The U Street Corridor Fally Has a Gay Club Aga - Eater DC

Contents:

• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA
• MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV
• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• LOUD AND PROUD: WASHGTON DC'S BT GAY BARS

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

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.

“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.

THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

“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.

Val Dupont Gay Bar Cobalt Is Closg After Two Des.

Bunker, a subterranean gay club, opened s massive doors to live DJ sets on Thursday, Febary 23.

MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV

In the past three years, all of the cy’s siar clubs have closed, cludg Cobalt, Secrets, DC Eagle, and the largt gay dance club D. While Bunker is the first bona fi gay club D. Here before me were three men who were gay and died om AIDS.

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

Then-Print Ronald Reagan did not mentn the word AIDS publicly for years until after his Hollywood iend Rock Hudson me out as gay and revealed that he was livg wh AIDS. The ernment was so adamant about not mentng AIDS that the topic was met wh lghter and homophobic remarks a 1982 prs nference which former Prs Secretary Larry Speak asked reporter Lter Ksolvg if he had AIDS. In that time of ernmental neglect, misrmatn, and homophobia, Jake posed a challenge his piece.

In my muny, ’s not unmon to hear someone mentn that homosexualy isn’t “Ain” or that homosexualy is an “agenda” beg phed by the whe mastream media to stroy the Black fay stcture. Even though the Black church is currently experiencg drops attendance, not too many Black people are far removed om the fluence the church has had on our people and unfortunately, homophobia has been one of s fluenc.

Beg a Black gay man the 70s, 80s, and 90s, I wonr how Charl navigated the social issu. The new project om Keaton Fedak, the outgog general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose. ’s Gay Flag Football League).

LOUD AND PROUD: WASHGTON DC'S BT GAY BARS

“We’re hopg to make a gayborhood Shaw. Across the street om Kiki and Dirty Goose, unaffiliated gay tablishment Nellie’s Sports Bar ma negative headl this June after a secury guard asslted a Black woman. Asslt Agast a Black Woman at Nellie’s Could Lead the Gay Bar to Lose Its Liquor License [EDC].

This pneerg gay sports bar, one of the first to open outsi of Dupont Circle, hosts all sorts of events, like trivia and drag bgo.

Named for DC-born soul sger Marv Gaye, this hot spot serv thentic soul food wh a Belgian twist amid fantastilly ornate r. '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.