The number of gay bars has dwdled. A new generatn plans to brg them back. - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• BT GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS WASHGTON DC
• THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

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. 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.

BT GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS WASHGTON DC

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

Tour historic LGBTQ+ s, grab a drk at the bt gay and lbian bars the cy, rock out at Capal Pri and so much more.

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

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....

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...

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

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.

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. A League of Her Own is a garn-level bar wh s own entrance unrneath the shy, iendly, Pchers gay men’s sports bar.

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

The space is unpretent by sign, and McDaniel wants to buck the trend among gay men’s bars of creatg an ‘ele’ experience through wastaff.

“I’m gog back to the way thgs ed to be, ” he said, remiscg about mid-20th-century gay bars, which he said were often mixed spac. “Lbians, the gay people, the transgenr people — whatever you intify — were forced to go to this one bar, ” he said.

”After World War II, as people migrated to big ci, gay and lbian bars proliferated across the U. S., acrdg to Lillian Farman, thor of “Gay L. “There are gay centers, there’s onle datg, there are chatrooms — there are jt so many possibili for lbians to meet each other now that didn’t ed to exist, " she was said to be the last lbian bar New Orleans, Rubyu Jungle, closed 2012; Philalphia's Sisters closed a year later; and San Francis lost the Lexgton is no data behd why so many lbian bars have vanished, but Farman speculated that one reason is, part, fancial: Women tend to have ls disposable e than men, makg harr for the bars to open and operate.