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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. Like a lot of gay bars at the time, Rumors started as a private club wh a guard list of members.
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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.