45-year-old Castro gay bar Badlands permanently clos

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• 45-YEAR-OLD CASTRO GAY BAR BADLANDS PERMANENTLY CLOS
• DOWNTOWN PORTLAND WILL GET NEW GAY DANCE CLUB FORMER EMBERS SPACE
• BADLANDS SALOONLAS VEGASMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCISE CLUBSTOURSCY GUIGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPBADLANDS SALOON
• LAS VEGAS GAY DISTRICT: F LOOP
• KUMA CLUB LAS VEGASLAS VEGASMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCISE CLUBSTOURSCY GUIGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPKUMA CLUB LAS VEGAS

45-YEAR-OLD CASTRO GAY BAR BADLANDS PERMANENTLY CLOS

1of2Castro gay bar Badlands, June, Bravo / The Chronicle.

In a sce-leted Facebook post Thursday, the gay bar announced that would not be reopeng and, stead, a different bar will take s place later this year, reported SFist. Badlands was one of the neighborhood’s most popular — and few remag — vio bars, a genre of gay bar that plays vios on giant screens stead of jt mic.

Badlands is the olst gay bar Las Vegas, and the owners believed would be easy to n sce they had an existg ctomer base. The new look is great, by far the classit gay bar Vegas.

DOWNTOWN PORTLAND WILL GET NEW GAY DANCE CLUB FORMER EMBERS SPACE

Badlands Saloon is one of the olst gay bars Las Vegas and has been around for about 30 years. After years of seeg bars close, downtown Portland's gay scene will get a big new nightclub as soon as this November, Portlanrs mourned when nightclub Embers announced would close after 48 years as a bastn of gay culture at the edge of Old Town—an unually sudn end that me about after the owner suffered what the club lled a "massive stroke.

"But the new bs owner the space, TJ Bce, says he plans to "rry on the tradn" the former Embers space at 110 NW Broadway by openg a new gay dance club lled Badlands, as soon as this summer—although timg will pend heavily on the level of renovatns is a 20-year veteran openg bars, wh another spot lled Badlands Sacramento, pl three different nightclubs lled Splash Frno, San Jose and Reno. His two-story, vio-screen-packed San Jose lotn was apparently the most popular Lyft lotn the Bay Area, potential good news for a Portland gay bar scene that hasn't seen a high-profile openg says was his lol ti that led to him takg over the former Embers space. Badlands Saloon is a thirty-year-old bar and the olst gay bar Las Vegas.

Note – if you’re lookg for the update for the Las Vegas gay bar that was featured on Season 8 of Bar Rcue, check out our separate Badlands Saloon Las Vegas update. Walkg up to the door, my kne were shakg om beg so nervo about gog to a gay club, but once , and after meetg so many people, quickly beme my new home. I was new to the gay scene and somehow knew Apex was the place to go.

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’s gay muny along wh Mr. “In 2001, the Washgton Renegas Rugby team hosted the first ternatnal gay gby tournament.

LAS VEGAS GAY DISTRICT: F LOOP

Mark Bgham, gay gby player and [later] hero of 9/11, who had hurt his arm earlier the day and was drkg a pt of beer wh one arm, the other a slg.

“My favore memory of Badlands (and there are, oh, so many) is beg there durg gay pri (late ’80s, early ’90s, back when the para route went down P Street) and all were given squirt guns. My bt gal-pal, wh me at the time lled “the highlight of the gay pub crawl.

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As a hmen at Howard Universy, was the first gay club I was able to attend on a regular basis.

“Like most, Badlands was the first real gay nightclub I went to. Apex was the very first gay club I went to — helped nfirm my feelgs for men.