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• GEE TAKEI, PEREZ HILTON, MICHAEL MTO AND MORE OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR FIRST GAY BAR EXPERIENCE
• INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY
• THE 15 BT GAY BARS NYC TO CHECK OUT
• THE HISTORY OF THE ABBEY, WT HOLLYWOOD'S WORLD-FAMO GAY BAR
• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• ‘MY FIRST GAY BAR’: RACHEL MADDOW, ANDY COHEN AND OTHERS SHARE THEIR COMG-OUT STORI

GEE TAKEI, PEREZ HILTON, MICHAEL MTO AND MORE OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR FIRST GAY BAR EXPERIENCE

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INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY

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THE 15 BT GAY BARS NYC TO CHECK OUT

Vcent Wang -- the popular, UK-based League of Legends ports player better known by his streamg name Bost -- publicly me out as gay a May Twter statement. Though the pop sger has been open about her sexualy for years ( 2019 she told Attu that she was bisexual and an open relatnship), she took to Instagram June to celebrate Pri Month and to talk even further about her sexualy, remdg everyone that she is, fact, a queer in who is "not gay and not straight. "Now is a good time for me bee the Commonwealth Gam is a month's time, and there's gog to be a lot of people watchg that, and there are so many untri the Commonwealth where beg gay is illegal.

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THE HISTORY OF THE ABBEY, WT HOLLYWOOD'S WORLD-FAMO GAY BAR

When you spend your life beg a sexual mory, the gay bar is often the only outlet available to shape a sense of inty, an unrstandg, and a gay bar is often the only outlet available to shape a sense of inty, an unrstandg, and a muny. I didn't yet realize I was gay–and she didn't know yet I was eher–but the subtle msagg that was okay to be gay and that gay spac uld be fun and welg mattered so much to me that when I did eventually beg datg women, she was the first person I Harrison//Getty ImagBryan SafiThe first gay bar I went to was the Wt Village, and I went alone.

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Santiago Felipe//Getty ImagBob the Drag QueenThe first time I went to a gay bar was to the Mad Hatter Columb, Geia, and the drag queen ed to work at the Applebee's. I'll never like anyone better than I like those guys and never like a bar better than I did that ImagRhea ButcherThe first gay bar I ever went to was my hometown of Akron, Oh. And now, oddly enough, we may be the very people who brg about gun reform so that weapons of war no longer end up the hands of manial, simple-md, self-important Cl Dhien//Getty ImagMichael MtoIn the 1970s, I went wh a iend to the Barefoot Boy, a glzy gay dance club on East 39th Street.

GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL

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‘MY FIRST GAY BAR’: RACHEL MADDOW, ANDY COHEN AND OTHERS SHARE THEIR COMG-OUT STORI

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(512) 320-8823BOISE, IDEMERALD CLUBThe olst gay bar Boise attracts a mixed-genr crowd rangg om buffed-and-shed llege kids to olr upl matchg Wtern garb. (903) 887-2061LEXINGTON, KYTHE BAR COMPLEXThe gay crown jewel of historic downtown Lexgton, this nverted speakeasy radiat fad glamour and genteel manners wh s three bars, huge upstairs dance floor, and plenty of dark nooks to enjoy gentleman llers or a mt julep. Manhattan's ever-by gay staple shows no sign of flaggg, and though you really may not re for Mil Mondays, this two-floor Chelsea staple has somethg for everyone'pecially when you're wasted and not too fsy.