This is NOT a gay bar - Review of Eureka Live Unrground, Eureka Sprgs, AR - Tripadvisor

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• A IENDLY MALE GAY BAR WH EXCELLENT... - HENRI'S JT ONE MORE
•  ARKANSAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THIS IS NOT A GAY BAR - EUREKA LIVE UNRGROUND
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS
• GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'
• EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS
•  ARKANSAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
•  ARKANSAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS
• EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS EUREKA SPRGS

A IENDLY MALE GAY BAR WH EXCELLENT... - HENRI'S JT ONE MORE

I highly remend to my gay men of vis: April 20151 Thank annmac2015 This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Gray had done all, or close to , his 60-pl years – the ary veteran has been a hairdrser, puter programmer, award-wng AIDS advote, and drag queen (he performed as Patti Le Plae Safe, a Miss Gay Ameri wner).

Now he mans the ont sk at a motel-turned-LGBTQ-iendly rort, the Wanroo Lodge, owned by a gay uple who recently settled Eureka themselv. A nearly 70-foot-tall J statue gaz over a place once lled the “gayt small town Ameri. Among the mm’s artifacts are vtage photos of a gay uple holdg hands and a woman drsed men’s cloth, he said.

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

Out gay men and women started nng lucrative bs – Gary Eagen’s Sprg Street Pottery stud still stands. Soon, straight and gay upl were drsg drag as sultry saloon performers or macho wboys, pos that were “happily enuraged and monplace, ” Danos said.

What better place, they thought, to ri out the crazit days of their liv than a gay small town?

THIS IS NOT A GAY BAR - EUREKA LIVE UNRGROUND

But ’s a divi that s rints have mostly been able to bridge wh kdns, said David Avanzo, who speaks fondly of a Wanroo regular – “your typil Ozark man” – who once told Avanzo that he’d never met gay men before patronizg the lodge. The days, Taylor said he don’t even “thk about beg gay bee seems so normal here as a uple to go out among straight upl. A iend and former mayor was at the urthoe, too, and he married the uple on the spot – they beme the first male gay uple to legally marry Arkansas.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS

Touted as the “Gay Capal of the Ozarks, ” Eureka Sprgs is on Vatner’s list of 22 Small LGBTQ-Friendly Ci the U. It has been touted by other gay publitns as one of the “bt small gay ci”, “Gay Capal of the Ozarks”, and “the gayt small town Ameri”. Though there are no exclively gay bars or clubs, below are a uple of plac where you n enjoy the nightlife, cludg live mic or drag shows.

Wh a sizable LGBTQ muny and numero gay-owned and gay-iendly bs; Eureka Sprgs offers shops, galleri, outdoor activi and a wi variety of rtrants, bars, live mic and night life.

GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'

Road Not 6: Our Arkansas Three Gay Bars, by Tory and Greggor. Northwt Arkansas ntas all the ntrasts and ntradictns of other small cy gay bars, isolated om gay neighborhoods but close to Amerin landmarks. Fort Smh and Fayetteville are one hour apart, but their two gay clubs are entwed by more than their relative proximy northwt Arkansas, home of Walmart’s ternatnal headquarters and the ty, gay-iendly Eureka Sprgs.

We lghed and played songs on the jebox and swapped stori about straight men gay bars. Like many of the plac we’ve vised, Jamie Wilson, the manager and one of C4’s -owners, don’t ll a gay club bee “we are fightg for equaly so hard, why label ourselv to make feel like we’re exclive?

” At the same time, the club is open about beg gay-owned: “we are proud of that, we are not gog to be the closet about that at all. All the small-cy gay bars have drag shows, and all the shows feature queens om neighborg small ci and the nearby metropolis. Tory beg greeted by Jamie Wilson, -owner of C4 Slick neon brandg of Fayetteville’s only gay bar, and largt dance club.

EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS

It has no gay bar per se, acrdg to Damron or Jay Wilks, the anizer of Out Eureka, so we did not arrange for any terviews. Eureka Sprgs do have a populatn where one-fifth of the upl town are same-sex, and featur the Eureka Live Unrground, which on closer spectn has all the hallmarks of a small-cy gay bar: the subtle rabow logo, the word “diverse, ” monthly drag shows and weekly karaoke, a “walk of shame” bloody Mary bar, an credible selectn of top-shelf liquors, “dancg, hula hoops, crazy hats, ” and is owned by gay uple Walter Burrell and Lee Keatg (Lee passed the week before we arrived).

Like other regnal tourist statns, the batn of visg gays and gay-iendly lols means patronage n be predomantly straight but the vibe n be more than merely gay-spired. It was a mon story for small cy gay bars that they are lked by their relative isolatn, petn not wh each other or even wh other bars, but ls-expensive leisure activi. If owng the only gay bar for around don’t mean a monopoly on gay dollars, certaly don’t mean a monopoly on gay time.

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

Owng a succsful gay bar requir a refully balanced formula that is so lolly specific that one bar’s bs mol don’t necsarily translate to another.

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

johnwD2451TASand Sprgs, OklahomaReviewed September 27, 2021 This is not a gay bar is a drag show bar. Reviewed September 27, 2021 This is not a gay bar is a drag show bar. Sometim people ask , "Is te that Eureka Sprgs is a haven for gays & lbians?

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns!

EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS

— On the unt of three, about 50 gay upl kissed their partners the public square of a small town the Ozark Wilks, the event’s anizer, told the crowd to do over.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS EUREKA SPRGS

But Eureka Sprgs, Wilks, who ns Out Eureka, an LGBTQ event and rmatn anizatn, is workg to create what he se as an oasis: a space for LGBTQ people to explore a quat Southern town while beg weled exactly as they ci and towns red stat have also begun urtg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer tourists, as a way of showg their openns and bee there’s money to be ma. ”Oklahoma Cy tri to entice LGBTQ tourists wh s annual Memorial Day gay roo and s small but thrivg southwt of Eureka Sprgs, Fayetteville is on a siar missn, tryg to appeal to LGBTQ people Arkansas and neighborg stat, for whom gog on vatn to a major cy is st prohibive — or not at all sirable.

“Fire Island is fun, ” he add of the gay statn east of New York Cy, but Wilks wants to rema “te to who Eureka is” — a small town that’s wood, Southern and super gay.

’Fayetteville recently beme the first cy Arkansas to jo the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn, which provis ee rourc, travel suggtns and safety tips to LGBTQ travelers.