell the nights they had spent siar settgs, and the sense of muny they found there. “Every gay man Ameri remembers the first time they went to a gay bar and how they felt. ”“I don’t want to sound like I’m speakg for the gay muny, ” said Mr.
'WE DON'T DO GAY': ANRSON ALDRICH FATHER SHOCKG REACTN TO SHOOTG
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”Below, some other proment gays and lbians rell what gay bars meant to them as they began to embrace their sexualy, some eagerly and some nervoly. Charl Syk/Invisn, via Associated PrsAndy Cohen Televisn host and producerI ed to sneak away om my straight iends at Boston Universy and go to Chaps (gay bars often have hypermascule nam) Boston’s Back Bay. Pre-ter, gay bars were tegral our social velopment.
They were an pe om the (often uniendly) outsi world, packed every night of the week, and everyone si was a Heisler/The New York TimLarry Kramer Playwright, thor and activistIn 1953, gay bars were sry. I thought I was the only gay man there. He’d e all the way om Hartford to fd his gay was my g out at Yale.
It would still be a bunch of years before gay bars would start beg ls sry, and a lot of Beck/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagJane Lynch ActrsThe first gay bar I ever went to was the Cubbyhole when was on Hudson Street the Wt Village. Brendan Hoffman/Getty ImagRachel Maddow Host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” The first time I went to a gay bar was 1990, thanks to a fairly terrible fake ID that I bought for $25. That fake ID was my lifele for years bee got me to the only plac where I uld fd the gay muny that I so wanted to be part of.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
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Gay bars and clubs were the alpha and the omega for me then.
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Charl Syk/Associated PrsBilly Eichner Actor and edianMy first gay bar New York was the Duplex, bee was kd of a soft lnch to the gay world. ” That may have been my first gay bar over all.
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I went to school at Northwtern and lived wh a bunch of gay guys, and we would go out to Boystown, the big strip of gay bars Chigo. There was one lled Charlie’s Chigo, which was a gay untry-and-wtern bar.
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I was, like, I’m gay, but I’m not to this.
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Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Tim Honey DijonPerformerRialto Tap Chigo was the first black gay bar I went to, and what I really remember was the cracked tile dance floor. We were both gay newbi. There was only one gay club that we knew of.