Rourc for the LGBTQ+ Communy Las Vegas |

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In September, there’s the Nevada Gay Roo, a multiday event at Horseman’s Park wh several social events like wboy bgo, which is hosted each month by the anizatn to create muny year-round. Vegas also featur several muny-md vendors and anizatns to help pull off your special day, wh several regnized by the Gay & Lbian Chamber of Commerce Nevada.

For a young scene a mid-sized cy, gay Las Vegas boasts some ser sprawl.

Like the hog velopments and strip malls that ver the Vegas map like glter on a go-go boy, the lol gay and lbian muny is imprsively spread throughout the valley, all but screamg: we’re here, we’re queer, we’re, of urse, only fuels plats about disnnectn and a lack of a te gayborhood.

And the latter reflects the cltered nature of gay bars Las UNLV-adjacent “F Loop, ” the origal gay hub, still draws boys to Piranha, the least pretent of the gay clubs Las Vegas, and girls to FreeZone, the cy’s honorary lbian club.

Over revalized downtown—home to the new $4-ln Gay and Lbian Communy Center of Southern Nevada—the only out-and-proud drkery is the 38-year-old Snick’s Place, though lively East Fremont piano bar Don’t Tell Mama and hip Arts District urban lounge Artifice are unofficial homo of downtown, the agg Commercial Center reprents the gay alternative, hostg everythg om poker bars (Badlands Saloon and Spotlight Lounge) to a trans-iendly dive (Las Vegas Lounge) to cisg facili (Entourage Spa and Hawk’s Gym) to a boys’ clothg/accsory store (The Rack) wh an attached performance space attached (Onyx Theatre) and ample LGBT programmg. Krave, former kg of the gay clubs Las Vegas, is now back mid-Strip at the Tommy Wd Theatre after a failed attempt at a downtown expansn.

Gay Las Vegas has e a long way, but still isn’t S Cy. Two new LGBTQIA hog uns for vulnerable persons, which flowed om the love of two gay men for each other, have now opened Las Vegas. Jon had moved to the cy at age 17 to pe ral Oklahoma and was quickly adopted by two gay dads who beme his parents of choice.

He beme active the gay rights movement through the Mattache Society and the Society for Individual Rights (SIR). Jon and Cl ntued their social activism the Santa Barbara gay muny and were early volunteers for AIDS CAP (Counselg and Assistance Program) beg re buddi for people livg wh AIDS. Cl learned of a young gay man Montana who was beaten and kicked out by his father when he disvered his son was gay.

In the past, Bright Star also helped to provi an LGBTQIA safety dorm at the Salvatn Army, to provi a safer place for those fear of experiencg homo/transphobia at the hands of other patrons.

Jt off the ma drag, on Paradise Road, the lovgly ed F Loop is home to several gay bars and nightclubs cludg Piranha Nightclub, QUADZ, and FreeZone Nightclub and Bar. Drag asi, Las Vegas has tons to offer LGBTQ visors and the thoands of temporary and permanent lols that populate s shows, hotels, rtrants, and attractns, not to mentn s wi array of die downtown bs and thrivg creative culture the Arts District, which saw addn of a brand new gay bar Sprg 2020, The Garn.

There's also Las Vegas' famed gay nightlife zone jt east of the strip, affectnately known as the "F Loop. Overseen by the pany's openly gay Senr Vice Print of Bs Development, Jerry Nadal, they clu the eye-poppg, stunt-filled fantasia Ka, the Beatl mic-driven Love, lerally water-filled O, burlque revue Zumany, Michael Jackson One, and Cirque's gural Las Vegas productn, which opened 1993, Mystere at Treasure Island.

Most gay bars are loted the F Loop to the strip's east, and que a few offer gamg mach wh, cludg one of the longt-nng Las Vegas LGBTQ nightlife venu, Freezone Las Vegas. The handiwork of S Cy's novative LGBT nightlife promoter Eduardo Cordova, brand new gay bar The Garn opened Downtown's Arts District 2020. Celebratg s tenth anniversary 2021, neighborhood-y gay sports bar The Garage is also 24/7, and playful wh s to body shop theme and r.