D.C.'s Bt Gay Bars and Hangouts - Eater DC

Contents:

• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• AT THE CLUB: LOTG EARLY BLACK GAY AIDS ACTIVISM WASHGTON, D.C.

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

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Today, more than 500, 000 members of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny of Ain scent and their alli e to Washgton DC on Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the bety of a shared muny and raise awarens and fundg for HIV/AIDS the name and spir of Black Pri. topletetopleteFiltersDateCategoryFormatPriceLanguageCurrencyMost popular matchSun, Aug 20 • 4:00 PM The Brooklyn BankBlack PriSun, Aug 20 • 4:00 PM The Brooklyn BankVanuver Black PriSat, Aug 5 • 5:00 PM 1100 Bute StVanuver Black PriSat, Aug 5 • 5:00 PM 1100 Bute StBlack Pri NYC RiSat, Aug 19 • 7:00 PM Circle Le Sightseeg CisBlack Pri NYC RiSat, Aug 19 • 7:00 PM Circle Le Sightseeg CisPromotedDC Jollof Ftival - 2023Sun, Aug 6 • 2:00 PM The Bullpen at Half Street FairgroundsPromotedDC Jollof Ftival - 2023Sun, Aug 6 • 2:00 PM The Bullpen at Half Street FairgroundsPromotedDC LIVE‼️ The 3rd Annual Libra Season All-Black Semi-Formal Benef GalaSat, Oct 7 • 7:00 PM Renaissance Washgton, DC Downtown HotelPromotedDC LIVE‼️ The 3rd Annual Libra Season All-Black Semi-Formal Benef GalaSat, Oct 7 • 7:00 PM Renaissance Washgton, DC Downtown HotelGAY Love JonFri, Aug 25 • 7:00 PM + 1 moreThearc TheaterGAY Love JonFri, Aug 25 • 7:00 PM + 1 moreThearc TheaterBlack & Suicidal: The Rise of Suici the Black CommunyTomorrow • 2:00 PMYoShow PlaceBlack & Suicidal: The Rise of Suici the Black CommunyTomorrow • 2:00 PMYoShow Place8TH ANNUAL CBC BLACK AND WHITE GALASat, Sep 23 • 8:00 PM Renaissance Hotel8TH ANNUAL CBC BLACK AND WHITE GALASat, Sep 23 • 8:00 PM Renaissance HotelAnnual Inpennt Black Author XpoSat, Aug 12 • 12:00 PM 8201 Corporate DrAnnual Inpennt Black Author XpoSat, Aug 12 • 12:00 PM 8201 Corporate DrBlack Wall Street Renaissance Pop-Up ShopsSat, Aug 5 • 11:00 AM + 29 moreEverlastg Life Rtrant and LoungeBlack Wall Street Renaissance Pop-Up ShopsSat, Aug 5 • 11:00 AM + 29 moreEverlastg Life Rtrant and LoungeALL BLACK POPUP SHOP AND EXPOSun, Aug 20 • 1:00 PM + 2 moreShutter Up warehoeALL BLACK POPUP SHOP AND EXPOSun, Aug 20 • 1:00 PM + 2 moreShutter Up warehoeYOUNG BLACK BOY/ YOUNG BLACK GIRL | A Bboys and Poets Books PrentatnWednday • 6:00 PMBboys and Poets AnastiaYOUNG BLACK BOY/ YOUNG BLACK GIRL | A Bboys and Poets Books PrentatnWednday • 6:00 PMBboys and Poets AnastiaEbony Men Black Male Revue Strip Clubs & Black Male Strippers Washgton DcFriday • 8:00 PM + 43 moreEbony Men Black Male Strippers Washgton DCEbony Men Black Male Revue Strip Clubs & Black Male Strippers Washgton DcFriday • 8:00 PM + 43 moreEbony Men Black Male Strippers Washgton DCThe Black Art SocialSat, Aug 19 • 7:00 PM The Village CafeThe Black Art SocialSat, Aug 19 • 7:00 PM The Village CafeSUPER RICH WEDNESDAYS at BLACK DIAMONDWednday • 8:00 PM + 35 moreBlack Diamond Rtrant and LoungeSUPER RICH WEDNESDAYS at BLACK DIAMONDWednday • 8:00 PM + 35 moreBlack Diamond Rtrant and LoungeHONEY CHILE FtSat, Aug 19 • 1:00 PM Enoch Pratt Free LibraryHONEY CHILE FtSat, Aug 19 • 1:00 PM Enoch Pratt Free LibraryThe 6th Annual Black Blockcha SummThu, Sep 21 • 8:00 AM Howard UniversyThe 6th Annual Black Blockcha SummThu, Sep 21 • 8:00 AM Howard Universy8/1: Obsidian // Sry Black // Cemetery Sex // DJ VladTuday • 8:30 PMThe Runaway8/1: Obsidian // Sry Black // Cemetery Sex // DJ VladTuday • 8:30 PMThe RunawayCBC - 8TH ANNUAL CBC RECEPTIONThu, Sep 21 • 5:00 PM The Park at 14thCBC - 8TH ANNUAL CBC RECEPTIONThu, Sep 21 • 5:00 PM The Park at 14thBlack Diamond Fridays!

When the DC Coaln of Black Gays anized an AIDS Fom for Black and Third World Gays njunctn wh Whman Walker Clic September 1983, the ClubHoe hosted the fom—the first signifint outreach om the public health muny to the Black LGBTQ muny.

MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV

Even though the broar ClubHoe muny rallied to support their club, and Black gay social clubs, Bt of Washgton and the Associat among others, raised money to help keep the doors open, the club’s managers realized s n as a premier nightspot was g to an end.

Durg the 60s and 70s, as LGBT activism moved more to the public foreont, the number of gay bars grew throughout the District; also emergg this time were Guild Prs, which published gay travel guis, fictn, and a newspaper lled Gay Fom, as well as the Washgton Free Clic, which provid STD unselg to gay men. Communy-based narrativ about the vis’s transmissn through terracial sex, upled wh public-health officials’ neglect of black gay neighborhoods AIDS outreach, stctured the black gay muny’s belief that the vis was a whe gay disease that would not affect them as long as they mataed separate social and sexual works anized around shared geographic lotns.

The ClubHoe—DC’s most famo black gay and lbian nightclub—beme a key se of AIDS activism bee of s prr visibily as the center of Ain Amerin lbian and gay nightlife and as a lol venue for black lbian and gay activist efforts.

LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

DC’s leadg LGBT-themed newspaper, the Washgton Bla, reported the mayor’s reactn upon learng about the black gay muny’s experienc of racial discrimatn whe gay-owned tablishments: “Barry, who had not prevly met wh Black Gay lears, seemed surprised to hear about discrimatn by Whe Gay tablishments. ”[4] In an edorial the DC-based, black, LGBT-themed magaze Blacklight, Sidney Brkley, the magaze’s publisher and founr of the first LGBT anizatn at Howard Universy, noted how equently this had been happeng whe gay bars particular, “As Black Gay people, we know all too well about discrimatn ‘whe’ Gay bars.

In the feature story of the December 1980 issue of Blacklight, tled “Cliqu, ” the thor, who chose to rema anonymo, explaed how black gay muny formatn Washgton, DC, shifted om private social clubs the mid- to late ’60s to more public venu the mid-’70s and early ’80s, g “cliqu” to emerge based on shared social spac like church, bars, neighborhoods, and apartment plex. [6] While the persistence of facto forms of segregatn DC’s gay scene and the cultural stigma attached to homosexualy wh black muni did shape the formatn of discrete social and sexual works among black gay men DC, many of the men preferred to socialize based upon shared geographic spac and mon racial and class inti. ”[7] The bar’s uptown lotn the middle-e, black rintial area of Columbia Heights distguished om more workg-class black gay tablishments, like the Brass Rail, which was loted downtown the “htler sectn near 13th Street and New York Ave.

In 1987 the Washgton Post reported that AIDS s Washgton, DC, were distct om those plac like New York Cy that the majory were black homosexual and bisexual men: “In the district, half of the 693 reported s are black, while only 3 percent are Hispanic. But unlike New York Cy, where the vast majory of black and Hispanic victims are traveno dg ers or their sexual partners, 70 percent of black AIDS patients the District are homosexual or bisexual men, acrdg to statistics piled by cy health officials. The story, tled “The File on AIDS, ” gave an overview of the disease and s impact, terviewed a Howard Universy physician about the racial polics of AIDS, and clud three op-ed piec by black gay activists the muny on their var rpons to the vis.

AT THE CLUB: LOTG EARLY BLACK GAY AIDS ACTIVISM WASHGTON, D.C.

”[13] In his oral-history narrative for the Rabow History Project, Courtney Williams, the former chair of the DC Coaln of Black Gays also mentned the popular belief that black men were dyg of AIDS bee they were “alg wh wh. Ined, several lol black gay activists relled their oral-history narrativ to the Rabow History Project how many black gay men totally dismissed the possibily that the disease might impact their muny, bee they unrstood as a “whe disease. [16] That DC’s black gay muni formed along socenomic l and acrdg to shared lotn suggts that they, too, believed that managg the threat of AIDS the early years of the epimic was a matter of matag the racial, class, and spatial boundari that were already stcturg Washgton’s gay scene.

Jam “Juicy” Coleman, founr of one of the olst social clubs for black gay men, at Howard Universy 1968, discsed his oral-history narrative for the Rabow History Project how hard was for black men who had venereal disease to fd racially and sexually sensive doctors and how Howard Universy Hospal discrimated agast black AIDS patients.

Coleman, who later voted his life to AIDS tn and preventn, also discsed how the Whman-Walker Clic was labeled “Whe Man Walker” by the lol black gay muny bee of s lack of culturally appropriate programmg and bee s outreach occurred primarily whe gay neighborhoods.