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Contents:
- MAYOR’S OFFICE OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUTNG AFFAIRS
- MOVG TO LGBT WASHGTON DC? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS WASHGTON
MAYOR’S OFFICE OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUTNG AFFAIRS
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Aged 65 or olr intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Kahlib Barton, Vice Chair, Young Black Gay Mens’ Learship Iniative, and Member, Natnal Youth Fom on Homelsns.
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The above map and s acpanyg history tell the story of the bars, bookstor, group hom, clics, and church that have played sential rol DC's gay muny for the past half century. Durg the 60s and 70s, as LGBT activism moved more to the public foreont, the number of gay bars grew throughout the District; also emergg this time were Guild Prs, which published gay travel guis, fictn, and a newspaper lled Gay Fom, as well as the Washgton Free Clic, which provid STD unselg to gay men.
MOVG TO LGBT WASHGTON DC? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
The growth of gay spac slowed down the 1980s, she says, but at the same time the clud DC's first gural High Heel Drag Queen Race, which has now bee an stutn. The slowed growth ntued the 90s and 2000s, but 's very possible that's bee time has passed, there's been ls of a need for gay people to hi pla sight. “Wh greater acceptance has me blurrier l to what nstut gay bars and spac, ” wr Kate.
“Nowadays bars like Nellie's, one of the few notable gay bars to open sce 2000, are attend by straight people, and many bars whout the tentn of beg a gay bar wele and celebrate their LGBT muny.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS WASHGTON
The data Kate ed to create the map is available through the Rabow History Project, an anizatn dited to llectg, prervg, and promotg gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr history DC.