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•  CONNECTICUT LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• FOR LGBTQ MUNY, GAY BARS ARE 'SAFE PLACE' TO EXPERIMENT, FD ONELF
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
• NEW GUI TO GAY BARS LONDON AND MYSTIC
• GAY BAR NEW LONDON
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

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

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Turng out to the bar those remag days to both mourn the impendg closure and celebrate, that muny was sudnly forced to reckon wh the remr of a larger trend sweepg the natn: gay bars, due to a variety of reasons rangg om risg rents to a proliferatn of datg apps, are closg.

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But even though the bar has sce reopened — owner Donald O’Neill cled to ment why or how — a larger qutn still remaed: What would mean for New London, as well as the regn, to lose s last gay space? 'Every cy needs a gay space'.

For many members of New London’s LGBTQ muny, gay bars are dispensable meetg pots — plac where they uld not jt socialize and meet others, but which act as a safe spac to e out and creatively explore onelf. “It was the place where, when I turned 18 and had jt e out, I went to dance, ” said T Abad, 26, an openly gay bartenr at Bank Street’s The Social Bar + Kchen, who equents the Brass Rail about three days a week.

He ma feel safe to fd myself there, ” Coronado said, who has sce bee an active member of New London’s gay muny, pecially supportg s drag queens. “And nowadays, every cy still needs a gay space. The Whalg Cy ntually monstrat openns to s LGBTQ muny: The Social, known as an LGBTQ-iendly bar, hosts s monthly drag bnch, and Bank Street's Docksi Rort Bar recently announced would host weekly gay dance and karaoke nights.

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But Coronado, and others The Day spoke wh, say New London and the regn still have progrs to make terms of gay acceptance. “It’s not like you will get beat up as a gay man anymore, but that still don’t mean equentg bars as one is always fortable, ” he said. As another example, Coronado said he recently went to Mohegan Sun wh a gay iend and was ridiculed by a group of llege-age men for gog out together.

Sce re-tablished self as a gay bar the mid-2000s, the Brass Rail has functned as an epicenter for drag, both New London and throughout regn. And that’s why that gay bar is so important to so many people.

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Daryl Fiz, New London’s first openly gay mayor, agreed. Historilly, gay bars functned as unrground meetg spac throughout the 1970s and '80s.

But gay bars also operated as rallyg pots and polil headquarters where gay muni gathered the name of advancg LGBTQ rights wh society. “Gay bars are not jt bars.

Connecticut College profsor and historian Jim Downs, thor of “Stand By Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn, ” add to that pot. In the greater picture of gay liberatn, gay bars have been the fol pots to some of history’s most pivotal moments, Downs said. Greenwich Village’s 1969 Stonewall rts, the pnacle event gay-liberatn history, started  a gay space: the Stonewall Inn.

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And the wake of tragedi, such as the aftermath of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shootg, gay bars have acted as safe spac for the LGBTQ muny to mourn together. The Brass Rail, then, too, played host to one of New London’s most remarkable moments s gay history, when Fiz was elected mayor 2011.

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The future of gay bars is threatened by what Downs scrib as a perfect storm of circumstanc: risg rents and gentrifitn, a shiftg datg scene due to the growg populary of datg apps, as well as a wir acceptance of the LGBTQ muny wh broar society.

A Gallup poll 1996 said that only 27 percent of Amerins approved of gay marriage. “There’s the possibily then that LGBTQ-iendly plac are seeg gay life a one-dimensnal way.

It means gay upl n buy each other drks, or they n dance together, s and cuddle.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

But then you fet the gay bar is not jt about datg and meetg people. Consirg that the Brass Rail is the only gay bar available for populatns livg throughout eastern Connecticut, as well as Wtern Rho Island, Downs said s closg would prent prsg logistil issu for the broar LGBTQ muny.

“Gay bars matter New York, but they also matter New London, ” Downs said. “In New York you might have a gay ffee hoe or a gay movie theater or a gay neighborhood. But ls populated gay areas, the bar is often the only space available to the LGBTQ people to e together.

Keepg optimistic, Fiz said he didn’t believe that New London would ever be whout s own gay space, should the Brass Rail ever close. “At any given time, there has never not been an tablishment New London that’s tered to the gay muny. 24 plac sorted by traveler favorBars & Clubs • Gay BarsTrafalgar Square / EmbankmentGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissTrafalgar Square / EmbankmentBars & Clubs • Gay BarsLeicter Square / Shaftbury AvenueWhat travelers are saygBier than expected but service was fast and iendly.