Triad Cy Beat | Barstool: A gay bar, reimaged

Contents:

• GAY GREENSBORO TRAVEL GUI
• GAY NORTH CAROLA TRAVEL GUI
• BARSTOOL: A GAY BAR, REIMAGED
•  NORTH CAROLA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE BEST GREENSBORO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GREENSBORO
• IS CHEMISTRY NIGHTCLUB EXCLIVELY A GAY NIGHTCLUB?
•  NORTH CAROLA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
•  NORTH CAROLA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• SAVE GAY BARS
• FOR 16 YEARS, CHARLOTTE’S ONLY GAY SPORTS BAR HAS BEEN LGBTQ+ HAVEN
• GAY WSTON-SALEM
• GAY NIGHTLIFE RICHMOND: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
• THE BEST ASHEVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ASHEVILLE

GAY GREENSBORO TRAVEL GUI

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— Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. Gay Greensboro. Home to seven lleg and universi, gay welg Greensboro has an active and young LGBT populatn.

You will fd gay bars, clubs and activi while visg.

GAY NORTH CAROLA TRAVEL GUI

Beach, Mountas, Forts, Rural, and cy life; North Carola offers a ltle of everythg for gay travelers.

Gay North Carola. After a bs, the owner of Q Lounge — later known simply as the Q — planned to close Greensboro’s longstandg gay bar. Cozzi and Wofford, who opened the gay nightclub Chemistry, didn’t want to see yet another muny hub turn to a memory.

In s fal era unr the prev owner, Q had e to be known as more of a lbian bar than a gay one, Cozzi said, likely due part to the closure of Time Out.

BARSTOOL: A GAY BAR, REIMAGED

Q Bar will reta s role as an LGBT muny stutn, he said, gturg to a sign om the old rnatn that he stalled on a wall near the ont door proclaimg Q as a gay bar where all are wele. Gay bars ed to be hh-hh sort of plac, Cozzi said, almost like dark dungeons.

Havg moved to Greboro only a few months ago, I was lookg for a downtown gay bar that uld be my "go to" place. CBL is a group of awome gay men of the Carolas (but actually om all over!! We have pri beg gay and unrstand the tenuons of life and the sire to live fully and richly.

 NORTH CAROLA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

It is the missn of Carola Bear Lodge to provi opportuni for s members to socialize a safe hospable settg; to project a posive image and crease awarens of the bear subculture: and to ntribute to the betterment of the gay muny and society as a whole. We also feel that is important to prent a posive image to the gay muny and the muny at large. The gay bear "scene" has moved om subculture to the gay mastream the past few years, and the Carolas this is no different, thanks part to large-sle events like Bear Hunt Weekend.

At this pot, beard, hky guys domate much of Carolas gay party ns or excursns, om the mountas to the beach, bears flock om all over to go to the awome "bear ns.

THE BEST GREENSBORO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS GREENSBORO

Save Gay Bars. Des om now, I’ll look back on my g out and my g of age this cy and I’ll be thankful for Gay Bars – where I have shared lghs and gossip wh iends, doled out dollar bills to drag performers and, on more than one ocsn, shed dnken tears after a strsful week. Gay bars protect those people.

>>>> Chub:: a heavy set gay man. >>>> Wolf:: A lean, mascule gay man who is attracted to bears and volved the bear scene. Notably prent pagan muni where beg gay is predomantly accepted.

IS CHEMISTRY NIGHTCLUB EXCLIVELY A GAY NIGHTCLUB?

On a recent Thursday night at Sil Sports Bar & Billiards, Charlotte’s first and only gay sports bar, lghter and groans n be heard om the directn of the pool table as ctomers gather around , watchg someone take their shot.

” This is what feels like to spend time at Sil, Charlotte’s gay sports bar that has been a staple for 16 Friends Kev Cooper and Alex Sclair opened Sil 2007. “The nict thg about the crowd [is] that ’s always been diverse — we get gays, straights and lbians, ” Cooper said. Sil works wh Bar Argon, a gay dance bar loted next door that both Cooper and Sclair own, to host special events.

 NORTH CAROLA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

“I had this guy yell at me bee his girliend brought him here and didn’t know was a gay bar, ” Cooper said. “We also work wh other gay bars to let each other know if there’s an event or a problem arisg, ” Cooper said. Cooper also hop to start a “gayborhood, ” brgg both Argon and Sil together.

 NORTH CAROLA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

The ci have tight-kn gay muni, but there are fewer gay clubs here the days. Wston-Salem no longer has gay clubs, but PriWS sponsors events throughout the year, and Out At The Movi sponsors monthly LGBTQ film screengs. For larger gay scen look to the nearby ci of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle, or south to Charlotte.

Q Not is the gay publitn for all of North Carola. For map lotns and webse lks to the bs below, and more, see our gay Wston-Salem-Greensboro listgs pag.

Chemistry Nightclub (2901 Sprg Garn St), gay, straight-iendly, 18+ dance club and drag showbar, hot male dancers, gut porn stars; open nightly, Saturdays om 5pm. Q Bar (708 Wt Market St), unpretent 18+ gay lols' bar mix, outdoor space, pool table, special events, BBQs, bgo, WiFi. CO2 (Country Club Rd, Wston-Salem), former Odyssey, gay dance club, drag, strippers; Warehoe 29 (1011 Arnold, Greensboro), gay/alternative dance parti, go-go boys.

SAVE GAY BARS

Gay Nightlife Richmond: Bt Bars, Clubs, & More. This lively cy on the Jam River has a handful of popular gay bars and clubs, pl a few mastream spots wh strong followgs the muny. One of the most gay-iendly neighborhoods is the Fan District near Virgia Commonwealth Universy.

Also, check out the Mm District—cludg the funky Wt End Carytown shoppg area wh s ma drag, Wt Cary Street—and don't miss the cy's gay theater and Pri events. While gay-iendly bars and eateri Richmond may be limed, the reliable on offer excg variety, om game nights and drag shows to we bars wh Mederranean fare.

Bar: A cheerful gay lounge and rtrant and one of the cy's olst gay-owned bs, Bar draws plenty of revelers. Those lookg for some gay-iendly clubbg and live mic Richmond n explore the few top spots, which feature everythg om ladi' nights wh DJs to belly-dancg class and Lat lounge mic.

FOR 16 YEARS, CHARLOTTE’S ONLY GAY SPORTS BAR HAS BEEN LGBTQ+ HAVEN

The popular downtown tablishment Godey's (open to ag 18 and up) is both a gay dance club and rtrant, and 's one of the top venu the state among clubbers, llege stunts, and others.

The crowd is a tch-all of the gay muny, very mixed racially and welg toward men and women of all ag.

GAY WSTON-SALEM

Utilize the var handy rourc, such as, Diversy Richmond, and Richmond Regn Tourism's gay visor se.

GAY NIGHTLIFE RICHMOND: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

If you're planng to vis historic llege town of Charlottville (about 70 mut by r om Richmond), check out the Charlottville Gay Bars and Dg Gui. The Queen Cy has a vibrant and by gay scene, wh somethg happeng virtually every day of the week. The Srp is Charlotte’s olst gay bar and one of the most nsistent for big crowds and wild tim.

The Srp has one of the most diverse crowds of any Charlotte gay bar, by age, race and genr exprsn.

HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI

Sil is the gay sports bar for you. Loted off I-85 and near the airport, The Woodshed is Charlotte’s only gay bar terg specifilly to the leather crowd.

THE BEST ASHEVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ASHEVILLE

By the mid-1920s, at the height of the Prohibn era, they were attractg as many as 7, 000 people of var rac and social class—gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and straight alike. Stonewall (1969) is often nsired the begng of forward progrs the gay rights movement. The Begngs of a New Gay World“In the late 19th century, there was an creasgly visible prence of genr-non-nformg men who were engaged sexual relatnships wh other men major Amerin ci, ” says Chad Heap, a profsor of Amerin Studi at Gee Washgton Universy and the thor of Slummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940.

By the 1920s, gay men had tablished a prence Harlem and the bohemian mec of Greenwich Village (as well as the seedier environs of Tim Square), and the cy’s first lbian enclav had appeared Harlem and the Village. Each gay enclave, wrote Gee Chncey his book Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, had a different class and ethnic character, cultural style and public reputatn. Gay Life the Jazz AgeAs the Uned Stat entered an era of unprecented enomic growth and prospery the years after World War I, cultural mor loosened and a new spir of sexual eedom reigned.