Washgton DC Gay Area Gui - Dupont Circle │ misterb&b

Contents:

• WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE
• D.C. NO LONGER HAS A CENTRAL GAY NEIGHBORHOOD. DO THAT MATTER?
• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• GAY WASHGTON DC
• THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?
• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE

Like most pals, Washgton DC offers a robt and dynamic gay district which ters to a range of different tast.

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

Rather than one specific gay area, the scene Washgton has most pals, Washgton DC offers a robt and dynamic gay district which ters to a range of different tast. Rather than one specific gay area, the scene Washgton has dispersed through different neighborhoods of the cy. Most gay life, however, n be found around 17th Street Dupont Circle, and U Street Logan Circle.

DCs gayt street is 17th Street, and here you will fd a host of gay spots ready to open their doors.

Word has that this place offers one of the bt gay atmospher town, and s monthly 80s dance party ‘The Breakfast Club Remix’ is a sure fire h wh the lols.

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

A past-time that’s pretty much bee scribed Washgton’s gay scene. To the north of Logan Circle, U Street has unrgone a massive transformatn, and is now brimmg wh some of the bt gay bars and clubs Washgton.

Nellie’s Sports Bar was the first gay venue to open outsi of Dupont Circle, and has reached legendary stat thanks to s popular events cludg trivia and drag bgo. 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.

GAY WASHGTON DC

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.

“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.

THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?

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.

STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

P’s, the Fraterny Hoe (later, Omega), Phase 1’s Northwt outpost, and the Last Hurrah (next lled Badlands, and most recently, Apex)—waterg hol that tered to gay men. The ncentratn of queer culture has sttered, however, and some look back on the “gayborhood’s” heyday wh pri and sda.

Gay Dupont may not be ad, but ’s slowed down nsirably—as have those who vivified .

“Gay Pri Day, ” which would eventually bee Capal Pri. In a sign that Dupont was reifyg s reputatn as a queer “ghetto” like the Village New York and Castro San Francis, Gay Pri Day 1979 attracted 10, 000 people and stretched three blocks. Throughout s history, Lambda Risg served as a muny center, renzvo spot, and gossip l for the District’s gay populatn.