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• THE BT GAY BARS BOSTON
• THE BEST CAMBRIDGE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CAMBRIDGE
• GAY BOSTON
• GAY PROVCETOWN 2023
• GAY BOSTON
• EAGLE'S NTPROVINCEMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASTOURSGAY MAPEAGLE'S NT
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BOSTON

THE BT GAY BARS BOSTON

has this list of former gay bars and hot spots, wrten by someone much younger than I:Do you remember....? Not sure what the name was, but I was told there ed to be a bar or der where gay men equented back the 70s and 80s. Wh the 24-hour ders and Chatown nearby, one would have thought that gay nightlife would thrive...

Okay, 's not a bar or club, but was perhaps the most popular, longt-survivg gay bookstore Boston. Another short-lived bar on Washgton Street Downtown Crossg that featured gay night (Wedndays). Saturday morngs had a mixed crowd, and Sunday morngs were all-gay.

The Loft has been closed for almost ten years now, but now RISE has returned (after a fire that closed the club for over a year) as the after-hours hot spot for gay club-goers. Filed unr Gay Issu | permalk | October 17, 2004 at 07:35 PM.

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I hear of lot of top 20 om the eighti listed as "Gay Mic".

"Not sure what the name was, but I was told there ed to be a bar or der where gay men equented back the 70s and 80s.

I remember standg ont of the Commons, lookg left and right for anyone I knew who might see me, then nng across Boylston to enter the gay world. I've done some rearch but am lookg for someone who might be open to talkg to me about their rellectns of gay bars and bath hoe/s Boston (C) 1972.

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A few gay guys hung out there at night. The 80s gay bar scene Boston wasGR8. Memori of all the different gay bars Boston to what 2 or 3 left today?

All great plac filled wh the after hours gay crowd! Gay bathhoe fire unr vtigatn.

Fire officials yterday had not termed what ed a two-alarm fire at a gay bath hoe the fancial district Monday night. (401)831-GAYS (4297). Lookg for your next big gay getaway?

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Boston is the gateway for one of the untry's top gay vatn statns, Provcetown. The South End, the hub of the muny, is a neighborhood of grand bow-ont ho that had fallen to disrepair until tchg the ey of gays armed wh hammers and pat bsh.

There are plenty of rtrants along the major thoroughfar of Tremont Street and Columb Avenue, and still a handful of popular gay and iendly bars.

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Jamai Pla (lled 'JP' lolly) a b further out the Orange Le, is a muny of profsnals, activists and artists, cludg many lbians & gay men, mixed wh a large Lat populatn. This is also where Hot Ms Sundays, one of the big weekly gay dance nights, tak place. For the gayt beach Provcetown is the bt bet --an easy ferry ri om Boston Harbor.

Bay Wdows is an rmative gay weekly newspaper, wh listgs, news, reviews, and classifieds; prt and onle. Boston Spir is a 6 tim-per-year gay liftyle magaze eebie. EDGE Boston has gay entertament listgs and event updat.

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Rabow Tim vers gay New England, and publish annual Pri Guis for Boston, Connecticut and Northampton, MA.

The 200-voice Boston Gay Men's Chos ensemble is one of New England’s largt and most succsful muny-based chos, wh ncerts attend by over 10, 000 people each season. For more LGBT & iends sports optns see: The Boston Gay Basketball League; the Boston Strikers Soccer Club; Boston Pri Hockey; the CBVA (Cambridge Boston Volleyball Associatn); the FLAG (Friends, Lbians, and Gays) flag football league; LANES (Liquid Assets New England Swimmg); The Boston Ironsis Rugby Football Club; the OutRyrs New England Gay Ski and Snowboard Club; and the Beantown Soft-Tip Dart League. For lotns and webse lks to bs listed below, see our Boston gay map & listgs pag.

Near the gay nightlife, The Alise Boston (26 Chandler St; 857-444- 6111), a 56-room Staypeapple boutique hotel the South End, is central to jt about everywhere, eher on foot or a short hop on the T. Cathedral Statn (1222 Washgton St), South End gay sports bar, ckatails, pub fare menu, Saturday/Sunday and holiday Monday bnch, trivia game nights, pat seatg.

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Full-service rtrant, fort foods wh a French twist, Sunday bnch; transforms to gay nightclub and lounge nightly, for dancg after 10pm. Hot Ms Sundays at Candibar (279 Tremont St), weekly Sunday 21+ gay dance nights the Theater District, amatr strip ntts and drag diva hosts.

Mache (1256 Boylston St) - CLOSED - long-popular gay 18+ Friday and Saturdays danc, live bands and go-go boys, upstairs Friday Gay Lat Nights; Saturday urban mic dance nights, queer hip-hop, reggae, vogue and twerk beats.

Still popular wh gay men om days when Frz sports bar was here. Bis Hot Ms Sundays, Gay Mafia Boston produc gay special events at The Royale, along wh Lato Wedndays and Saturday events Bay Village, at Legacy (79 Warren St).

CLOSED: Rise (306 Stuart, Back Bay), 18+ after-hours weekend dancg; Paradise (180 Massachetts Ave, Cambridge), male strippers, weekend dancg; Randolph Country Club (44 Mazzeo Dr, Randolph), gay summer pool olics, wter fireplace lounge; T. Club Body Center (257 Weybossett St, Province), 18+ gay bathhoe, exercise and gam rooms, porn vio lounge, fetish shows, College and Tranny Nights, steam and tanng.

Wh s gay-beach mec Provcetown to boastg one of the bt Pri Ftivals the untry, Massachetts and s people are known to be some of the most acceptg groups out there.

1978: A group of people led by gay attorney John Ward meets the basement of the Old Wt Church and found GLAD (Gay & Lbian Advot and Defenrs), which is now the pneerg group of lawyers who reprent gay and lbian terts urtPhoto Cred: Charl Dixon, Boston Globe Staff1979: What is now the Fay Equaly Council is formed after a group of gay fathers got together and formed the Gay Fathers Coaln. Knowg that there were other gay dads out there, they were mted to fdg each other and formg a work of support. 1982: The Boston Gay Men’s Chos is found.

1988: A small group of young people wh gay and lbian parents together while their parents are attendg an annual nference sponsored by the Gay and Lbian Parents Coaln Internatnal (GLPCI – now known as Fay Equaly Council).

The bt of Boston’s gay bar scene n be found around the South End, Dorchter, and beyond.

The nversatns about Boston’s gay nightlife scene often center around the closgs of cherished tablishments and rapid gentrifitn of once-gay neighborhoods. Sectns of Dorchter, once the epicenter of Boston’s Irish Catholic workg-class, are now miature gayborhoods — plete wh Sunday tea danc.

The Theater District is home to multiple clubs that regularly host big-name DJs and queens om RuPl’s Drag Race (season 15 wner Sasha Colby performed at Legacy this wter), and Back Bay remas filled wh gay-iendly neighborhood hnts. Wh a proud history of supportg gay rights and a large LGBTQ populatn, Boston is unsurprisgly one of the most clive metro areas the untry. It is te that gay people n feel fortable galavantg anywhere, om Eastie’s wateront to Somerville’s Davis Square.