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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

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

”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.

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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. Gay bars and clubs were the alpha and the omega for me then. 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.

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” That may have been my first gay bar over all. 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.

I was, like, I’m gay, but I’m not to this. 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.

THE BEST COASTAL SOUTH CAROLA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS COASTAL SOUTH CAROLA

From that day on, “bakery” was our word for gay Hawthorne/Getty ImagKeh BoykBroadster and thorOn a Sunday night July 1991, at a sprawlg plex lled Tracks the District of Columbia, I found thoands of young black gay men and lbians.

At tim, as I walked around the three dance floors, seemed as though everyone Washgton was gay. But here, unlike the whe gay clubs, the patrons appreciated, and fact reveled , black bety. For the first time my life, I felt not only siro of others but sirable to them as Counts/Getty ImagAlison BechlCartoonist, thor of the graphic memoir “Fun Home” My first gay bar was Satan’s, Akron, Oh.

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But that night, the large mixed crowd (there weren’t enough gay people to support a separate club for women), I experienced the profound existential relief, for once, of not beg the only queer. There was a lot of route anti-gay hostily on the street.

” I remember the closeted aterny boys, who had jt dropped their dat at the sorory hoe — and the girls who loved to sp and gyrate on the dance floor, earng the attentn of adorg gay boys. Christopher Gregory for The New York TimPl RudnickAuthor and playwrightWhen I was a teenage apprentice summer stock, I went to my first gay bar suburban Connecticut. Matthew Eisman/Getty ImagAndrew SolomonAuthor, “The Noonday Demon, ” “Far & Away”There were two gay bars the neighborhood where I grew up.

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But ntrary to so many narrativ of relief at fdg a gay ntext, my ial experience was primarily of anxiety, bee to be where the least acceptable aspect of myself was the explic topic ma me feel more naked than the go-go boys. Ease and digny, however, had seemed patible wh my gayns until my sweaty June bar vis set me on a new path, one that much later led me to marryg my hband, havg our children, and beg an activist for L. I’m at my lol gay waterg hole, the No Name (a.

It was about gay empowerment, was about not gettg msed wh and was about the importance of addrsg an existential crisis head on. There, so we would go, and this time was me and my six iends — tryg to play ol as much as we Counts/Getty ImagJon Rob BazPlaywright and producerIt was the Roosterfish, a dgy ntil gay bar Venice Beach Los Angel. I went to stupidly try and fd a gay surfer who loved Didn, Ed Rcha and Tete.