Is Dupont Circle still the center and safe space for LGBTQ life Washgton, D.C.? By Mil O'Reilly, Jed Sammons, Tara Suter and Hope Talbert In June 2016, after a gunman massacred 49 people si an Orlando gay bar—the adlit act of anti-LGBTQ vlence Amerin history—hundreds of people poured to Washgton D.C.’s Dupont Circle…
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- 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
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D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
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GAY WASHGTON DC
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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.
THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?
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STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
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