Nashville's first gay bars — The Jungle, Juana's — get historil marker

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• THE BEST NASHVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NASHVILLE
• MOVG TO LGBT NASHVILLE, TENNSEE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• NASHVILLE GAY MAP
• NASHVILLE GAY DANCE CLUBS
• A PLACE 'WHERE YOU FELT SAFE': NASHVILLE'S FIRST GAY BARS REMEMBERED WH HISTORIL MARKER
• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
• GAY NASHVILLE · MID-RANGE HOTELS

THE BEST NASHVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NASHVILLE

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The cy’s first two rerd gay bars — the Jungle and Juana’s — opened Downtown Nashville the 1950s, where they served as havens for LGBTQ+ Nashvillians until the early 1980s. If Nashville’s gay bars were Zodiac signs, Play would be a Gemi: the buildg nnects two spac rooms that feel like pletely different bars. Tribe is a gulp-and-gab gay bar where groups gather to chat on the three-tiered outdoor ck, shoot rounds of pool, or pregame before htg Play’s dance floor, nveniently loted next door.

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