LGBT Nightlife | Columb Gay Friendly Bars and Clubs

Contents:

• TWO NEW BARS THE GAYBORHOOD ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE OF LOR, MARKG A MAJOR SHIFT
• HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• GAY MEMPHIS
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

TWO NEW BARS THE GAYBORHOOD ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE OF LOR, MARKG A MAJOR SHIFT

Two bars opened recently the Gayborhood that are owned and operated by people of lor, markg a big culture shift for the LGBTQ enclave Center Cy, where racism has been documented for years.

Racism has been scribed as prevalent Philly’s gay nightlife sce at least the 1980s. Philly drag queen Ta Montgomery has felt the unrcurrent of racism the Gayborhood for her entire reer.

The Gayborhood is further gentrifyg now — ’s often lled Midtown Village, and wel jt as many straight bachelorette parti as queer ctomers.

HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC

” She hop this is jt the start of a diversifyg Gayborhood. “Everybody says 13th Street is not gay anymore, ” said Cockatoo owner Krishnan. Could the diversifyg nightlife scene help rid the Gayborhood of racism?

“What I love about Black people, there’s a rilience , and if you’re Black and gay, ’s even stronger, ” he explaed. At plac like Alibi, they n feel at down the street om Alibi — a quick, five-mute walk so close that hoppg a r would feel like a waste of gas — is Lambda Lounge, the neighborhood’s only other Black-owned gay bar. “I really wanted the Black muny to have good optns, to not only have to go to Chelsea for a gay bar.

We have a lol gay bar! ”Though the gradual shift om summer’s warmth to wter’s chill has put an end to that specific sense of outdoor mararie, Alibi and Lambda still offer a wele change of pace om the gay bars of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Not only are Mko, Hugh, and Solomon an spiratn for lnchg succsful bs as out and proud Black gay men, but what they’ve created — a safe space for queer people a neighborhood not typilly known for embracg s LGBTQ+ populatn — has life-changg agre.

THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA

I jt knew that if Alibi had closed down, was gog to be the same script, the same story: Oh, another gay, Black bs nnot survive. "While we’ll never know whether Lambda would have opened if Alibi had shut down, we do know that havg two gay, Black-owned bs is always better than one. “I feel honored to be a part of our queer history, ” Hugh said when asked about this new gayborhood.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Before we prent you wh our list of bt gay bars Philalphia, a few tertg facts about the lol LGBTQ scene: almost every LGBTQ-centric statn the cy is found Gayborhood, an enclave Center Cy Philalphia that has quickly bee one of the most regnize neighborhoods town. Charl: So people ll the “gay cheers” (lghs). Now we’re, we’re broang our market segment to not jt target mal, but pretty much all the letters wh the LGBTQ+ Some straight women feel safer attendg gay bars.

Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street. The venue is the only Latx gay bar LA that explicly ters to a gay and Mexin dience every night, not jt as a theme once a week.

But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology.

GAY MEMPHIS

The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny. Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach. One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Dubbed by KCET as Montebello’s bt Lato gay bar, Chi is the sister to Club Cobra, servg as a groundg se for the queer Latx muny the suburbs of East LA. It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi. In 1962, openly gay Ain-Amerin entreprenr Harold “Mackie” Harris purchased the Starle Lounge and tablished as an LGBT-clive bar.

Before beg forced to close 2010 after the buildg was sold, the Starle was known as the “olst black-owned non-discrimatg bar New York” and an important long-time gatherg space for the gay Black muny. Formerly loted the buildg at the rner of Bergen Street and Nostrand Avenue Crown Heights, the Starle Lounge was tablished by openly gay Ain-Amerin entreprenr Harold “Mackie” Harris as an LGBT-clive bar 1962. Starle was possibly the first Black-owned gay bar Brooklyn, terg to LGBT people of lor at a time when the Mafia operated most LGBT bars New York.

It went om beg a neighborhood bar the ’50s and early ’60s to beg really an stutn the gay black muny.