6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER — QUEER DENVER LIVING

Contents:

• "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
• 6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• GAY ST. LOUIS

"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

We're jt for the morng gays. "When people thk of gay spac or queer spac, they immediately thk of a nightclub or bar — maybe a ltle hole the wall, " he said. Gay bars hold a eply important place the history of LGBTQ rights and visibily the Uned Stat.

For s and s, jt visg a gay bar was a high-risk activy.

For young members of the LGBTQ muny, gog out to a gay or lbian bar was almost like a re of passage. Growg up as a queer, Black women Louisville, Kentucky, Arielle Clark said that she felt like there were certa "ton" she wanted to meet to feel at home the muny: She wanted to attend Kentucky Pri and meet other LGBTQ people, and then she wanted to get to some kd of gay bar or nightclub bee that's where everyone spent time on the weekends. Commercial opportuni there are fewer and attus towards gays and lbians, not always as iendly.

6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER

Yet a regn that’s jt outsi the natn’s gay mec on the map—but a ln away iology—creatg and matag a gay-iendly hub is a small revolutn. ”Dpe beg the fourth most populo place a state wh one of the natn’s largt LGBTQ+ populatns, Man has historilly stggled to mata a unified and visible gay muny. And for reasons that nobody n que ppot, Man’s gay and lbian prence has never que gaed the strength seen elsewhere.

“At one pot time, Man did have a thrivg gay muny, clubs, activists. ”Gay men and women were a fixture Man as early as the ‘70s and ‘80s, acrdg to Ray Robert Grissett, who told The Man Telegraph he performed as female impersonator Tangere Summers gay-iendly bars that dotted downtown Man back the relatnship between the gay muny and greater Man was always tense. “Gay men and women were a fixture Man as early as the ‘70s and ‘80s, acrdg to Ray Robert Grissett, who told The Man Telegraph he performed as female impersonator Tangere Summers gay-iendly bars that dotted downtown Man back then.

Through the 1990s, the cy would see a handful of high-profile anti-LGBTQ+ cints, cludg the 1993 shootg ath of Elizabeth Davidson by a teenager who followed her to a gay bar, The Pegas Lounge, closed the next day, and most other gay bars soon followed 2004, the cy’s six-year-old Pri celebratn abptly shuttered. By 2011, Synergy, once a premier statn for gay Middle Geia, had gone straight. “I thk maybe the gay muny Man has given up, ” she says.

LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

1119 Loct Street, Gayborhood. Owned by JonCarl Lachman, the chef behd the East Passyunk favore (and sadly soon-to-be-closed) Noord, Wkel is a statn bnch spot the Gayborhood.

Philly’s olst gay bar has been an in for the leather muny sce 1982 and is home to the Mx. Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016. Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street.

The venue is the only Latx gay bar LA that explicly ters to a gay and Mexin dience every night, not jt as a theme once a week. But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology.

GAY ST. LOUIS

The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny. Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach. One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows.