Bear Brew Is Beijg's Gay-Friendly Specialty Coffee Bar

Contents:

• "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
• 6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER
• BEAR BREW IS BEIJG’S GAY-FRIENDLY SPECIALTY COFFEE BAR
• WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA
• GAY SAN ANTON
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

We're jt for the morng gays. "When people thk of gay spac or queer spac, they immediately thk of a nightclub or bar — maybe a ltle hole the wall, " he said. Gay bars hold a eply important place the history of LGBTQ rights and visibily the Uned Stat.

6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER

For s and s, jt visg a gay bar was a high-risk activy.

For young members of the LGBTQ muny, gog out to a gay or lbian bar was almost like a re of passage. Growg up as a queer, Black women Louisville, Kentucky, Arielle Clark said that she felt like there were certa "ton" she wanted to meet to feel at home the muny: She wanted to attend Kentucky Pri and meet other LGBTQ people, and then she wanted to get to some kd of gay bar or nightclub bee that's where everyone spent time on the weekends. Beg gay is often a soberg experience, but are gay people really that sober?

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BEAR BREW IS BEIJG’S GAY-FRIENDLY SPECIALTY COFFEE BAR

Q Center, 4115 N Mississippi Ave., 503-234-7837, Mnelli was good to the gays, and now 's time for you to return the favor by bleedg your bt performance at the Q Center's Cabaret wh a Q. Stag PDX, one of Portland's two gay strip clubs, offers s weekly TESTIFY drag bnch that tends to reel yuppie gays om Northwt. Hawks and Steam are Portland's last two gay bathho, and Sunday nights are bisexual nights.

Related: I Spent a Night One of Portland's Last Gay BathhoComg Out. Everyone knows that change n be cremental, but the phrase “gay bar” sounds cliché anymore.

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WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA

1119 Loct Street, Gayborhood. Owned by JonCarl Lachman, the chef behd the East Passyunk favore (and sadly soon-to-be-closed) Noord, Wkel is a statn bnch spot the Gayborhood.

GAY SAN ANTON

Philly’s olst gay bar has been an in for the leather muny sce 1982 and is home to the Mx. If you’re the Denver area, you’re luck bee there are que a few gay-iendly ffee shops where you n easily go and set up shop for the day to get through your to-do list. Whether you’re lookg for a quick boost or a place to hunker down wh your laptop, we’ve round up seven of our fave gay-iendly ffee shops Denver.

It’s a gay bar that offers Sunday bnch, and at bnch, you n get everythg om sweet creme blee ench toast to classic eggs benedict and even breakfast burgers! DAZBOG COFFEEBelieve or not, Dazbog Coffee, which has many different lotns throughout the cy, is also gay-iendly. The one on E 9th Avenue is specifilly known to be credibly gay-iendly, so try to go to that one if you has some of the bt ffee Denver.

This cuty art and gift shop has everythg om Beyoncé-themed ems for your sk to lendars that remd you to be you no matter what "gay" of the week is. Loted the heart of the Castro, San Francis's most famo "gayborhood, " this mm foc on queer history and is the first stand-alone mm of s kd the US.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

In the LGBT muny, a “bear” typilly refers to a gay male who may be larger stature and sports a more gged, fuzzy look.