The Queer Oasis of Jackson, Mississippi's Lone Gay Bar

Contents:

• THE BEST JACKSON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON
•  MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• WONRLTSEE ALL THGS TO DO{"@TYPE":"LOLBS","NAME":"WONRLT","URL":"\","ADDRS":{"@TYPE":"POSTALADDRS","STREETADDRS":"3911 NORTHVIEW DR","ADDRSLOLY":"JACKSON","ADDRSREGN":"MISSISSIPPI","ADDRSCOUNTRY":"UNED STAT","POSTALCO":"39206-5206"},"AGGREGATERATG":{"@TYPE":"AGGREGATERATG","RATGVALUE":"5.0","REVIEWCOUNT":1},"@NTEXT":"HTTP:\U002F\"}SEE ALL THGS TO DOWONRLT51 REVIEW#5 OF 9 NIGHTLIFE JACKSONGAY BARS • DANCE CLUBS & DISSREAD MOREVIS WEBSECALLEMAILWRE A REVIEWWHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYG“<3”JUL 2018BT LTLE LGBT+ BAR JACKSON <3 FUN, WELG, AND GREAT BARTENRS. SATURDAY NIGHT DRAG SHOW IS ALWAYS A BLAST SUGGT EDS TO IMPROVE WHAT WE SHOW.IMPROVE THIS LISTGBE THE FIRST TO UPLOAD A PHOTOUPLOAD A PHOTOTOP WAYS TO EXPERIENCE NEARBY ATTRACTNSAMAZG LET’S ROAM JACKSON SVENGER HUNT: PRETTY MISSISSIPPI!FUN & GAMOM $12.31 PER ADULTJACKSON PUZZLG ADVENTUREADVENTURE TOURSOM $34.95 PER GROUP (UP TO 12)PARTICIPATE A FUN SVENGER HUNT JACKSON BY OPERATN CY QUTFUN & GAMOM $10.00 PER ADULTZOMBIE SVENGERS GAME - JACKSON, MSFUN & GAMOM $20.00 PER GROUP (UP TO 10)SPECIAL OFFERJACKSON JIG SVENGER HUNTFUN & GAMOM $27.00 $21.60 PER ADULTTHE AREA ADDRS3911 NORTHVIEW DR, JACKSON, MS 39206-5206FULL VIEWBT NEARBYRTRANTS138 WH 3 KRYSTAL30.2 MIAMERINSUBWAY10.2 MIAMERIN • FAST FOOD • DELIBURGER KG30.2 MILOU'S BAR & GRILL40.3 MIBIG APPLE INN80.4 MITHE PIG & PT6110.8 MI$$ - $$$ • BARBECUE • GASTROPUB • BEER RTRANTSRALLY'S10.5 MIAMERINMCDONALD'S10.5 MIWALKER'S DRIVE IN5900.9 MI$$$$ • CONTEMPORARY • VEGETARIAN FRIENDLY • VEGAN OPTNSSALTE2290.9 MI$$ - $$$ • AMERIN • CAJUN & CREOLE • BARSEE ALLATTRACTNS78 WH 6 MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MM3601.9 MICHILDREN'S MMSMISSISSIPPI MM OF NATURAL SCIENCE3242.1 MINATURAL HISTORY MMSMISSISSIPPI CIVIL RIGHTS MM230ART GALLERI • SPECIALY MMSMISSISSIPPI STATE CAPOL267HISTORIC S • POTS OF INTERT & LANDMARKSMISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURAL & FORTRY MM1341.4 MISPECIALY MMSEUDORA WELTY HOE AND GARN1252.2 MISPECIALY MMS • HISTORIC SOLD CAPOL MM218HISTORIC S • ARCHECTURAL BUILDGSDULG HALL30.9 MITHEATERSMEDGAR EVERS HOME982.1 MIHISTORIC SMISSISSIPPI MM OF ART147ART MMSSEE ALLCONTRIBUTEWRE A REVIEWUPLOAD A PHOTOREVIEWSQ&AFILTERSENGLISHMOST RECENTDETAILED REVIEWS: REVIEWS ORR RMED BY SCRIPTIVENS OF ER-INTIFIED THEM SUCH AS CLEANLS, ATMOSPHERE, GENERAL TIPS AND LOTN RMATN.5.01 REVIEWEXCELLENT1VERY GOOD0AVERAGE0POOR0TERRIBLE0ER MCLTON, MS19 NTRIBUTNS0JUL 2018 • FRIENDSBT LTLE LGBT+ BAR JACKSON READ MOREWRTEN JULY 26, 2018THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.NO QUTNS HAVE BEEN ASKED ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCEASK A QUTNALSO POPULAR WH TRAVELERSSEE ALLUNRGROUND 11918BARS & CLUBSFZGERALD'S AT THE HILTON JACKSON8BARS & CLUBSHAL & MAL'S2BLU BARSFENIAN'S PUB6BARS & CLUBSFONDREN ART GALLERY2ART GALLERI • BLU BARSLIBRARY LOUNGE10BARS & CLUBSLET'S ROAM JACKSONCY TOURS • BAR, CLUB & PUB TOURSBLACK SILHOUETTE WEARBAR, CLUB & PUB TOURS • TAXIS & SHUTTLIS THIS YOUR TRIPADVISOR LISTG?OWN OR MANAGE THIS PROPERTY? CLAIM YOUR LISTG FOR EE TO RPOND TO REVIEWS, UPDATE YOUR PROFILE AND MUCH MORE.CLAIM YOUR LISTGWONRLT (JACKSON) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
• THE BEST MISSISSIPPI GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MISSISSIPPI
• REACTN POSIVE TO JACKSON'S NEW GAY BAR, CLUB DETOUR
• INSI THE HOTTT GAY BAR THE MOST HOMOPHOBIC STATE THE NATN
•  MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAYT PLAC IN MISSISSIPPI FOR 2020
•  MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• HOW TO MEET GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

THE BEST JACKSON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSON

Ask them where their first gay bar was, and they'll likely give you a different answer each time.

Formerly another gay bar named Bottoms Up, 's unrgone new ownership, but attracts the same old crowd.

And although livg as a gay uple Mississippi hasn't been the stereotypil opprsive nightmare some outsirs might thk is, they still turn heads durg their day-to-day life.

 MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

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"You may not be gay, right.

She said racial l do not disappear si the gay clubs:. Each year, SONG holds an annual membership event lled Gaytn, where LGBTQ folks om across the South get together for a few days of mpg, partyg, relaxg, and buildg muny.

THE BEST MISSISSIPPI GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MISSISSIPPI

1523, Gaytn rolled around. "It's jt a bunch of queers, gays, our fai, grandparents, ltle kids, and everyone between at a mpground the middle of the woods.

Who will say, 'If they weren't queer, if they weren't gay, they wouldn't have been there, and they wouldn't have gotten killed. It was the last day of Gaytn. When a new gay bar opened Jackson last month, lol rint Kenh Griff-Mohney was surprised, to say the least.

Jackson has a reputatn for beg a socially nservative town, so Griff-Mohney and his partner, Jam Warner, were exced but skeptil about the openg of a gatherg place for the gay muny.

REACTN POSIVE TO JACKSON'S NEW GAY BAR, CLUB DETOUR

"Club Detour appears to be the first bar Jackson to openly advertise as a gay bar. Some see the lack of prott to the new tablishment as a sign that Jackson is beg more acceptg of the gay muny.

On July 1, she opened Club Detour as a place for gay men and women ag 18 and olr to mgle and enjoy entertament such as karaoke, go-go dancers and "drag nights. "I get as many straight people as I get gay people. "Lorrae Hampton, of PFLAG (Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) Jackson, gets the imprsn that Jackson is a live-and-let-live kd of muny.

INSI THE HOTTT GAY BAR THE MOST HOMOPHOBIC STATE THE NATN

"I thk most of the folks Jackson don't re if people want to go to a gay bar, " she said.

" She said more people are beg tolerant of gay people bee they know someone who is gay and therefore are ls like to harbor negative perceptns and fears about them. " Jackson rint Missie Man said she feels that the cy has slowly bee more open to the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny.

However, she was surprised to hear about a gay bar openg here. More than likely, more young people — gay or straight — might go jt to try somethg new, Keller said. " Tony De Or, -print of PFLAG Detro, said discrimatn — such as name-llg and acts of vlence — agast gay people still exists, but more people are beg more tolerant.

 MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

"We're fdg even grandparents are pretty acceptg when they fd that their grandson or granddghter is gay, " he said. — It was a big night for gay Bill 1523, the legislature's attempt to tablish a sort of Southern-ied sharia over the state's LGBT populatn, had been molished by a feral judge jt hours earlier.

GAYT PLAC IN MISSISSIPPI FOR 2020

Mike Pence (R), now Donald Tmp's nng mate, that let bs refe service to any group they nsired heretil to their the clock was tickg toward midnight si WonrLt, lolly signated as the hottt and most "Vegas" gay bar perhaps the most homophobic state the spac, purple-l club are maybe 30 patrons.

The celer irony for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people is that two of the cultural forts agast the age-old poverty and discrimatn have been the church and fay — both of which are often nied to 3, 484 same-sex upl here reprent jt 3. 14 of every 1, 000 hoeholds, a rat that ranks 49th the natn, acrdg to the Williams Instute, a thk tank at the UCLA School of Law that tracks gay life. No state Ameri has passed more rtrictive legislatn on gay life, more emphatilly supported anti-gay referendums, or featured such blisterg nmnatn om the pulp or the polil podium.

"It's disappotg that once aga the feral ernment has to stand up for jtice and equaly our state, " says Rob Hill, a former Methodist mister and now the state director of the Human Rights a rult, gay life here plays out maly as a don't-ask-don't-tell echo of days gone by. When I walk out that door I have three strik agast me — I’m black, gay and a woman.

 MISSISSIPPI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

”Fondren, the historic arts district that li about four north of the state pol buildg, is Jackson's "gayborhood, " home to WonrLt and a low-tensy mag for a good b of openly LGBT Eudora Welty hoe is nearby. It is set behd a saggg cha-lk is Jack's Constctn Se, which was, until closed two weeks ago, the bar and gatherg spot for Jackson's LGBT crowd for a wasn’t flashy, but if you are of a certa age was somethg like Mississippi’s Official Gay Bar.

There were a uple of pool tabl and some vtage Hollywood a recent morng here ss owner Jack Myers, 71, the patron sat of Mississippi’s gay scene. He has n one gay bar or another this town for 50 years, startg back when even terracial marriage was ’s explag that although J. The anctral tate is a mobile me out as gay his early 20s.

He worked as an X-ray technician durg the days and ran gay bars at night. “They have this ia of what gay people do. They thk gay people are all one way.

HOW TO MEET GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

They jt don’t realize gay people have all sorts of preferenc and jobs and thgs, jt like they do.