Omega DC Omega DC, the former Fraterny ("Frat") Hoe, is one of DC's olst survivg gay bars. Omega is suated the former Carriage Quarters (the terr brick facg is origal) of The...
Contents:
- THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.
- ESQUIRE NAM TRA ONE OF AMERI’S BT GAY BARS FOR SEND YEAR
THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.
Cozy apartments, private rooms and amazg hom: be weled by the gay muny over 200 untri.
Apartments, rooms, hom: be weled by the gay muny. Though not a lbian bar, 's one of several gay spac the District that have shuttered the last few years.
A slate of gay bars and spac, cludg the Hung Jury, Apex, Omega, and Remgton’s, have closed DC the last few years, but many of the cy’s lbian spac—Lost and Found, The Other Si, Pier 9—had closed years earlier. Earlier this week, we spoke wh historian Bonnie Morris about what the loss of gay and lbian spac means for DC’s LGBT muny, the “mastreamg” of gay culture, and why lbian bars have had a tougher time than bars terg to gay men.
ESQUIRE NAM TRA ONE OF AMERI’S BT GAY BARS FOR SEND YEAR
It’s very generatnal, specific to people who me out the seventi and eighti when, although DC was better than most stat, there weren’t very many protectns for gay and lbian people.