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Contents:

• DRAG IS COMG OUT OF THE (GAY BAR) CLOSET ARLGTON
• THE BT GAY BARS BOSTON
•  VIRGIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• ARLGTON’S ONLY GAY BAR IS REOPENG AFTER CLOSG LAST MONTH BEE OF THE COVID-19 PANMIC
• WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?
• GAY BARS NEAR ME
• GAY BARS NEAR ME
• ARLGTON GAY BAR CLOS & RE-OPENS
• THE BT GAY BARS BOSTON
• GAY BARS ARLGTON

DRAG IS COMG OUT OF THE (GAY BAR) CLOSET ARLGTON

(Updated 3/28/19) Drag shows Arlgton are now takg their first high-heeled step outsi the gay bar scene, but members of the scene say hasn’t lost s roots.

But earlier this month, one bar Clarendon began offerg drag bgo nights as gay bs lears say growg mand for the gltery entertament is openg up new doors for drag queens. The show has sce garnered lns of fans onle, lnched molg reers for nttants, and troduced straight viewers to historilly gay slang like “kiki. And As RuPl’s moved om a niche gay televisn work to VH1, so too did drag shows beg movg om the gay bars to the straight pubs.

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But Arlgton is special, Childs and Lutz say, bee tradnally Freddi’ enuraged mglg between the gay populatn and their straight, cis alli. “We jt had gay people start g and mixg wh the dart-throwers.

Lutz add that the tradn of mglg at the bar was cemented by the outbreak of HIV and AIDS, which some rearchers timate claimed the liv of 10 percent of all Ameri’s gay and bisexual men ag between the 22-44 the 90s.

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“It sort of bridged the gap between the gay and the straight muny.

Childs said when she arrived at a show at two weeks ago people were led up outsi the gay bar. Arlgton Gay bars and clubs by distance.

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Raise a glass tonight to the 1851 Club, Arlgton's only gay bar, bee is back bs. (Jim Tuttle / Staff Photographer)The 1851 Club means a lot to Dalton and his iends were regulars, and about two years ago he started an LGBTQ poker night at Arlgton’s only gay bar. “The bar giv gay people a safe place to go and be themselv, ” Hayn said.

WHERE DID FORT WORTH GAY BARS GO?

The ash pile of the Rabow Lounge, Fort Worth’s most inic gay bar and an epicenter of the town’s then-burgeong “gayborhood, ” took wh paful and joyo memori of a gay scene the cy hasn’t been able to replite sce. There are only about half a dozen gay bars Fort Worth.

Jt a few years ago, there was a growg gay bar scene an area south of downtown. When the inic Rabow Lounge burned down 2017, the "gayborhood" permanently changed.

Lol police and TABC agents raid the then recently-opened bar on the 40th anniversary of the raid at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, which set off the Stonewall Rts and gave birth to the morn gay rights movement. The timg of the raid censed the lol gay muny and s supporters. When the Rabow Lounge burned, the number of gay bars the cy was already paratively low.

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Back the early ’80s, the town boasted nearly 20 gay bars. Todd Camp — a lol gay rights activist, -founr and former artistic director and executive director of QCema, Fort Worth's Gay & Lbian Internatnal Film Ftival, the state's longt nng gay film ftival — said the lack of lol gay bars isn’t necsarily a bad sign for the cy.

“The gay muny is the dog that ught the r, ” he said. You n walk to almost any bar the cy of Fort Worth on any given night and fd gay people beg openly gay, kissg, beg emotnal, engagg public displays of affectn wh no fear of repercsns bee, for the most part, people feel fortable.

Camp has been rearchg Fort Worth’s gay history datg back to the turn of the 20th Century for a book he’s wrg. Acrdg to his data, there have been more than 100 gay bars Fort Worth and nearby Arlgton, wh 651 Club the longt-tenured at about 35 years (and the Rabow Lounge was later hoed the same buildg), and a club lled Trixx lastg only one weekend.

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When prohibn end, gays and lbians were forbidn om drkg bars. Other gay clubs opened spe police crackdowns, Camp said.

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“All the gay men would grab a girl and they would start dancg so that when they ps me , they wouldn't be arrted, ” he said. Homosexualy, he said, only really beme taboo the ’50s and ’60s.

Though the gay muny wasn’t tegrated then, lived alongsi the heterosexual muny peacefully.

“No one really had a problem wh gayns. One of the reasons the Fort Worth gay bar scene has been slow to grow sce the 1980s is the lure of Dallas’ thrivg gay scene drawg away people — particularly young people who prefer a more up-tempo dance scene rather than Fort Worth’s more languid e-as-you-are vibe.

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“There was a parkg lot downtown that was famo, bee that was where gays would meet and they would all park and then drive to Dallas bars. Dallas always had a much more thrivg gay scene.

Countls publitns have spent wells of k opg the ath of the gay bar general. San Francis recently lost The Gangway, that cy’s olst, longt-nng gay bar.

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The cycle is now a faiar one: Gays move to a downtrodn area, build up, create a muny, and velopers swoop and price them out of the neighborhood. While the area surroundg the Fort Worth gayborhood has veloped at the pace of the Game of Thron openg, the buildgs and bon of the cross-sectn are still mostly tact. Newly opened Liberty Lounge, though not a gay bar, is very LGBTQ-iendly.

The longt-tenured gay bar Fort Worth isn’t the old gayborhood. “I still firmly believe that the role of the gay bar is still important, bee I still believe that the g out procs is paful, ” Camp said.

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