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D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

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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.

D.C. NO LONGER HAS A CENTRAL GAY NEIGHBORHOOD. DO THAT MATTER?

Gone is the closeted, often tolerant Washgton; the pal is now perhaps the gayt place the natn. * gay dupont circle *

's evolvg gayborhood has shifted towards Logan Circle and U Street. In Febary 2016, the Washgton Bla noted an "unual flurry of activy" wh the openg of four new gay bars, the majory of which land the U Street/Shaw/Logan Circle area.

Those spots and more sports bars, dance clubs, and cktail havens are all clud Eater's round up of the District's gay-iendlit bars and hangouts.

THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?

About 300 people turned out D.C.'s Logan Circle on Thursday night for a ndlelight gatherg of remembrance for gay longtime . . . * gay dupont circle *

New gay dive bar Tra opened last year, urty of the team behd Town Danceboutique and Number Ne. New to the Shaw/U Street gay bar scene is Uproar, which buted last year. Read more om our 2016 Gay Issue here.

THE GAY LIFE AT DUPONT CIRCLE

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“I told them I was gay, ” says the 73-year-old Dupont Circle rint, whose closet door me “flyg off” when he was 28. Gay polil groups and bars had taken root; anti-war and civil-rights monstratns abound. In an age where g out was more dangero than ually is now, when beg openly gay often triggered prejudice and srn, books and newspapers like the Washgton Bla, tablished 1969, played a ccial role creatg muni.

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Prt mattered, not only as a means of relayg rmatn on gay happengs but also as one of drawg queer folk together. He’d settled on the name after the Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs Edburgh adopted the Greek letter as a symbol of solidary.

At the time, “there weren’t many thgs that were gay” the neighborhood, he says.

“But people were here and they were gay.

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