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• ONE OF THE OLST GAY BARS LAS VEGAS CLOS
• FAMED GAY NIGHTCLUB GIPSY TO MAKE DRAMATIC 2022 RETURN TO THE EASTSI
• GAY BARS LAS VEGAS 
• FIRST GAY BAR THE LAS VEGAS ARTS DISTRICT OPENS DURG PANMIC
• GAY LAS VEGAS

ONE OF THE OLST GAY BARS LAS VEGAS CLOS

LGBT-iendly dive bar Bastille on 3rd, one of the olst gay bars Las Vegas, closed on Sunday. • The Bt Gay-Friendly Bars and Nightclubs Las Vegas [ELV].

Badlands Saloon is one of the olst gay bars Las Vegas and has been around for about 30 years.

Gipsy is owned by Pl San Filipo, who bought the legendary gay nightclub 1993. As the first gay nightclub Las Vegas was popular until more petn opened the late 90s. The history of Las Vegas’s LGBTQ+muny n be told through the history of s lbian and gay bars — Maxe’s, The Red Barn, Le Café, Snick’s, and many others.

FAMED GAY NIGHTCLUB GIPSY TO MAKE DRAMATIC 2022 RETURN TO THE EASTSI

None holds the history of gay Vegas though que like Gipsy, loted the heart of the “F Loop” at Paradise and Napl.

Born as a seri of swank Italian rtrants owned by the lik of Robert Goulet and Don Rickl, the club emerged to the gay nightclub scene the late 1970s as Dis Fever, party central for the pre-AIDS bacchanalia of dgs, sex and dis balls.

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1, 1980, helmed by the lorful and ntroversial Marge Jacqu, former owner of the popular gay rtrant club, Le Café. and Le Café was the first gay bar to openly allow same-genr dancg.

Gay historian Dennis McBri wrote that “the Las Vegas gay muny first found s voice” at Le Café. It was ls popular wh Clark County thori bee of owner Gee Adamian’s alleged mob volvement and a dirty tricks letter wrg mpaign to the County Commissn om Napl Street rints, supposedly stigated by Marge’s old rival Cale Castro, plag about noise, dg e and “homosexual acts.

FIRST GAY BAR THE LAS VEGAS ARTS DISTRICT OPENS DURG PANMIC

It was a fight for the gay muny. ” She says that Gipsy legimized the ia of a gay club. The club reopened on April 1, 1981 rechristened om Village Statn to Gipsy homage to the “show kids, ” the 80s Las Vegas phemism for the gays and lbians who patronized the club.

At the time, Clark County’s liquor and gamg read that any bs that tered to homosexuals, hookers, hoodlums, and hobos uld lose their license. The licensg board asked Rodgers, “Are you gog to enurage homosexuals to attend your place of bs?

She’ll rd every homo, hoe, hoodlum and hobo and won’t let them the club. Gay historian Dennis McBri relled, “There was a law the books that an dividual uldn’t wear more than two or three ems of clothg om the oppose sex which is why they tried to stop [Marge Jacqu] om havg drag shows. After fdg between Jacqu and Rodgers, Rodgers sold the club 1983 to Chuck Melfi, an openly gay Las Vegas bacrat aler, later turned horse rancher.

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I said I would clean up and make a cent gay tablishment. Inially there was the ual police harassment gay clubs had e to expect.

Acrdg to gay historian Dennis McBri, the Nevada Gay Actn League met wh then Clark County Unrsheriff John Moran who was mpaigng for Sheriff 1982 and ma a al to support Moran’s ndidacy the LGBTQ muny, if Moran agreed to pull back Las Vegas Metro’s harassment of gay bars. Unr Melfi’s ownership Gipsy was openly intified as a gay club for the first time (stead of the “show kids” phemism for gay). Melfi stood wh the gay muny the emergg AIDS crisis and held Las Vegas’s firstm AIDS benef at the club on Nov.

Gipsy’s beme a meetg place for LGBTQ muny clubs and anizatns and was a sponsor for Las Vegas’s first Gay Pri celebratns.