THE BEST Jacksonville Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

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• OWNER OF THE METRO, THE NOW-CLOSED GAY BAR, REMEMBERS BIER DAYS AT THE JACKSONVILLE 'SAFE HAVEN'
• CARRIED BY THE SOUND: GAY CLUBS JACKSONVILLE HISTORY
• THE BEST JACKSONVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSONVILLE
• MOVG TO LGBT JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• JACKSONVILLE GAY BARS

OWNER OF THE METRO, THE NOW-CLOSED GAY BAR, REMEMBERS BIER DAYS AT THE JACKSONVILLE 'SAFE HAVEN'

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CARRIED BY THE SOUND: GAY CLUBS JACKSONVILLE HISTORY

“Metro Entertament Complex has been more than jt a gay bar, ’s been a sanctuary for so many, ” Jacksonville native Rj Kennedy said. “Metro was my first gay club, a place that allowed me to be myself and fd myself, ” one lol said. “We were always at full pacy on Gay Pri weekend, on Halloween, and on New Year’s Eve” Rosenberg said.

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Carried by the sound: Gay clubs Jacksonville history. While onle datg and broang acceptance of LGBTQ people the wir muny has led to a cle the number of gay bars and nightclubs, their role Jacksonville’s LGBTQ history n’t be overstated. By 1960, Jacksonville was home to at least three gay bars.

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In 1964, Roverta “Bo” Boen opened what beme Duval County’s longt nng gay bar, Bo’s Coral Reef. Another long-nng LGBTQ bs was Club Jacksonville, a bathhoe terg to gay men loted the wdowls buildg at 1939 Hendricks Avenue San Mar. Currently, Jacksonville’s olst gay venue is Metro Entertament Complex, formerly Club Metro, on Willow Branch Avenue Riversi.

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Riversi beme Jacksonville’s first substantial “gayborhood, ” and rints hosted the cy’s first Gay Pri Ftival at Willowbranch Park 1978, ne years after the Stonewall Rts New York galvanized the gay rights movement. In the 2010s, anizers and the cy lnched a renovatn of Willowbranch Park dited to s long LGBTQ history and to victims of the AIDS epimic that vastated the gay muny the 1980s and 90s. $$ · Gay Nightclub.

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