The U Street Corridor Fally Has a Gay Club Aga - Eater DC

Contents:

• THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA
• BUNKER “PROUD TO BE DC’S NEWT GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB!”
• BUNKER “PROUD TO BE DC’S NEWT GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB!”
• THE FIRE PARTMENT CLOSET: BEG GAY BUNKER GEAR

THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

BUNKER is DC's unrground gay bar and club wh nightly entertament, live DJs, and transportive r. Bunker, a subterranean gay club, opened s massive doors to live DJ sets on Thursday, Febary 23.

BUNKER “PROUD TO BE DC’S NEWT GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB!”

In the past three years, all of the cy’s siar clubs have closed, cludg Cobalt, Secrets, DC Eagle, and the largt gay dance club D.

BUNKER “PROUD TO BE DC’S NEWT GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB!”

While Bunker is the first bona fi gay club D. “We’ve been throwg events now for que a few years, and the District, after the closure of really every gay nightclub — both before COVID and then durg COVID — has really been lackg a te dance floor, ” says Zach Renovát, one of the Bunker -owners. The Ltle Gay Pub – Photo: Do Sevilla.

The other new addn, The Ltle Gay Pub, is the brachild of three longtime rtrant and bar dtry fixtur — Do Sevilla, Dty Martez, and Ben Ganr. The -owners, who have a bed experience of 37 years the bar and rtrant dtry, have a shared visn of The Ltle Gay Pub as a “gift” to the muny, providg an LGBTQ space for people the Logan Circle/Shaw neighborhood where one currently do not exist, and where there’s a arth of drkg or eatg tablishments that n rival those near the Walter E.

“It looks like an old hotel vibe, a very W Anrson-y take on quirk, where pomp and circumstance have been shelved and taken over by three quirky gays who cid to overrate to s next eratn. The Ltle Gay Pub has a kchen that the owners plan to utilize, begng wh about a dozen food ems that one uld classify as “elevated pub food, ” meang more than your typil ied pub fare.

THE FIRE PARTMENT CLOSET: BEG GAY BUNKER GEAR

While the liquor license and fal settlement agreements are still beg procsed, the tr behd The Ltle Gay Pub note that their spotls rerds, as far as ABRA vlatns, and their longstandg reputatns appear to have aid them openg whout much phback om the cy, scribg the procs of applyg for var licens and perms as “drama-ee. The Ltle Gay Pub is aimg for a soft openg around March 1, pendg on how quickly a liquor license n be obtaed.

BUNKER, wh s 3 different floors, is the #1 place for gay blok om Drn and the cy’s guts at every weekend and before public holidays. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.

Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.