Licht Café, D.C.’s Newt Gay Bar, Is a Cozy, Art-Filled U Street Hiaway  - Eater DC

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D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

Wh our LGBT gui to Washgton, DC, disver all the bt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr bars, clubs, nightlife and more * gay and lesbian bars in washington dc *

The natn's pal is home to a lively LGBTQ+ nightlife scene wh plenty of gay and lbian bars jt wag for you to jo on the fun.

Larry’s Lounge is a gay neighborhood pub, wh always-affordable drks, solid happy hour specials, mouth-waterg pub fare (see: sweet potato tots) and one of the cy’s iendlit pats (you n brg your dog, too!).

Number Ne to the btlg Logan Circle urty of -founr Ed Bailey, who helped DC’s gay nightlife scene to grow durg his days as a DJ. Suated right the heart of Adams Man’s btlg 18th Street is Pchers, a gay sports bar, and A League of Her Own, the adjacent bar for lbian and queer women. 's evolvg gayborhood has shifted towards Logan Circle and U Street.

BT GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS WASHGTON DC

In Febary 2016, the Washgton Bla noted an "unual flurry of activy" wh the openg of four new gay bars, the majory of which land the U Street/Shaw/Logan Circle area. Those spots and more sports bars, dance clubs, and cktail havens are all clud Eater's round up of the District's gay-iendlit bars and hangouts. New gay dive bar Tra opened last year, urty of the team behd Town Danceboutique and Number Ne.

THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.

New to the Shaw/U Street gay bar scene is Uproar, which buted last year.

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A b out-of-the - way-tucked an alley behd the Donovan Hoe Hotel Downtown DC - the Green Lantern is a cult-favore of DC's over-thirty gay muny....

LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

Combg baret, high-energy dance floors and a plh lounge, Town Danceboutique draws a diverse crowd as DC's largt gay nightclub. Though primarily a gay scene, everyone is wele... A neighborhood favore, the dog-iendly rner pat at gay-owned Larry's Lounge is a fantastic people-watchg spot the early afternoon or eveng.

Henry's has been servg pub food and live mic to a gay clientele sce the 1960s. Historil marker HM1M14 on the Columbia Heights Herage Trail is all that remas of Nob Hill, one of Ameri's first openly gay bars for and n by Ain...

The Navy Yard neighborhood was home to many gay bars, cludg Joanna’s and Club Madame. Around the cy, lbian d spac or gay bars wh lbian nights numbered at least 15 acrdg to lol historian Ty Gter at the DC Dykari history project.

THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.

DC is among Ameri’s gayt plac, wh the most recent Gallup poll fdg 8. 6 percent of rints self-intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Then Augt, as if Diana herself had shot a big gay arrow right to the target of the natn, there were two.

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