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Takg a look back on the history of the 'Gayborhood' loted downtown Raleigh's Warehoe District.

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Every cy needs a slightly dgy basement gay bar, and Raleigh has Flex. The Warehoe District, jt wt of downtown Raleigh, is the cy’s most proment gay neighborhood.

The Warehoe District is home to multiple gay bars and clubs that have been nverted om dtrial buildgs.

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Raleigh's Warehoe District is s most notable "gayborhood," but there are many more LGBT-iendly areas and near Raleigh, NC. * gay bar in raleigh *

Many of the bt gay bars the cy of Raleigh are loted there. The Warehoe District, Raleigh’s Gay NeighborhoodOther LGBTQ-Friendly Neighborhoods and Ci In and Near RaleighDowntown RaleighUniversy Park NeighborhoodChapel Hill, North CarolaCarrboro, North CarolaDurham, North CarolaReferenc. The Warehoe District, Raleigh’s Gay Neighborhood.

Among the bars are a majory of Raleigh’s gay bars and clubs, cludg Flex, Legends, and the Wicked Wch. The high ncentratn of LGBT-iendly bs is what giv the Warehoe District s reputatn as the gay neighborhood of Raleigh. Some of the gay venu the Warehoe District have a s-long history.

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Legends, for example, is one of the most well-known nightlife venu the cy, gay or straight. The well-known gay bar Ruby Deluxe is loted downtown, near the Raleigh Conventn Center.

Chapel Hill has had openly LGBT polil lears, cludg a gay mayor and LGBT uncilmembers, startg as far back as the 1970s.

Like Chapel Hill, Carrboro has also had openly gay lears and was among the first ci the state to extend domtic partnership benefs to same-sex upl the days before legal gay marriage. Most larger ci the Uned Stat have a neighborhood that is popular wh the Gay muny or the entire lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Hargett Street is fairly central wh Downtown, and many people headg there om other sectns of the greater Raleigh metro regn, pass right through this area of Hargett Street whout knowg that part of is an active Gayborhood. Many of the Gay, Lbian.

The area also was once home to the AIDS Alliance of the Carolas, Whe Rabb Gay/Lbian Books & Thgs, and the LGBT Center of Raleigh and is still vibrant wh several art galleri / retail tablishments that are owned by GLBT people.

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State Government bs & life and high end retail for most of central and eastern North Carola, pl the center of higher tn for the State, ast a time when GLBT people did not have many plac to meet public due to social disapproval and anbti-gay laws. The Five Pots neighborhood is documented as havg two of the first Gay (at the time, the term ed for what we now ll "LGBT") bars. Later, jt before the Hotel Raleigh, at the rner of McDowell & Mart Streets, was molished, there was a gay bar wh  named The Queen Bee.

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Immediately wh a few blocks there was another hotel where entreprenrs set up bars that were equented by gay people: The Teddy Bear Lounge, the old Andrew Johnson Hotel at rner of Mart and Salisbury Streets, immediately around the rner om Park Central Hotel, (NOTE: both the Queen Bee & The Teddy Bear Lounge s now on the same block as The News and Observer News Paper), and a bar wh the old Carola Hotel (where Raleigh Cy Hall currently ss). Even before The Berkeley opened the door, The Capal Corral, opened 1976, bee the Warehoe district’s first stand alone gay club, at the time terg to men only.

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