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WHAT HAPPENED TO COLUMBIA’S GAY CLUBS?
He lik to tell younger people about The Capal Club’s early days, a very different — and ght — time to be a gay bar South Carola. The Capal Club, or simply “Capal, ” as patrons ll , is the olst operatg gay bar Columbia, and acrdg to s webse, the Southeast. Jt around the rner is PT’s 1109, the cy’s other gay bar, which opened 2000.
Through discsns wh bar owners and patrons and analyzg rerds om Historic Columbia, The Carola News and Reporter unvered a strange statistic: Columbia, 2022, has only those two gay bars, the lowt number the cy sce 1960.
GAY BREMEN
Like a lot of gay bars at the time, Rumors started as a private club wh a guard list of members. “I was still playg what was typilly lled ‘gay mic.
A sign by the door said the membership clud gay, straight, Black and whe, and anyone who ed trouble would be asked to leave. A DIVISION OF THE RAINBOW — GAY CLUBS SELF-SEGREGATE.
On Two Notch Road, The Candy Shop was known as Columbia’s only Black gay bar. “That was the only Black gay club for around, ” she said. You had gays there, straights there, you had everybody at The Candy Shop.
GAY BAR
It was also a place to get away om racism at other gay clubs, cludg for Snrs, a Black trans woman. Lane remembers Traxx as a rary even among the few gay bars town, beg targeted towards women. Even today, lbian bars are ls mon than male gay bars.
Many of them were straight wh gay iends, but some were closeted, Skipper, the print, said.
Before he me to Columbia, someone shot through the wdows of a gay bar Wilmgton, N. Straight people “me (to The Candy Shop) bee their iends were gay and they were jt hangg out, ” she said.