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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.
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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.
" 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.
Now that gay marriage is the law of the land natnwi, 's time for a look back at how life has changed for LGBT Denver over the s. * old denver gay bars *
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.
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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.
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 *
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. 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.