Interactive Wtport Connecticut Gay Bars Lbian Clubs GayBarMaps CT

Contents:

•  CONNECTICUT LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• 06880: GAY BAR B THE DT
• ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S OLST GAY BARS CLOS DOORS AT 71
• OTHER GAY CONNECTICUT BARS AND CLUBS

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

June will be so gay Wtport. Around the world, Pri Month — memoratg one of the first uprisgs agast police raids on gay bars, at the Stonewall Inn June 1969 — is celebrated wh paras, ftivals, discsns and more.

In the works: a Book Club discsn wh the Wtport Library about the te crime story “Last Call, ” a killer who preyed upon gay men (July 22; click here); a panel wh the Wtport Wton Clergy Associatn; events for Comg Out Day October, and more. The Brook was one of the first gay bars the area — and, when closed 2011, the olst ntually operatg one the untry.

Stapl sponsored the first Gay Straight Alliance of any public school Connecticut.

06880: GAY BAR B THE DT

Fairfield County’s gural Gay Pri celebratn was held at the Unarian Church. Once upon a time, Wtport had both a gay bar and a strip club.

The gay bar was The Brook.

ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S OLST GAY BARS CLOS DOORS AT 71

The gay bar outlasted them all. It’s a ramshackle old buildg — sry, almost — and whatever is erected there will be much more profable than a gay bar.

At 71 years old, the Cedar Brook has been lled the olst ntually operatg gay bar the Uned Stat. For 7 s, every gay boy growg up Wtport has told the same story.

Knowg there was a gay bar right down the street created both tremendo excement (there are people like me! Wonrg who — and what — lurked behd those ramshackle walls nsumed gay teenagers. “This is a gay bar.

OTHER GAY CONNECTICUT BARS AND CLUBS

But was hard to sta a gay club suburban Fairfield County the 2000s. Soon will no longer have a gay bar, eher.

And some other place, somewhere, will say wh pri: “We’re the olst ntually operatg gay bar Ameri.