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A MAN ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED A GAY COUPLE WHO ASKED HIM TO LEAVE THEIR BAR BEE HE WAS HARASSG WOMEN

Casey Fzpatrick and his hband, Nicholas Ruiz, who own a popular gay bar Connecticut, said the man ed "rogatory and anti-LGBTQ words" to disparage the venue and s ctomers. * casey's gay bar *

A gay uple was attacked while rtg a patron out of the bar they own Connecticut, rultg ser juri, over what they said was an anti-gay Fzpatrick and his hband, Nicholas Ruiz, who own Troupe429, a popular gay bar Norwalk, said a statement Tuday that they were attacked on Sept. "There were no wrten statements om the victims prr to the [arrt] warrant but we went forward wh the other rmatn cludg reviewg the secury footage om the ont of the bar to obta the warrant, " Kulhawik also said they have no evince so far that the attack was motivated by anti-gay sentiment, spe the uple's statement.

And whether she’s tellg jok about the gay agenda or sharg thoughts on the “bury your gays” trope, her life as a queer woman LA tak center stage.

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The diversy problem gay LA today. Dozens of gay bars — om Santa Moni to the Valley to downtown LA — fill the landspe that is gay LA.

“It is disappotg sometim when you're gog out to the gay bars, to Wt Hollywood, and most of is tailored toward whe cis gay men. Sce the closure of LA’s last remag gay bars, the send-largt cy the U. In recent years, pop-ups like Queer Field Day have beocme monplace, providg LA’s lbians and anyone who isn’t a whe cisgenred gay man a space that’s uniquely theirs — like the cktail popup The Fgerjot, and queer dance parti like Paradiso Dive, LezCroix, and Mommy Issu.

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. (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.

THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.

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.

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.

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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. Bounce closed 2017, and hundreds of other gay bars have shut down, too. A group is planng a lbian and queer “clubhoe” Los Angel, and an “old-school gay girl” Norfolk plans to reopen the lbian bar she found four s ago.

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Pike and McDaniel know openg a bar durg a panmic may be risky, but they say they’ve learned one thg om years of visg and workg other queer tablishments: If they want to survive, they first have to build a better and more clive than a barThe gay bar was long the ma, and sometim only, space where queer people uld gather. A few opened quietly the early 1930s, then after World War II, hundreds more began servg gay men and women.

About 200 of those tered to, like Hershee Bar Norfolk, opened when their stat had laws that prohibed bar owners om employg gay people or creatg gatherg spots for them. She mentored foster children whose parents had kicked them out, and every Thanksgivg, she threw a dner for people whose fai didn’t accept 1987, Norfolk had four or five gay bars, and the number natnwi peaked at more than 1, 700.

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Many stayed open through the 1990s, but the early 2000s, hundreds of gay bars started to close.

Those servg lbians and people of lor were h all gay bar listgs cled by 37 percent between 2007 and 2019, the number of queer bars servg people of lor cled by 59 percent, and bars for lbians cled by 52 percent, Mattson Francis lost the Lexgton Club, and Rubyu Jungle shut s doors New Orleans. Still, Mattson has found two prevailg factors — the rise of datg apps and a growg acceptance of gay people.

“Gay bars were never jt hookup plac, but they were plac to meet other LGBTQ+ people, and now that you n meet them om your bedroom or while you’re wag for the b, that has taken away some of gay bars’ monopoly on beg the place where you fd other LGBTQ+ folks, ” he bars are also no longer the only place some queer people, pecially Whe and cisgenr men, feel safe. “I thk this is highly uneven, ” Mattson said, “but for gay, Whe, middle-class people like myself, any bar feels like a gay bar if you show up wh six iends.

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