Rememberg the Lost Gay Bars of NYC - PAPER Magaze

Contents:

• GAY WASHGTON DC
• WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE
• RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD

GAY WASHGTON DC

The natn's pal is home to a lively LGBTQ+ nightlife scene wh plenty of gay and lbian bars jt wag for you to jo on the fun. Larry’s Lounge is a gay neighborhood pub, wh always-affordable drks, solid happy hour specials, mouth-waterg pub fare (see: sweet potato tots) and one of the cy’s iendlit pats (you n brg your dog, too!

Number Ne to the btlg Logan Circle urty of -founr Ed Bailey, who helped DC’s gay nightlife scene to grow durg his days as a DJ. Suated right the heart of Adams Man’s btlg 18th Street is Pchers, a gay sports bar, and A League of Her Own, the adjacent bar for lbian and queer women. There will always be gay bars, but will they be as vivid, sexy, and subversive as the hnts of yore?

The history of NYC nightlife is studd wh the memori of fascatg boît that attracted gays sperate need of nnectn, then ultimately fell away as newer spots and trends emerged. Once a year—for three years a row—they've done Gay Bars That Are Gone, an rmative walk as part of Jane Jabsftival, May. What's your favore lost NYC gay bar?

WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE

Kyle: My favore is probably the Nth Circle (a fab Wt 10th Street steakhoe-turned-gay-bar full of leather clon, twks, htlers, and celebry drop-s, all eher cisg, playg pool, dog dgs, or bbg agast each other. What are your 'Gay Bars That Are Gone' walks walks like? We try to ver different typ of plac--gay dance clubs, leather scene, piano bars, Rose's Turn, the old Duplex space.

RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD

")So Walt Whman was openly gay?

Michael: Not he went to a gay bar.

Michael: It was a bohemian bar, so we don't have the language to put "gay bar" explicly. We were outsi the Me Shaft [a rnchy 1970s/'80s gay sex club on Washgton Street].