Gay-Friendly Salt Lake Cy: The Word is Out

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• GAY SALT LAKE CY
• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

GAY SALT LAKE CY

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STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

In some ways, Salt Lake Cy is so gay ’s post-gay. You’ll fd queer folks ngregatg neighborhoods like Sugar Hoe, the Marmala District of Capol Hill, and the Avenu near Temple Square, but there’s no te gayborhood of which to speak. Although this midsize ncert venue isn’t explicly gay, Metro hosts the cy’s bt drag shows (’s the number one place to fd the girls of RuPl’s Drag Race when they’re town).

Coffee and gays are both ex-nays for Mormons, and you’ll often fd both equently paired together. If you’re feelg raveno, jo the “humm-sexual” revolutn by grabbg a meal at Laziz, a gay-owned Lebane rtrant. Utah Gay Ski Week.

But for gay travelers, the area’s famo ski slop have cidly more swish durg Elevatn: Utah’s gay ski week. Between skig all day and dancg all night, this five-day meet-up Park Cy’s wter wonrland is the ultimate gay sleep-away mp. Stt Frankel’s favore memori of New York gay rtrants aren’t about food.

Manat was so gay, had a sobriquet: rtrants, said Frankel, Tony-nomated poser of the mil “Grey Garns, ” “ma you feel like you belonged. ”But all those plac he so fondly remembers are long closed, as are Harvt, Orb’s and several others listed an article, headled “Rtrants That Roll Out the Wele Mat for Gay Ders, ” that ran this newspaper 27 years ago.

The panmic h the untry’s urban gay rtrants pecially hard, said Jt Nelson, print of the Natnal LGBT Chamber of Commerce. MeMe’s Der, a popular queer rtrant Brooklyn, permanently closed November, cg shutdown measur and a lack of ernment rtrants, like gay bars, are also facg cris of inty and purpose a time that is many ways more welg than the past, when gay people sought out gay rtrants bee they offered safety and acceptance that uldn’t be found elsewhere.

Many gay rtrants have closed a time of growg cln and more fluid sexual inti but several plac around the untry, they rema anchors of safety and muny. Gay men equented plac like Orphan Andy’s, a mpy der om the same that’s still bs the Castro neighborhood of San Francis.

Atlanta had Waterworks, which a 1992 newsletter for the group Black and Whe Men Together lled the cy’s “only Black-owned gay rtrant. And shiftg nceptns of sexualy and genr extend beyond what words like gay, lbian, male or female n acmodate. A gay rtrant n jt sound fuddy-duddy.

“Many of the more privileged young queer people have grown up wh cln, so they don’t feel the need to be a place where you’re sheltered om heterosexism, ” said Julie Podmore, an urban geographer at Conrdia Universy may be the se New York Cy, where gay rtrants are gog the way of dosrs (if not yet extct — Elmo and other spots are still keepg their gay fan base fed) elsewhere the untry, many gay rtrants are thrivg — as treasured lol bs, facto muny centers, refug om ntug anti-queer vlence and potential paths forward for a rtrant dtry a recent Saturday night the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washgton, Annie’s Paramount Steak Hoe was by, and was gay.

Three 20-somethg gay men shared i.