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Contents:

• FATE OF STONEWALL LEHIGH VALLEY, A BELOVED GAY BAR, UP AIR AFTER LIKELY BUILDG SALE
• VOGUE LOUNGE OPENG SOON AT STONEWALL SE. LEHIGH VALLEY WILL ONCE AGA HAVE A GAY BAR.
•  PENNSYLVANIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• VALLEY’S LGBTQ FD UNIQUE WAYS TO FILL VOID LEFT BY CLOSURE OF STONEWALL, OTHER GAY BARS
•  PENNSYLVANIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• STONEWALL LEHIGH VALLEY, ALLENTOWN’S LAST REMAG GAY BAR, REOPENS
• ‘STONEWALL MEMORI PROJECT’ PRERVG LANDMARK GAY BAR’S LEGACY
•  PENNSYLVANIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

FATE OF STONEWALL LEHIGH VALLEY, A BELOVED GAY BAR, UP AIR AFTER LIKELY BUILDG SALE

Allentown Gay bars and clubs by distance. Allentown Gay Bars and Clubs om ClubFly. ClubFly provis a gay bar, club, nightlife, and GLBT center mapper for Allentown, Pennsylvania and the rt of the US.

Allentown gay bars and clubs are mapped the gayborhood wh an overview, tags, ntact tails, webse, social media lks, trans/walkg directns, and drivg directns. Allentown’s last remag gay bar is Stonewall Lehigh Valley.

VOGUE LOUNGE OPENG SOON AT STONEWALL SE. LEHIGH VALLEY WILL ONCE AGA HAVE A GAY BAR.

It’s named after the New York rts of 1969 which helped spawn the gay liberatn movement the US. Love and clivy are at the re of Buffalo’s gay scene.

When gay marriage was legalized the US 2015, Buffalo joyoly raised the pri flag at Cy Hall, our most inic buildg.

The Gayborhood: Allentown. The largt ncentratn of gay bars Buffalo is loted Allentown.

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Also known also as our Arts District, Allentown’s centralizatn of gay bars lends to the bar-hoppg for which Buffalo is notor. Q Bar, Fugazi, Unrground Neclub, and the recently opened Twenty Six (formerly Catho Ray) are some of the most popular tablished gay bars Allentown. The artwork featur 27 LGBTQ+ activists, the progrs pri flag and the Stonewall Inn, notor for beg the se of the 1969 rts that lnched the gay rights movement New York Cy.

The Pri Center of WNY and GLYS WNY (Gay and Lbian Youth Servic) are excellent rourc for the LGBTQ+ muny Buffalo. And wasn’t until she vised the legendary gay nightspot wh a iend that Smh felt at ease beg herself public. This week Richard Smh, one of the club’s owners, nfirmed that the buildg and liquor license are unr ntract to be sold, leavg the future of the Lehigh Valley’s last gay bar unclear.

VALLEY’S LGBTQ FD UNIQUE WAYS TO FILL VOID LEFT BY CLOSURE OF STONEWALL, OTHER GAY BARS

If clos, the Stonewall would follow the path of two other recently shuttered LGBT-foced tablishments the Lehigh Valley and hundreds of other gay bars and clubs across the untry. Natnwi, more than a third of gay bars closed between 2007 and 2019, said Greggor Mattson, associate profsor of soclogy at Oberl College and Conservatory Oh, who piled a database of LGBT clubs and bars.

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While the Lehigh Valley’s work of LGBT anizatns is robt, the Stonewall’s closure would leave the broar regn whout an tablishment to fill the important need gay bars and clubs play muni around the world, say LGBT advot and muny lears.

Mattson, who has studied the role and cle of gay bars small Amerin ci, said a uple of trends have ntributed to the dwdlg number of LGBT bars across the untry. The rise of geolotg smartphone apps, such as Grdr, has to some gree supplanted the role of gay bars as plac for queer people to meet each other, Mattson said.

STONEWALL LEHIGH VALLEY, ALLENTOWN’S LAST REMAG GAY BAR, REOPENS

The Paycheck Protectn Program, for example, vered wag for employe siled by the panmic, but many of the people who work gay bars, cludg performers, are nsired ntractors who were not eligible. Likewise, fundg for performance spac was available only to bs that issued tickets, Mattson said, and while many gay bars and clubs host performers, they llect a ver charge but don’t sell tickets. “Gay bars are almost always mom-and-mom and pop-and-pop shops, ” he said.

‘STONEWALL MEMORI PROJECT’ PRERVG LANDMARK GAY BAR’S LEGACY

Stephen Libby, edor of The Gay Journal, said gay bars played a val support role for LGBT youth before social media ma possible for people to nnect onle and high school gay allianc were monplace.

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“I thk what a lot of people say and echo on Facebook is their memori of a gay bar beg their first place of acceptance, ” he said.

Gay and lbian people have what’s lled “passg privilege, ” bee they appear the same as anyone else, she said.