Miami’s Bt Gay Bars and Rtrants - Eater Miami

Contents:

• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• GAY BAR, MEET COCKTAIL BAR
• 12 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND RTRANTS SOUTH FLORIDA
• GAY BARS NEAR ME
• GREAT GAY BARS AND RTRANTS TO VIS SOUTH FLORIDA
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL

Gay Bar In Los AngelTHE ABBEY FOOD & BAR IS A TWO-TIME WINNER OF THE MTV LOGO BEST GAY BAR IN THE WORLD AWARD. Chigo Dog (Gay Style).

LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

1119 Loct Street, Gayborhood. Owned by JonCarl Lachman, the chef behd the East Passyunk favore (and sadly soon-to-be-closed) Noord, Wkel is a statn bnch spot the Gayborhood.

GAY BAR, MEET COCKTAIL BAR

Philly’s olst gay bar has been an in for the leather muny sce 1982 and is home to the Mx. Owner Spencer Hurd moled Licht after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany. His dream: lnchg a cktail bar moled after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany.

“The goal is to foc on the classic cktails, rather than jt vodka-sodas and rose Kennedys, as you may get at other gay bars, ” he says. Licht Café is a reference to the spiratn om his go-to gay spot Mannheim, but also reflects his ial zy space. “I love art and sign, ” Hurd says, “and I wanted to make the bar unapologetilly gay.

12 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND RTRANTS SOUTH FLORIDA

“I want the to be a bid edgy—this is a part of gay culture. The U Street NW strip’s gay bar scene is on the up as of late.

Kiki owner Keaton Fedak, the former general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose, will expand Kiki to the next-door space that formerly hoed dive Dodge Cy. “We’re hopg to make a gayborhood Shaw, ” he told Eater last month. Meet Kiki, an Excg New Gay Bar Replacg a Pair of Shuttered Shaw Div.

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GAY BARS NEAR ME

In a 2009 article for queer publitn Between the L, wrer Camper English laments the lack of “uture cktails” at gay tablishments, potg to the stereotype that “we’re supposed to be trendy people. ” Havg vered cktail culture sce 2006, English believ drks programs at gay bars have remaed remarkably static as the bar and rtrant dtry have drastilly evolved.

“It dawned on me that none of the gay bars were movg the same directn as other bars — they were jt dog the same old flavored vodka drks, most whout h juic or even drk men, ” English tells VePair. “The days, there are some gay bars g h juic their cktails, at least, and more of the rtrants gayborhoods are gettg right. But seems generally that gay bar cktails are about where nightclub cktails are terms of average qualy.

Of urse, the high-volume drks programs at some gay venu functn primarily as social lubrints. While the mixology movement has brought well-ma Manhattans and Mojos to hotel bars, cise ship bars, piano bars, mic ftival bars, and, hell, even airplane bars, 20 years after the cktail revolutn lnched NYC, gay bars are one of the last plac Ameri you n’t always fd a good drk.

GREAT GAY BARS AND RTRANTS TO VIS SOUTH FLORIDA

Wh so many prri to juggle, om shiftg socenomics to vanishg venu, gay bars and cktail culture are now at a historic crossroads. “We thk of cktail bars as a place to go and have a curated experience, ” says Alex Negranza, a gay bartenr and director of operatns at Tongue-Cut Sparrow and The Pastry War Hoton. “Historilly, we don’t have that associatn the gay bar scene bee, for so long, gays were never afford the luxury of a place to dulge.

Much has changed, and ntu to change, sce bars like San Francis’s Black Cat and New York’s Stonewall opened unrserved neighborhoods to provi refuge to gay muni the 1950s.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Namely, the steady closg of the “gay wage gap. ” Acrdg to the latt studi om Pntial and the Harvard Bs Review, the average queer Amerin — albe mostly cis whe gay mal — now earns as much if not more than their straight unterparts. Then there’s the fact that today’s “gayborhoods, ” like Chelsea New York, Boystown Chigo, or Montrose Hoton, are among their ci’ wht and most affluent.

Morn gay bars, likewise, no longer hab the same cultural and physil spac as their precsors. Some queer bartenrs are hant to brg the craft cktail movement, wh s hand-cut ice and elevated price tags, to gay and lbian bars bee there are so few of them left. “The gay bar isn’t nearly as ubiquo as we’d all like to be, so swchg the beverage program at even a uple of gay bars the cy mak accs to queer spac even more limed, ” says Yi Chen, bartenr at The Aviary NYC.

“If gay bars are tly to rema about muny, the msage sent by cktail-specific gay bars is one of alienatn to those who n’t afford , which impli a culture that I personally fd problematic. Others believe queer tablishments wh qualy cktails would provi a wele alternative to hard-partyg gay nightlife. “I don’t really go to gay bars anymore, ” Negranza says.