San Francis’s olst gay bar to close s doors - Lonely Pla

Contents:

• GIGI’S CELEBRAT 50 YEARS: THE OLST GAY-OWNED GAY BAR DETRO IS NOW A HALF-CENTURY OLD
• SAN FRANCIS’S OLST GAY BAR TO CLOSE S DOORS
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• AT’S OLST GAY BAR SET TO BE MOLISHED
• ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS ON TRACK TO BEE CY LANDMARK

GIGI’S CELEBRAT 50 YEARS: THE OLST GAY-OWNED GAY BAR DETRO IS NOW A HALF-CENTURY OLD

Gigi’s, one of the most beloved and rpected gay bars on the Michigan map, is celebratg a tone few venu manage to reach — 50 years the bs.

As was Rosalyn Delight, whose signature number was a Crystal Gayle parody lled “Donuts Make My Brown Ey Blue, ” durg which she actually threw donuts – day olds, I’m told, to the dience. In 1973, 35-year-old Tony Garne, a former grocer, acquired the bar and turned all the way gay. The Woodward Bar & Grill Midtown held the distctn of beg Detro’s olst gay bar until s untimely mise by a three-alarm fire last year.

Some nearby straight neighbors weren’t too happy to have a homo bar on the block. Chi relled Garne as a “very genero man who red about gay kids and wanted them to have a place where they belonged.

SAN FRANCIS’S OLST GAY BAR TO CLOSE S DOORS

It’s been a bar sce 1910 and a gay bar sce at least 1961 but San Francis’s olst gay bar, Gangway, is the latt place to feel the force of gentrifitn the cy’s Tenrlo neighbourhood.

Gangway was one of several gay bars the Tenrlo, the cy’s ma gay hub for many years, most of which have now closed. There’s no fal word on what the bar will bee though another, non-gay bar looks most likely.

The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world. Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St. The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur.

—Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli.

—Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars. When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce. —Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic?

AT’S OLST GAY BAR SET TO BE MOLISHED

It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria.

It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood. It brought the gay and straight muni together the ‘90s wh clever baret programmg. But perhaps most signifintly, gave the gay muny of Boston somethg sperately need: visibily.

ONE OF NEW YORK CY'S OLST GAY BARS ON TRACK TO BEE CY LANDMARK

While other gay bars of the time were basements or board up, Club Cafe faced by Columb Avenue wh floor to ceilg wdows. Big Chicks serv a diverse crowd— ’s young, ’s old, ’s one of the only plac you’ll see gay men and lbians together! —Dave HolmCourtyChigo: Carol’s Pub Not every gay bar is explicly a gay bar.

They jt have major gay vib and lots of queer upl makg out the bathroom. The legendary hoeband, Diamondback, has a 25, 000-song repertoire and a boot llectn that uld make a gay wboy cry.

While you won’t fd any Pri flags at Farraguts, you will undoubtedly hear Cele Dn and Melissa Etheri blarg om the bar’s dty, old jebox and, hontly, isn’t that jt as gay? CourtyDallas: Round-Up SaloonEqual parts wboy boots and dis ball, Round Up Saloon opened 42 years ago Dallas as a gay untry wtern dance hall.