Shuttered by the ronavis, many gay bars – already stgglg – are now on life support

Contents:

• WELE TO THE BT GAY CLUB PRAGUE
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• HOW TO BEE POPULAR AT A GAY BAR
• THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.
• ‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN

WELE TO THE BT GAY CLUB PRAGUE

For more than 35 years, Wt Hollywood has been a Mec for queer-owned bs, hog dozens of gay bars and clubs along Santa Moni Boulevard. Four popular gay bars have permanently closed Wt Hollywood sce March: Flamg Saddl, Gold Coast, Rage and Gym Bar. And after a half- of employg gay men om Wt Hollywood, she is worried about what next.

“They uld rent to anybody, don’t have to be a gay bar — uld be whatever they want, which would change the fabric of the muny, ” she says.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

As he’s watched some of his neighborg bs go unr, Cooley not, “Gay bars and rtrants are not jt plac to eat or have a cktail. We are lookg forward to welg you every day om 2pm our day bar UP (mixed) and every day om 9pm you n move downstairs to our gay club DOWN. Don’t matter if you are watchg a sport event on our big screen mixed bar UP or dancg to the rhythm of mic and enjoyg our performance (lightman show, gay show, travti show, etc) gay club DOWN Prague.

In our gay club, that is open every day om 9pm you n expect the followg:. The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world.

HOW TO BEE POPULAR AT A GAY BAR

Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St. The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic.

The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur.

—Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli. —Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars.

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

When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce.

—Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic? It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria.

‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN

It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood. It brought the gay and straight muni together the ‘90s wh clever baret programmg.

But perhaps most signifintly, gave the gay muny of Boston somethg sperately need: visibily. While other gay bars of the time were basements or board up, Club Cafe faced by Columb Avenue wh floor to ceilg wdows. Big Chicks serv a diverse crowd— ’s young, ’s old, ’s one of the only plac you’ll see gay men and lbians together!

—Dave HolmCourtyChigo: Carol’s Pub Not every gay bar is explicly a gay bar. The legendary hoeband, Diamondback, has a 25, 000-song repertoire and a boot llectn that uld make a gay wboy cry. While you won’t fd any Pri flags at Farraguts, you will undoubtedly hear Cele Dn and Melissa Etheri blarg om the bar’s dty, old jebox and, hontly, isn’t that jt as gay?

CourtyDallas: Round-Up SaloonEqual parts wboy boots and dis ball, Round Up Saloon opened 42 years ago Dallas as a gay untry wtern dance hall. Thanks to Perez-Gallardo and their team, gay people who love the outdoors (most lbians) now have a iendly place to unwd after a hike. Billed as Wt Virgia's olst gay bar, the venue regularly brgs some of the biggt queer performg artists the game right now.