Gay Nightlife Columbia, South Carola: Bt Bars, Clubs, & More

Contents:

• THE 10 BEST COLOMBIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLOMBIA
• GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• THE BEST COLUMBIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS COLUMBIA
• WHAT HAPPENED TO COLUMBIA’S GAY CLUBS?
• GAY COLOMBIA TRAVEL GUI
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
•  MISSOURI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAY SOUTH CAROLA TRAVEL GUI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAYT PLAC IN MISSOURI FOR 2020
• GAY MELL
• GAY BOGOTÁ TRAVEL: COLOMBIA’S GAY-FRIENDLY CAPITAL

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GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

This is, by far, the bt gay bar Mell. For a relatively small cy the nservative state of South Carola, Columbia has a surprisgly fervent gay nightlife scene.

A uple of the town's most popular LGBTQ+ bars are wh view of the stately pol buildg, and a few more mixed but gay-iendly bars and hangouts are the Five Pots retail and entertament neighborhood, not far om the Universy of South Carola. While Columbia isn't a gay mec, do rank among the more welg statns the state, and the cy hosts the annual South Carola Gay Pri celebratn. Visors n enjoy some gay-iendly plac to drk, de, and tch live mic this iendly cy and hub of South Carola polics and tn.

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While there aren't many exclively-gay bars or clubs Columbia, there are some lively on full of karaoke, dancg, drag shows, and drk specials, among other fun activi. The Capal Club: One of the longt-nng gay bars the Southeast, and the olst Columbia, the laid-back and private Capal Club is a block om the pol buildg downtown. PT's 1109: In the shadows of the pol buildg, PT's 1109 is arguably the most popular gay bar and nightclub Columbia, wh a good-size dance floor and drk specials.

The venue has drag shows, karaoke, and a variety of parti, pl events supportg Gay Pri and other muny anizatns.

Some of the bt, most novative food the cy n be found a short walk om both the Capol and the cy's gay bars. The mt-do event is the South Carola Gay Pri celebratn which has taken place Columbia sce 1989 and is one of the state's ma events. Columbia, SC Prime Timers is a group of olr gay or bisexual men (pl younger men 21 and up) that holds many activi: Check out their potlucks, piics, movi, plays, lol and out of town trips, and more.

WHAT HAPPENED TO COLUMBIA’S GAY CLUBS?

He lik to tell younger people about The Capal Club’s early days, a very different — and ght — time to be a gay bar South Carola. The Capal Club, or simply “Capal, ” as patrons ll , is the olst operatg gay bar Columbia, and acrdg to s webse, the Southeast. Jt around the rner is PT’s 1109, the cy’s other gay bar, which opened 2000.

Through discsns wh bar owners and patrons and analyzg rerds om Historic Columbia, The Carola News and Reporter unvered a strange statistic: Columbia, 2022, has only those two gay bars, the lowt number the cy sce 1960. Like a lot of gay bars at the time, Rumors started as a private club wh a guard list of members.

“I was still playg what was typilly lled ‘gay mic. A sign by the door said the membership clud gay, straight, Black and whe, and anyone who ed trouble would be asked to leave.

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On Two Notch Road, The Candy Shop was known as Columbia’s only Black gay bar. “That was the only Black gay club for around, ” she said.

You had gays there, straights there, you had everybody at The Candy Shop.

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It was also a place to get away om racism at other gay clubs, cludg for Snrs, a Black trans woman.

Lane remembers Traxx as a rary even among the few gay bars town, beg targeted towards women. Even today, lbian bars are ls mon than male gay bars.

Many of them were straight wh gay iends, but some were closeted, Skipper, the print, said. Before he me to Columbia, someone shot through the wdows of a gay bar Wilmgton, N.

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Straight people “me (to The Candy Shop) bee their iends were gay and they were jt hangg out, ” she said. A GAY MAN’S DISEASE.

In 1983, Tony Price, a regular patron of the clubs and a gay rights activist on USC’s mp, was a play at the school’s Longstreet Theater. The first s were seen California and New York 1981, acrdg to In 1982, South Carola’s first se of what was dubbed the “gay ncer, ” bee disproportnately affected gay men, was diagnosed Charlton.

The cy’s gay clubs soon were on the ont l of the epimic.

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He said young men who had been diagnosed wh the disease would e to him the bathrooms of gay bars cryg and askg for help. After the ial wave of fear and silence, natnal AIDS activists forced discsn of the disease – and other issu the gay muny – to the mastream. Columbia hadn’t had a gay rights movement the 1970s like bigger ci, so the activism that spng om the clubs durg the AIDS movement was the first time gay liberatn had e to the cy and state.

In 1990, the first “gay pri” march the state was anized Columbia.

WHERE DID THE GAY CLUBS GO?

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Snipers never attacked the pri march, and the AIDS crisis didn’t kill off gay bars, but many who are still around om that perd say there was a noted change the culture of the clubs.

Addnally, gay acceptance creased the 1990s, changg the mographics of bars. Fally, the rise of the ter paralleled a drop the number of gay-only clubs, natnally and lolly. Other clubs opened the same buildg — at first they remaed predomantly gay clubs, Berler said, but each new eratn of the club beme more llege oriented and ls gay oriented.

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Other LGBTQ bars opened throughout the ’90s, but Historic Columbia’s rerds show a sharp cle the number of gay clubs startg the early 2000s.

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Supreme Court, and 2014, gay marriage the state was legalized.

Some who are still around om Columbia’s gay bar heyday thk there is ls mand for LGBTQ clubs bee members of the muny are more accepted society. “We have gay policians, out gay people bankg and real tate and the medil field — everywhere, ” Berler said. DO WE STILL NEED GAY BARS?

Capal Club and PT’s are the only remag dited gay clubs the cy.

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A third bar, Art Bar, which opened 1992, is a popular “gay-iendly” club, Price said.

“Straight people might not want to go to a gay bar, but when you put their element, they’ll appreciate a show, ” Snrs said.

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“I don’t thk there’s anythg as exclive as a gay bar anymore, ” he said.

The ont entrance to The Capal Club, the longt ntuoly operatg gay bar Columbia (Photo by Caleb Bozard). The ma entrance of PT’s 1109, one of Columbia’s two remag proment gay bars (Photo by Caleb Bozard). PT’s 1109, one of Columbia’s few remag gay bars, featur male dancers and popular drag shows.

The buildg that now serv as Midtown Fellowship Church’s downtown lotn once hoed several gay bars, cludg Rumors, which was once lled Columbia’s Stud 54.