Owner Spencer Hurd moled Licht after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany
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- LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
- THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.
- GAY BARS, RIP
- A GAY NIGHTCLUB ULD MAKE A RETURN TO D.C. — A FORMER BAPTIST CHURCH
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
Owner Spencer Hurd moled Licht after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany. His dream: lnchg a cktail bar moled after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany.
THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.
“The goal is to foc on the classic cktails, rather than jt vodka-sodas and rose Kennedys, as you may get at other gay bars, ” he says. Licht Café is a reference to the spiratn om his go-to gay spot Mannheim, but also reflects his ial zy space.
“I love art and sign, ” Hurd says, “and I wanted to make the bar unapologetilly gay. “I want the to be a bid edgy—this is a part of gay culture. The U Street NW strip’s gay bar scene is on the up as of late.
Kiki owner Keaton Fedak, the former general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose, will expand Kiki to the next-door space that formerly hoed dive Dodge Cy.
GAY BARS, RIP
“We’re hopg to make a gayborhood Shaw, ” he told Eater last month.
Meet Kiki, an Excg New Gay Bar Replacg a Pair of Shuttered Shaw Div.
Val Dupont Gay Bar Cobalt Is Closg After Two Des. DC's gay strip clubs are cidly different.
A GAY NIGHTCLUB ULD MAKE A RETURN TO D.C. — A FORMER BAPTIST CHURCH
Instead of beg sttered, the gay clubs are one lotn–off South Capol Street, Southeast, verno wareho. Far om feelg like neighborhood bars, the gay clubs are explicly sexual. About a dozen televisns show hard-re gay pornography.
They opened the first gay club the warehoe district south of the Capol.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
Now there are some half dozen gay strip clubs, theaters, and bathho the area.
"[Gays] have been g down here for 30 years, and they're all worried to ath. Councilman Jack Evans acknowledg that the gay clubs the area face a difficult suatn. Neighborhood was once known as “The Gay Way, ” due to the number of LGBT tablishments on the street durg the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s.
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