06880: Gay Bar B the Dt | Wtport, CT Patch

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. 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.

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

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.

OTHER GAY CONNECTICUT BARS AND CLUBS

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.

But was hard to sta a gay club suburban Fairfield County the 2000s.