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• FOR PRI MONTH AND BEYOND, HERE ARE 10 SENTIAL GAY BARS PHOENIX AND STTSDALE
• 10 BT GAY BARS PHOENIX
•  ARIZONA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAY EATS: 9 LGBTQ RTRANTS SERVG UP DELECTABLE CULARY DELIGHTS PHOENIX, ARIZONA
• 10 BT GAY BARS METRO PHOENIX
• AZ GAY BARS
• PAT O'S BUNKHOE SALOONPHOENIXMENUHOTELSGAY BARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPPAT O'S BUNKHOE SALOON
• PHOENIX GAY MAP
• CHARLIE'SPHOENIXMENUHOTELSGAY BARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPCHARLIE'S
• THIS PHOENIX SPOT IS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE US — EVEN THOUGH 'S NOT A GAY BAR
• GAY EATS: 9 LGBTQ RTRANTS SERVG UP DELECTABLE CULARY DELIGHTS PHOENIX, ARIZONA

FOR PRI MONTH AND BEYOND, HERE ARE 10 SENTIAL GAY BARS PHOENIX AND STTSDALE

The one thg all the spots on this list have mon: They ve ctomers to e as they 's somethg for everyone at the 10 sential metro Phoenix gay bars. 602-248-8559, 'It's about feelg weled':How gay youth fd belongg Phoenix's ballroom sceneAnvilAnvil, a bar loted on Thomas Road east of 24th Street, dubs self a "Leather and Levi" bar and wel those who want to don their gear and those who don't, jt the same. 602-264-5307, Towne SaloonKnown as the olst gay bar metro Phoenix, Nu Towne Saloon fds s home across the street om the stacked layers of the Tovrea Castle.

BarMidtown Phoenix neighborhood the Melrose District may be packed wh gay bars, but they don't all ter to the dus. Lote your favore pair of dancg sho and get your sgl ready, bee your gui to metro Phoenix's bt gay bars is here. From the Melrose District to Old Town Sttsdale, here are 10 of the bt gay bars the Valley.

The qutsential gay night club the Valley, Charlie’s Phoenix has all: go-go boys, dance lsons, nightly DJs, karaoke battl, and r drag shows like High Heels & Halos and Saturday Unr the Stars. This new gay nightclub is open om 4 p. This classic central Phoenix gay club has been around sce 1977, and is open daily om 6 a.

10 BT GAY BARS PHOENIX

Read on for more of Phoenix's bt gay nightlife spots. Jo as we explore the excg dg scene one of the most gay-iendly ci the USA. It’s part gay bar and part rtrant.

Charlie’s is one of Pheonix’s most popular gay bars.

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Indtry PHX don’t nsir self a gay bar, stead, they ll themselv a “queer space” that’s open and welg of everyone.

Sazerac Phoenix | 821 N 2nd StBlue Marti Lounge | 5455 E High StValley Bar | 130 N Central AveThe Rock | 4129 N 7th AveBt Gay Bars PhoenixSiBar | 701 W McDowell RdBter & Twisted Cocktail Parlour | 1 W Jefferson StThe Whg Pig Downtown | 201 E Washgton St #104Melda’s Alley | Renaissance Phoenix, 50 E Adams StCornish Pasty Co. Are you lookg for the bt gay bars wh drag shows Phoenix? View our list of the bt gay bars Phoenix.

Bt Gay Bars Phoenix. Whether you're gay, straight, lbian, or transgenr, the Valley has a growg number of plac for drag queens to shake , karaoke lovers to sg , and soakg wet go-go dancers to, well, show .

GAY EATS: 9 LGBTQ RTRANTS SERVG UP DELECTABLE CULARY DELIGHTS PHOENIX, ARIZONA

Here are our 10 favore gay bars metro Phoenix. This zy ltle gay bar is jam-packed wh weekly events cludg ee poker on Mondays, Wednday night karaoke, Thursday unrwear parti, Friday night go-go dancers, and alternatg Saturday performanc by queens Olivia Garns and Maraya Jordan (wh 50-cent beer refills). Voted #1 Gay Bar Phoenix Arizona, by our ctomers.

FLEX Spas Phoenix is a private gay men’s club. Cozy apartments, private rooms and amazg hom: be weled by the gay muny over 200 untri. Apartments, rooms, hom: be weled by the gay muny.

10 BT GAY BARS METRO PHOENIX

Annually, this is the headquarters for the Arizona Gay Roo (which ris to town each Febary), as well as over-the-top parti on Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day weekends, thanks to the expansive pat out back.

Gay owned and operated sce 2004, Exposed is a space that celebrat all forms of art across many mediums — cludg live body patg — and hosts rotatg llectns as well as pop-up events. Acrdg to Arizona’s Hip Historian Marshall Shore, who has lived Phoenix sce before the cy had a "gayborhood, ” the regn's LGBTQ+ history dat back to First Natn's people and the ia of two spirs.

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The days, everyone knows what a gayborhood is and where to fd one — even Phoenix. What distguish this gayborhood is the inic Melrose Arch, one of Phoenix's two rabow crosswalks, a larger-than-life rabow mural on the si of Stacy's @ Melrose (don't miss this photo op), s annual street fair and, of urse, the welg atmosphere. Corona Ranch and Roo Grounds was home to Arizona's first gay roo 1984, and at the time, Arizona was only the fifth state to host an event of this kd.

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The Arizona Gay Roo Associatn, which was one of the foundg members of the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn, is still gog strong 30-pl years later. At the same time the Arizona Gay Roo began, John Kg and Kenny Cunz opened Charlie's Phoenix, a untry-themed gay bar Phoenix's Melrose District. Phoenix has a history of hostg gay pri-themed events that predate the Phoenix Pri anizatn we know today.

In June 1977, the cy's first gay pri week was anized by the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny at the time and,  1981, the first pri para took to the streets. This hip, historic neighborhood near downtown was Phoenix's first and, perhaps only, "gay ghetto. " In the 1970s, middle class gay whe men began movg to the area and renovated many of the midcentury hom.

On June 28, 1969, officers and tectiv om the New York Police Department raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village.

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The turmoil me after years of police harassment of LGBTQ bars and an anti-gay legal system rife wh homophobia.

In the early- to mid-’60s, you uld pretty much unt the total number of lol gay and lbian spots on one hand. Long before there was Phoenix Pri, a Melrose district, or anyone g the phrase “gayborhood, ” the Valley’s LGBTQ bar landspe was virtually nonexistent. Marshall Shore, “Arizona’s Hip Historian” and project manager for the Arizona LGBT+ History Project: Pre-Stonewall, Phoenix was very different for gays and lbians.

It was one of those bsmen lunch plac, but then, at night, beme a gay bar. There was also Capta’s Table, which was a gay bar on Seventh Street [and Missouri Avenue], but that would’ve been like the hterlands of Phoenix at that pot. It was a good place to meet people, a neighborhood bar that people knew was a gay bar.

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Moody: Capta’s Table was like a much smaller crowd, and, basilly, the neighborhood had a lot of gay people at that time. Larry Van r Beek La Noue: What was like beg a gay man the ’60s?

Daddy Ron), manager of Nu-Towne Saloon: In 1968, I was 17-18, so I uldn’t really be a part of the gay bars, so I end up the ltle place lled Act III for unrage kids.

THIS PHOENIX SPOT IS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE US — EVEN THOUGH 'S NOT A GAY BAR

It was jt a gay, no-alhol club for young men that uldn’t go to the bars.

I was sexually sure I was gay; I jt wasn’t sure about beg that way public. I found one article om back ’56 talkg about how there was a hoe party where they arrted all the men intifyg as [homosexual], and gave the number of atten and broke down which rac they all were.

I don’t rell exactly what I was charged wh, lewd behavr, probably, which they ed a lot that perd wh gay people. And you wouldn’t have even known was gay-related, except the mayor mentned how was somethg you would fd Pershg Square L.

GAY EATS: 9 LGBTQ RTRANTS SERVG UP DELECTABLE CULARY DELIGHTS PHOENIX, ARIZONA

But gays, lbians, trans, and people of lor had grown tired of and were fed up. The gay prs vered , and I read about ONE Magaze, which was a publitn by the Mattache Society that I subscribed to back then.

Ron Wilx: I never learned about Stonewall until to the ’70s, bee when was gog on 1969, there really was no real gay news [outlets]. The gay publitns brought up the ire and foced on and did more than one story on , of urse. My mother was gifted wh a transgenr child, post-op, which was me, and a gay man who loved to wear drag, which was my brother.