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.
Contents:
- A MAN ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED A GAY COUPLE WHO ASKED HIM TO LEAVE THEIR BAR BEE HE WAS HARASSG WOMEN
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.
- KACEY MGRAV GIV SURPRISE PERFORMANCE AT PHILLY GAY BAR, VERS FLEETWOOD MAC
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
- THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
A MAN ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED A GAY COUPLE WHO ASKED HIM TO LEAVE THEIR BAR BEE HE WAS HARASSG WOMEN
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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.
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.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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. 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.
THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.
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.
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. 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.
KACEY MGRAV GIV SURPRISE PERFORMANCE AT PHILLY GAY BAR, VERS FLEETWOOD MAC
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.
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.
THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
“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. ”Mattson has terviewed 120 bar owners 35 stat for a forthg book lled “Who Needs Gay Bars?
For some bar owners, Mattson found, that’s jt enomics, but for a new generatn, “lbian” and “gay” don’t pture their full and fluid inti. ”A fay-oriented spacePike and McDaniel have spent the past 20 years workg gay and lbian spac. Pike did secury for Nellie’s Sports Bar, and McDaniel bartend at APEX, Cobalt and other gay bars before workg alongsi Pike at A League of Her Own (ALOHO) Adams was one of jt 21 lbian bars left the untry when Pike and McDaniel worked there, but durg the early days of the ronavis panmic, the uple cid they wanted to create a new spot, one they owned.
As You Are won’t have secury guards; stead, Pike is trag a fleet of “safety managers” — a change Pike hop will attract applints who are ls ncerned wh actg tough and more terted creatg a safe atmosphere for and McDaniel know that some people thk the gay bar era is over, that spac like theirs are no longer need, but people who say that tend to have more privilege, McDaniel said. “He was clearly homophobic, ” Pike said. “My experience of tryg to fd safe space here the Stat, and parg wh trips back to vis fay Mexi, has probably rmed my fervor for creatg a space where you are able to jt exist regardls of how or where you were born, who you want to love and how you intify, ” Castellanos, the owner of Hershee Bar Norfolk, nsirs herself an “old-school gay girl, ” but she’s rootg for the next generatn of queer bar owners.
THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
Mgrav took a break om her “star-crossed: unveiled” headlg tour, which kicked off earlier this month, and popped to Tavern on Camac, a gay bar the Philly area, acrdg to a vio posted by Instagram er @gayborhoodfamo. “kacey mgrav playg at a small gay bar philly jt prov she knows her fan base, ” @skurtas wrote. Mgrav’ appearance at a gay bar shouldn’t e as a surprise given the untry-pop sger’s LGBTQ advocy.
“I ma tons of gay iends and started gog to the few gay clubs we have town, ” Mgrav said at the time. The Other Place club on Stanley Street (1979) which is now the Navy Bar loted the gay quarter of the cy. Liverpool’s gay scene origally centred on Queens Square.