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• 10 BT GAY BARS PHOENIX
• FOR PRI MONTH AND BEYOND, HERE ARE 10 SENTIAL GAY BARS PHOENIX AND STTSDALE
• 10 BT GAY BARS METRO PHOENIX
• WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA
•  ARIZONA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THIS PHOENIX SPOT IS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE US — EVEN THOUGH 'S NOT A GAY BAR
• CHARLIE'SPHOENIXMENUHOTELSGAY BARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPCHARLIE'S
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10 BT GAY BARS PHOENIX

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From the Melrose District to Old Town Sttsdale, here are 10 of the bt gay bars the Valley.

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

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. Read on for more of Phoenix's bt gay nightlife spots.

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.

10 BT GAY BARS METRO PHOENIX

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. 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 .

Here are our 10 favore gay bars metro Phoenix.

WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA

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).

Esquire jt published s list of the untry's 32 bt gay bars om Alaska to Washgton, D.

 ARIZONA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

Contributors om across the untry helped Esquire put together the lp of bars that clud classics and newers alike, om Oasis  San Francis, an 8, 000 square-foot bathhoe turned baret that has hosted nttants om RuPl's Drag Race to The Boatslip Provcetown, famo for s three-hour Tea Dance, and New York Cy's olst gay bar, Juli. " Esquire's Market Edor Alfonso Fernanz Navas suggted when the team set out to make the Burke, a ntributg edor at Esquire, GQ, The New York Tim and Travel & Leisure, selected Valley Bar Phoenix as his Valley Bar is an LGBTQ+ iendly bar, and a fabulo staple of downtown nightlife, a gay bar is not.

Gaymers to RuPl:10 inic events that shaped Arizona's LGBTQ+ munyWhat is Valley Bar? "It's a ol spot and clive (you may have seen the rabow flag hangg over the entrance durg pri), but 's not a gay bar.

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

So, s cln on this list is a b puzzlg, pecially nsirg there are plenty of historic LGBTQ+ spots the Valley worth the neighbors:This rtrant is movg to historic Teeter Hoe downtownValley Bar is ol, but a weird choice for bt gay barPhoenix has s fair share of gay bars and drag clubs, many the Melrose District along Seventh Avenue. So, while we're always hyped when our cy gets natnal regnn, when to celebratg our LGBTQ+ nightlife, we'll stick to spots like Nu Towne Saloon, one of the olst gay bars Phoenix, open sce 1971.

It's a welg, kschy spot on 50th and Van Buren streets, known for over the top Christmas ratns that seem to stay up almost year round and bartenrs who know most of the patrons by there's Cis' 7th, a gay and trans-iendly bar that opened  1977 on Roosevelt as Cis' Central.

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CHARLIE'SPHOENIXMENUHOTELSGAY BARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPCHARLIE'S

Voted #1 Gay Bar Phoenix Arizona, by our ctomers. 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. 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.