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INDIANAPOLIS GAY BARS: 7 SPAC MA FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY
Durg the early 1990s, amid a growg wave of anti-LGBTQ vlence and the ongog AIDS crisis, there was also a person known as the Last Call Killer stalkg and terrorizg New York Cy's queer muny, particularly gay men who equented piano bars, like Townhoe and Five Oaks. Gay bars offer LGBTQ+ muny members a place to go which they n be fortable and treated as humans, they ’s important that the spac rema open, as a bs and to the public, so people and outsi of the LGBTQ+ muny n enjoy the bars and experience queer culture, said Alexanr, stage name Duchs Morngstar. This gay bar has been bs sce 1980.
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The bs has sce remaed a part of the gay bar Our Place routely hosts drag performance nights, featurg artists such as Sage Summers, Heather Bea and Brooklyn Burroughs, and drag pageants. English Ivy's -owner Sam Stt said about 80% of the bar's clientele are regulars, llg the bar a "gay Cheers, " referencg the bar the 90s s "where everybody knows your name. The eatery loted the Sat Joseph neighborhood is not a dance club, but rather a “gay-therg” place for members of the LGBTQ+ muny and alli, acrdg to s webse.
By night is Almost Famo, an “everyone bar, ” which do not market self as a gay bar but ters to queer people, said assistant general manager Jam Alexanr, stage name Duchs Morngstar.
“You n e to this environment and be queer and feel like you’re safe but ’s not your typil what you would thk gay bar feel, ” said show director Myke Dobbs, whose stage name is Lady Dumpster.