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• FOR PRI MONTH AND BEYOND, HERE ARE 10 SENTIAL GAY BARS PHOENIX AND STTSDALE
• THIS PHOENIX SPOT IS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE US — EVEN THOUGH 'S NOT A GAY BAR
• PODST REUNTS HISTORY OF VERMONT’S FIRST GAY BAR
•  ARIZONA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY PHOENIX / STTSDALE TRAVEL GUI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• MOSW GAY MAP
• PHOENIX GAY SNAS
• GAY CISG SPOTS

FOR PRI MONTH AND BEYOND, HERE ARE 10 SENTIAL GAY BARS PHOENIX AND STTSDALE

But if you are on the lookout for some of metro Phoenix's bt gay and lbian bars, keep readg. 602-266-9001 Far om the leather bars, rabow-flagged snas and diva-filled disthequ elsewhere, Bar 1 is sual gay nightlife that still knows how to have fun. (Historilly, 's been more of a gay male crowd, but everyone’s ved, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

THIS PHOENIX SPOT IS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE US — EVEN THOUGH 'S NOT A GAY BAR

602-265-0224 Charlie’s is a slice of Phoenix gay bar history that has huddled along Camelback Road jt wt of Seventh Avenue sce s but 1984.

PODST REUNTS HISTORY OF VERMONT’S FIRST GAY BAR

In those days, the “lil bty ol’ pissant untry place” and dance hall opened by John Kg (-founr of the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn) was aimed at gay urban wboys and untry mic fans. 602-254-0231 The expansive, lorfully-l dance floor at this gay dance club is almost always packed wh bodi, whether 's boys dancg wh boys, gals gettg down wh other gals, or var other batns. 602-264-5307 The current Kobalt is the send lotn of this Park Central gay bar.

 ARIZONA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

Click to enlarge Nu Towne Saloon is the olst gay bar Phoenix. 602-267-9959 Open sce 1971, Nu Towne Saloon has earned landmark stat as the Valley’s olst gay bar still operatn.

602-200-9154 Pat O’s puts the “G” the Melrose District’s LGBTQ+ scene — s clientele is largely gay men, many of whom are unabashedly members or fans of the bear or leathermen subcultur.

Former owner and namake Pat Olivo (a fixture the lol gay scene for s) died March 2022, but this bar ntu his legacy.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Wh s roomy terr (’s a former home nverted s ago), a large bar, var tabl and untertops, relics om now-funct lol gay bars and plenty of playful banter and flickerg lghter are wag. The one thg all the spots on this list have mon: They ve ctomers to e as they 's somethg for everyone at the 10 sential metro Phoenix gay bars. 602-248-8559, 'It's about feelg weled':How gay youth fd belongg Phoenix's ballroom sceneAnvilAnvil, a bar loted on Thomas Road east of 24th Street, dubs self a "Leather and Levi" bar and wel those who want to don their gear and those who don't, jt the same.

602-264-5307, Towne SaloonKnown as the olst gay bar metro Phoenix, Nu Towne Saloon fds s home across the street om the stacked layers of the Tovrea Castle.

GAY PHOENIX / STTSDALE TRAVEL GUI

BarMidtown Phoenix neighborhood the Melrose District may be packed wh gay bars, but they don't all ter to the dus. Esquire jt published s list of the untry's 32 bt gay bars om Alaska to Washgton, D.

MOSW GAY BARS

Contributors om across the untry helped Esquire put together the lp of bars that clud classics and newers alike, om Oasis  San Francis, an 8, 000 square-foot bathhoe turned baret that has hosted nttants om RuPl's Drag Race to The Boatslip Provcetown, famo for s three-hour Tea Dance, and New York Cy's olst gay bar, Juli. " Esquire's Market Edor Alfonso Fernanz Navas suggted when the team set out to make the Burke, a ntributg edor at Esquire, GQ, The New York Tim and Travel & Leisure, selected Valley Bar Phoenix as his Valley Bar is an LGBTQ+ iendly bar, and a fabulo staple of downtown nightlife, a gay bar is not.

Gaymers to RuPl:10 inic events that shaped Arizona's LGBTQ+ munyWhat is Valley Bar?

"It's a ol spot and clive (you may have seen the rabow flag hangg over the entrance durg pri), but 's not a gay bar.

MOSW GAY MAP

So, s cln on this list is a b puzzlg, pecially nsirg there are plenty of historic LGBTQ+ spots the Valley worth the neighbors:This rtrant is movg to historic Teeter Hoe downtownValley Bar is ol, but a weird choice for bt gay barPhoenix has s fair share of gay bars and drag clubs, many the Melrose District along Seventh Avenue. So, while we're always hyped when our cy gets natnal regnn, when to celebratg our LGBTQ+ nightlife, we'll stick to spots like Nu Towne Saloon, one of the olst gay bars Phoenix, open sce 1971. It's a welg, kschy spot on 50th and Van Buren streets, known for over the top Christmas ratns that seem to stay up almost year round and bartenrs who know most of the patrons by there's Cis' 7th, a gay and trans-iendly bar that opened  1977 on Roosevelt as Cis' Central.

10 sential gay bars metro Phoenix:For Pri month and the reporter at Follow @banooshahr on Twter. Voted #1 Gay Bar Phoenix Arizona, by our ctomers. Acrdg to Arizona’s Hip Historian Marshall Shore, who has lived Phoenix sce before the cy had a "gayborhood, ” the regn's LGBTQ+ history dat back to First Natn's people and the ia of two spirs.

The days, everyone knows what a gayborhood is and where to fd one — even Phoenix. What distguish this gayborhood is the inic Melrose Arch, one of Phoenix's two rabow crosswalks, a larger-than-life rabow mural on the si of Stacy's @ Melrose (don't miss this photo op), s annual street fair and, of urse, the welg atmosphere.

PHOENIX GAY SNAS

Corona Ranch and Roo Grounds was home to Arizona's first gay roo 1984, and at the time, Arizona was only the fifth state to host an event of this kd. The Arizona Gay Roo Associatn, which was one of the foundg members of the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn, is still gog strong 30-pl years later.

At the same time the Arizona Gay Roo began, John Kg and Kenny Cunz opened Charlie's Phoenix, a untry-themed gay bar Phoenix's Melrose District. Phoenix has a history of hostg gay pri-themed events that predate the Phoenix Pri anizatn we know today. In June 1977, the cy's first gay pri week was anized by the cy’s LGBTQ+ muny at the time and,  1981, the first pri para took to the streets.

This hip, historic neighborhood near downtown was Phoenix's first and, perhaps only, "gay ghetto.

GAY CISG SPOTS

" In the 1970s, middle class gay whe men began movg to the area and renovated many of the midcentury hom. FLEX Spas Phoenix is a private gay men’s club. Cozy apartments, private rooms and amazg hom: be weled by the gay muny over 200 untri.

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