The California Legislative LGBTQ Cc released the followg statement rponse to the Cho Valley USD Board vote | California Legislative Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgenr and Queer Cc

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• THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• BT GAY CLUBS SAN ANTON

THE BT LGBTQ+ AND GAY CLUBS LONDON

For a young scene a mid-sized cy, gay Las Vegas boasts some ser sprawl.

Like the hog velopments and strip malls that ver the Vegas map like glter on a go-go boy, the lol gay and lbian muny is imprsively spread throughout the valley, all but screamg: we’re here, we’re queer, we’re, of urse, only fuels plats about disnnectn and a lack of a te gayborhood. And the latter reflects the cltered nature of gay bars Las UNLV-adjacent “F Loop, ” the origal gay hub, still draws boys to Piranha, the least pretent of the gay clubs Las Vegas, and girls to FreeZone, the cy’s honorary lbian club.

Over revalized downtown—home to the new $4-ln Gay and Lbian Communy Center of Southern Nevada—the only out-and-proud drkery is the 38-year-old Snick’s Place, though lively East Fremont piano bar Don’t Tell Mama and hip Arts District urban lounge Artifice are unofficial homo of downtown, the agg Commercial Center reprents the gay alternative, hostg everythg om poker bars (Badlands Saloon and Spotlight Lounge) to a trans-iendly dive (Las Vegas Lounge) to cisg facili (Entourage Spa and Hawk’s Gym) to a boys’ clothg/accsory store (The Rack) wh an attached performance space attached (Onyx Theatre) and ample LGBT programmg. Krave, former kg of the gay clubs Las Vegas, is now back mid-Strip at the Tommy Wd Theatre after a failed attempt at a downtown expansn.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Gay Las Vegas has e a long way, but still isn’t S Cy. Wh Thursday night dance lsons, Happy Hour all night long on Wednday, Thursday, and Sunday, Wednday game nights, Thursday karaoke, and plethora of gut performers and events, ’s no wonr that Neon Boots is a favore of the gay girls – and boys – when to dancg and playg and otherwise g a ck! Defely known as a gay bar first and foremost, the girl set is always wele.

BT GAY CLUBS SAN ANTON

The Montrose area, Hoton’s own gayborhood, is also a great area to fd hangouts that are perfect for hangg wh the girls.

Once a btlg tourist stop on Route 66, the 39th Street District is now home to 45 lol bs, cludg several gay bars and clubs. There were queer bars along the ast, but they largely tered to cisgenr gay men. On one night, the Smallmans met a iend at a New Orleans gay bar.

Mattson, who has extensively rearched recent chang gay bars, veloped his report om the gay bar listgs the Damron Gui, the longt-nng and only guibook that documents LGBTQ plac the natn. Overall, he found, gay bars cled by 36.

So if you’re lookg at the pal of whe cis gay men vers the pal of whe, Black, brown, Asian, Lata, queer women, the dispary is huge. “When Tanya [the origal owner] me out, was the 1950s, early ’60s, and the bar she ed to go to was always gay men and gay women together bee she told that wasn’t legal.

[Tanya] always really enjoyed the pany of gay men and transgenr people, and even though she wanted the lbian space, she never unrstood why the whole gay muny uldn’t socialize wh each other. ’ The opportuny me along for a women’s night at Flix [a gay men’s bar] and I started that women’s night there 2001. But we’re all women: Gay, straight, bi, trans, everythg, queer.

That was my first experience at a gay nightclub.

I don’t have to worry about gettg gay bashed or anythg like that. And I knew that was a gay bar.