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- THE BT GAY BARS BOSTON
- MY APARTMENT BUILDG ONCE HOED ONE OF THE OLST GAY CLUBS IN THE STATE
- GAY BARS, GENR DISCRIMATN, AND BOYTTS—1980S STYLE
THE BT GAY BARS BOSTON
Posts about Boston gay history wrten by markthomaskrone * gay bars boston 1980s *
Mappg Boston's Former Gay Bars. has this list of former gay bars and hot spots, wrten by someone much younger than I:Do you remember....?
Not sure what the name was, but I was told there ed to be a bar or der where gay men equented back the 70s and 80s. Wh the 24-hour ders and Chatown nearby, one would have thought that gay nightlife would thrive...
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Another short-lived bar on Washgton Street Downtown Crossg that featured gay night (Wedndays). Saturday morngs had a mixed crowd, and Sunday morngs were all-gay. The Loft has been closed for almost ten years now, but now RISE has returned (after a fire that closed the club for over a year) as the after-hours hot spot for gay club-goers.
There won’t be any big sendoff for the last gay bar and nightclub the historic "gayborhood" and ’s jt one chapter a story about people on the outskirts of a changg cy. * gay bars boston 1980s *
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Lbians and gay men soon joed spected Communists as the hunted.
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