"For the morng gays": The importance of LGBTQ-owned f as sober, queer spac |

Contents:

• "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
• LONDON GAY CAFéS & RTRANTS
• THE 5 BEST HSE GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS HSE

"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

We're jt for the morng gays. "When people thk of gay spac or queer spac, they immediately thk of a nightclub or bar — maybe a ltle hole the wall, " he said. Gay bars hold a eply important place the history of LGBTQ rights and visibily the Uned Stat.

LONDON GAY CAFéS & RTRANTS

For s and s, jt visg a gay bar was a high-risk activy.

For young members of the LGBTQ muny, gog out to a gay or lbian bar was almost like a re of passage. Growg up as a queer, Black women Louisville, Kentucky, Arielle Clark said that she felt like there were certa "ton" she wanted to meet to feel at home the muny: She wanted to attend Kentucky Pri and meet other LGBTQ people, and then she wanted to get to some kd of gay bar or nightclub bee that's where everyone spent time on the weekends.

THE 5 BEST HSE GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS HSE

Beg gay is often a soberg experience, but are gay people really that sober? Natnal surveys have tackled this qutn as much as they n by parg straight and gay drkg rat and the verdict is more black-and-whe than rabow: LGBT people drk more. LGBT people are also twice as likely to abe booze and what 's worth, gay men and lbians together dra most of the natn's vodka supply.

Q Center, 4115 N Mississippi Ave., 503-234-7837, Mnelli was good to the gays, and now 's time for you to return the favor by bleedg your bt performance at the Q Center's Cabaret wh a Q. Stag PDX, one of Portland's two gay strip clubs, offers s weekly TESTIFY drag bnch that tends to reel yuppie gays om Northwt. Hawks and Steam are Portland's last two gay bathho, and Sunday nights are bisexual nights.

Related: I Spent a Night One of Portland's Last Gay BathhoComg Out. 1119 Loct Street, Gayborhood.

Owned by JonCarl Lachman, the chef behd the East Passyunk favore (and sadly soon-to-be-closed) Noord, Wkel is a statn bnch spot the Gayborhood. Philly’s olst gay bar has been an in for the leather muny sce 1982 and is home to the Mx.

This cuty art and gift shop has everythg om Beyoncé-themed ems for your sk to lendars that remd you to be you no matter what "gay" of the week is. Loted the heart of the Castro, San Francis's most famo "gayborhood, " this mm foc on queer history and is the first stand-alone mm of s kd the US. Facg a lack of queer-specific gatherg plac Utah, many members of the state’s LGBTQ muny have embraced ffee shops as their -facto safe spac, servg as hubs for both nnectn and n be difficult to put a fger on what mak certa ffee shops more welg plac than other spac, but those that do offer the opportuny to be fully themselv: to wear clothg that bt exprs their genr and inty, to be openly affectnate wh a partner, or to otherwise prent as openly Mason, a 21-year-old Salt Lake Cy rint who grew up Park Cy, said a recent terview that there’s a “cent queer ffee culture” Utah — and that those spac provi a way for queer Utahns who are sober or who are too young to go to gay bars to build muny.

”Potts was an LGBTQ ally long before Jaxson, her now 14-year-old son, me out as gay, she said, and she hop Sugar Hoe Coffee is an example to other bs owners on how to be a welg space. Coffee GarnIn 1993, Alan Hebertson and Dieter Sellmair opened one of the first lolly-owned ffee shops Salt Lake Cy’s popular 900 East and 900 South then, the uple didn’t advertise that the Coffee Garn was a gay-owned bs.