New 'gay water' looks to avoid Bud Light disaster - Washgton Tim

Contents:

• SEATTLE GAY DISTRICT: CAPOL HILL
• GAY DISTRICT
• THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS WASHGTON
• GAY SPOKANE TRAVEL GUI
• WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE
• MID-RANGE GAY WASHGTON DC · HOTELS
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• THE BEST WASHGTON DC GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON DC
• TWO D.C. GAY BAR CTOMERS STABBED ON SIWALK NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

SEATTLE GAY DISTRICT: CAPOL HILL

Tour historic LGBTQ+ s, grab a drk at the bt gay and lbian bars the cy, rock out at Capal Pri and so much more. Boastg the send largt LGBTQ populatn the Uned Stat after San Francis, as no surprise that there is a very dynamic and lively gay area Seattle.

GAY DISTRICT

Most of the Seattle gay scene n be found around Capol Hill, which is a quat, hilltop neighborhood that overlooks the cy’s downtown.

While the area is nsirably large, you n fd the majory of gay life on Pe and Pike Streets, which are spillg wh plenty of gay bars, rtrants, and clubs. In terms of some of the bt gay bars Seattle, Pony is an all-round wner.

Alternatively, if you are lookg for the die gay scene Seattle, we suggt stoppg by Re-Bar. If you are ready to get your dancg sho on and h one of the bt gay clubs Seattle, a vis to Neighbors is a mt.

THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?

This is one of the cy’s olst gay venu and has been operatn for more than 30 years. As one of the livelit gay ci the Uned Stat, is a given that Gay Pri Seattle is both big and fabulo. Gay District is a muny-based anizatn foced on buildg unrstandg of gay culture and personal inty, awarens of muny events and civil rights for gay, bi, trans, queer and qutng (GBTQQ) men between the ag of 18 to 35 the Washgton DC metropolan area.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS WASHGTON

The missn of the award-wng Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton, DC is to enterta through...

Prime Timers of Washgton, DC is a social anizatn for olr gay and bisexual men and their... DCMovieBears is a social activy group for gay and bisexual men and their iends the DC Metr...

GAY SPOKANE TRAVEL GUI

Programs and servic for gay, bi, and trans men at the DC Center.

Book Men DC is an rmal group of men who are terted gay lerature (both fictn and no...

WASHGTON DC GAY DISTRICT: DUPONT CIRCLE

Capal Pri was origally lled Gay Pri Day. It changed s name to Gay and Lbian Pri Day 1981, and to Capal Pri 2000.

MID-RANGE GAY WASHGTON DC · HOTELS

Black Pri is the first official black gay pri event the Uned Stat and one of two officially regnized ftivals for the Ain Amerin LGBT muny. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTVioTen percent of adults the District of Columbia intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, nearly three tim the natnal average. What mak the cy such a gay-iendly place?

15, 2013WASHINGTON — My earlit sense of what meant to be gay the natn’s pal me more than a ago when I was a summer tern. But the msage was as clear as was unsettlg for a 20-year-old stgglg wh his own sexual inty: There were plenty of gay people Washgton, even at the hight levels of ernment. I now live the gayt place don’t take my word for .

Consir what surveys by Gallup and the Cens Bure have found about the gay populatn here. When the District of Columbia is pared wh the 50 stat, has the hight percentage of adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to Gallup. The natnal average is jt unr 1 of my first observatns about my new cy was the throngs of gay men I would see over the urse of a typil day all over town — walkg their dogs my neighborhood before work, ridg the Metro, workg the halls of Congrs.

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

“There’s an openly gay prence that mak you thk you’re the Castro or Wt Hollywood, and wasn’t always the se, ” Robert Raben, an assistant attorney general durg the Clton admistratn who was one of several openly gay people appoted by Print Clton, told me.

THE BEST WASHGTON DC GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON DC

“The feral ernment was a nightmare for homosexuals for s, and then wasn’t. Vansa Vick for The New York TimSuch ubiquy isn’t jt an abundance of gay bars, though there are at least six wh walkg distance of my hoe the Logan Circle neighborhood of Northwt Washgton. On the days I make the 20-mute walk om home to my office near the Whe Hoe, I will pass one example after another of this cy’s thrivg gay enomy: a Mchell Gold & Bob Williams furnure store; a clothg retailer whose wdow displays regularly feature bare-torso, well-endowed mannequs nothg but ty briefs; three CrossF gyms; the offic of two gay newspapers, The Washgton Bla and Metro Weekly (most ci nnot even sta one); a bathhoe; and the natnal headquarters for the Human Rights walkg through the Dupont Circle neighborhood the other night would have found themselv fightg for siwalk space wh the hundreds of spectators — many of them straight — who had gathered to watch the 17th Street High Heel Race, an annual sprt for drag queens who tear down the block heels.

And when I tried to make plans a few weekends ago, I found most of my iends were booked solid bee they were attendg one of two huge gay-themed events: the Human Rights Campaign annual black-tie dner, featurg Jennifer Lopez as the ma event; or the Miss Adams Man drag pageant, which is such a large productn tak over the Washgton our feral district is measured agast other ci wh large gay populatns, a parison that experts say is better than parg to stat, still ranks at the top of the list. The numbers pture only those who acknowledge beg a same-sex gay man or lbian I spoke to for this article had a horror story about what was like workg the closet, fearg they would be found out.

TWO D.C. GAY BAR CTOMERS STABBED ON SIWALK NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE

It was only durg the Clton years that the Whe Hoe fally end the s-long practice of nyg secury clearance to people known to be gay or lbian.

That meant orr to be nsired for many high-level jobs volvg accs to classified rmatn, gays and lbians had to nct a web of li about their personal Elmendorf, a Democratic lobbyist who worked on Capol Hill for years, scribed how he and his gay iends had to make sure they all gave the same referenc to ernment agents vtigatg their backgrounds, an surance policy so that if the qutn of their sexual orientatn me up, they uld be certa no one unpredictable would spill the Rosen, a longtime Democratic lobbyist, told me that the 1980s she once unsuccsfully tried to persua Senator Orr G. Hatch recently voted for legislatn to clu gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people feral nondiscrimatn law. He was closeted at the time but knew that at least two of the general unsels he worked for and one senr admistrator were secretly gay.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

“It was poisono to be gay, ” he told me, “even when applyg for a ernment job. Richard Soris, a lawyer who was one of Print Clton’s openly gay appote, said that the early 1990s when he was applyg for a job on Capol Hill the office of Senator Tom Hark, Democrat of Iowa, one of the senator’s associat said that Mr. Sean Bugg, executive director of the Next Generatn Learship Foundatn and edor emer of Metro Weekly, relled beg a reporter verg tax issu on Capol Hill 1990 when he bumped to another reporter he regnized at the Dakota Cowgirl, a popular gay bar at the time.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Bugg said, addg that there was still a sense you were never tly safe beg even half-open about beg gay back then. “This was the time when the ary was still dog surveillance gay bars.

Bar scene today, wh old stalwarts like JR’s, wh s one-for-every-taste clientele, and newer addns like Number 9, which n feel like perpetual happy hour for the cy’s gay polil-media plex. Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commtee, told me an pecially amb young man once hunted him down on the dance floor of a lol gay bar and hand him his résumé. Cecil said he did not give him the urse, ’s not all utopian for the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny here.

Gays are also no longer ghettoized one area of Washgton. Gradually, they have fanned out om Dupont Circle, which is now full of heterosexual fai, all across the of the anecdot and statistics raise a puzzlg qutn about the District’s gay and lbian populatn: Why are they all here? Gays and lbians do seem to be drawn to polics disproportnately high numbers.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

Elmendorf told me he thks that gay people, bee they were mostly whout children, were able to rist the draw of higher pay the private sector. “All the straight people would leave, worryg about how they were gog to send their kids to Sidwell Friends, ” he said, referrg to the ele private school that graduated Chelsea Clton and currently t the Obama repeal of the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy 2010 also helped draw more gay people out of the closet. Washgton has always had a large ary populatn, many of whom were sred of beg too open about who they were until the law gays and lbians moved om the recs of society to the mastream, few major ci have seen such an obv impact as Washgton.

Kameny, a pneerg gay rights activist whose personal history is emblematic of how Washgton’s acceptance of gays has evolved. His msage then, havg jt received an official apology for beg fired s earlier, was that gay rights activists had to remember to be patient.