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

Contents:

• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• THE BEST WASHGTON DC GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON DC
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.
• WASHGTON DC GAY BARS
• WASHGTON DC GAY SNAS
• WASHGTON DC GAY WELLNS
• WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The natn's pal is home to a lively LGBTQ+ nightlife scene wh plenty of gay and lbian bars jt wag for you to jo on the fun. Larry’s Lounge is a gay neighborhood pub, wh always-affordable drks, solid happy hour specials, mouth-waterg pub fare (see: sweet potato tots) and one of the cy’s iendlit pats (you n brg your dog, too!). Number Ne to the btlg Logan Circle urty of -founr Ed Bailey, who helped DC’s gay nightlife scene to grow durg his days as a DJ.

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

Suated right the heart of Adams Man’s btlg 18th Street is Pchers, a gay sports bar, and A League of Her Own, the adjacent bar for lbian and queer women. 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. Capal Pri, one of the largt gay pri celebratns the US, is this weekend. The above map and s acpanyg history tell the story of the bars, bookstor, group hom, clics, and church that have played sential rol DC's gay muny for the past half century.

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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. The growth of gay spac slowed down the 1980s, she says, but at the same time the clud DC's first gural High Heel Drag Queen Race, which has now bee an stutn. The slowed growth ntued the 90s and 2000s, but 's very possible that's bee time has passed, there's been ls of a need for gay people to hi pla sight.

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“Wh greater acceptance has me blurrier l to what nstut gay bars and spac, ” wr Kate. “Nowadays bars like Nellie's, one of the few notable gay bars to open sce 2000, are attend by straight people, and many bars whout the tentn of beg a gay bar wele and celebrate their LGBT muny.

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The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

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(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

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He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. Onle EventWed, Aug 16 · 10:00 PM UTCLGBTQ Women, Femm, & Thems Virtual SocialGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYOnle EventFri, Aug 4 · 10:00 PM UTCFor Us By Us- A LGBT BIPOC Meet-UpGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYOnle EventWed, Aug 9 · 10:00 PM UTCLGBTQ Women, Femm, & Thems Virtual SocialGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYOnle EventTue, Aug 15 · 10:30 PM UTCYou've Got Gayme: In-Person Game NightGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYOnle EventFri, Aug 18 · 11:00 PM UTCFor Us By Us- A LGBT BIPOC Meet-UpGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI) • Long Island Cy, NYGroup name:Trans/Nonnformg/Nonbary Programs & Events (Queens &LI)Long Island Cy, NYThu, Aug 17 · 11:30 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Book ClubGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCFri, Aug 4 · 11:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Social @ The CommentaryGroup name:DC LGBTQ+ Profsnals • Washgton, DCGroup name:DC LGBTQ+ ProfsnalsWashgton, DCFri, Aug 4 · 11:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Social @ CommentaryGroup name:Out Profsnals - Washgton DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Out Profsnals - Washgton DCWashgton, DCSat, Aug 19 · 2:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Bnch @ Freddie'sGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSat, Aug 12 · 2:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Bnch @ Freddie'sGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSat, Aug 5 · 2:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Bnch @ Freddie'sGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSun, Aug 6 · 4:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Coffee & Conversatn @ as you name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSun, Aug 13 · 10:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Dner & Conversatn @ FeriGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSun, Aug 6 · 10:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Dner & Conversatn @ FeriGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCFri, Aug 11 · 11:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Social @ Hotel ZenaGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSat, Aug 12 · 11:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Gam @ The Board Room VAGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSat, Aug 26 · 2:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Bnch @ Freddie'sGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCFri, Aug 18 · 11:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Speed Friendg @ Puro GtoGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCFri, Aug 25 · 11:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Social @ DIK BarGroup name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DCSat, Aug 12 · 7:00 PM UTCLGBTQ+ Happy Hour @ Denizens Brewg Silver Sprg Group name:Go Gay DC • Washgton, DCGroup name:Go Gay DCWashgton, DC.

Owner Spencer Hurd moled Licht after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany. His dream: lnchg a cktail bar moled after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany. “The goal is to foc on the classic cktails, rather than jt vodka-sodas and rose Kennedys, as you may get at other gay bars, ” he says.

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Licht Café is a reference to the spiratn om his go-to gay spot Mannheim, but also reflects his ial zy space. “I love art and sign, ” Hurd says, “and I wanted to make the bar unapologetilly gay. “I want the to be a bid edgy—this is a part of gay culture.

The U Street NW strip’s gay bar scene is on the up as of late. Kiki owner Keaton Fedak, the former general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose, will expand Kiki to the next-door space that formerly hoed dive Dodge Cy. “We’re hopg to make a gayborhood Shaw, ” he told Eater last month.

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Meet Kiki, an Excg New Gay Bar Replacg a Pair of Shuttered Shaw Div. Val Dupont Gay Bar Cobalt Is Closg After Two Des. Tour historic LGBTQ+ s, grab a drk at the bt gay and lbian bars the cy, rock out at Capal Pri and so much more.

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A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light’s disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney.