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The R & R Lounge is one of Denver's olst gay bars, datg back to a time when they had to keep a secret. * old denver gay bars *
The R & R Lounge is one of Denver's olst gay bars, datg back to a time when they had to keep a secret. The R & R Lounge has been welg one and all as an East Colfax neighborhood gay bar sce before most Denver knew that there were gay bars their midst.
Then we snagged some cktails and Esteban showed the many aclas that the R & R has earned over the years, cludg the pag Denver's Bt Dive Bars: Drkg and Divg the Mile-High Cy (penned by former Wtword bar wrer Drew Bixby), a Wtword award for Bt Gay Bar 2016, and an OutFront award for "Bt Place to S Part of Denver's Queer History" 2017.
But there's much more history to the bar that rightfully claims to be "Denver's olst gay bar.
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" The lotn has been a bar sce the 1950s, when was known as the Coral Lounge and was nsired a "mixed" bar, which is basilly what people lled an gno gay bar back then.
Also the ’70s, the bar beme an "out and proud, rabow-on-the-door gay bar, " acrdg to owner Rich Illgen.
Illgen was also an owner at another historic gay bar Denver, the origal Triangle Bar, a legendary leather bar that shook up the scene om the ’70s until closg the early 2000s. Sarah McGill Acrdg to Illgen and his team, their clientele is eclectic and the bar don't have a reputatn for terg to any particular subset of the gay muny; olr and younger men and women, drag queens, members of the trans muny, bears and cisgenr folks are wele and make themselv at home — as long as "your money is green and you n get along wh everyone, " Illgen adds. It's not a gay neighborhood or strip of gay hot spots, which is part of the appeal of the R & R.
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It's jt a chill neighborhood bar that's also a gay bar. Recently, the R & R Lounge was chosen as the settg for an pennt film lled Gay Bashed om director Jc Stt Gray; was filmed last November, wh some of the staff and ctomers st as extras, and is schled to e out this month.
Wh s mythil two-step lsons early the eveng, go-go boys, cheap sloshy beer, and an entire room for s equent drag shows, this staple of the Denver gay scene has somethg for everyone. Frequent Charlie’s-goer Sean Doyle ced the “be-yourself vibe” as one of the thgs that keeps him g back and ghed that, as Denver don’t have a ncentrated gayborhood the way, say, Chigo or San Fran do, Charlie’s is one of the “few plac that the gay muny n own as one of theirs.
Denver’s olst gay bar, R&R Bar is a Denver staple. If you’re lookg to see some queer entertament outsi of the regular gay bar circu, you n ually fd somethg out-of-the-ordary gog on at the Clocktower Cabaret.
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It don’t intify self as an explicly gay bar, but ’s a popular hangout for olr gay men occupyg the former Barker Lounge space.
Sce the '70s, R&R Lounge has been an openly proud gay bar, servg as a trailblazer for creatg a safe space the Mile High Cy's gay muny. * old denver gay bars *
Its owners have claimed ’s the cy’s olst gay bar, havg opened the 1950s and gone openly gay the 1970s, acrdg to Wtword, wh s stantly regnizable, rabow-pated door.