6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER — QUEER DENVER LIVING

Contents:

• "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
• 6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MOSW GAY BARS
• 6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER
• GAY PORTLAND

"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.

6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER

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

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

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.

Beg gay is often a soberg experience, but are gay people really that sober?

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

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.

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If you’re the Denver area, you’re luck bee there are que a few gay-iendly ffee shops where you n easily go and set up shop for the day to get through your to-do list. Whether you’re lookg for a quick boost or a place to hunker down wh your laptop, we’ve round up seven of our fave gay-iendly ffee shops Denver.

It’s a gay bar that offers Sunday bnch, and at bnch, you n get everythg om sweet creme blee ench toast to classic eggs benedict and even breakfast burgers! DAZBOG COFFEEBelieve or not, Dazbog Coffee, which has many different lotns throughout the cy, is also gay-iendly. The one on E 9th Avenue is specifilly known to be credibly gay-iendly, so try to go to that one if you has some of the bt ffee Denver.

6 GAY-FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOPS IN DENVER

It’s a move forward, but also backward: Coffee has a long history of fuelg unofficial queer spac, om mid-century ffee shops and ders that hosted gay, lbian, and trans muni to funky, lived- ’90s f.

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Very few bs, outsi of the thng ranks of gay bars and downright endangered LGBT bookstor, label themselv as queer-centric. There are ffee shops wh gay or queer owners, and often they tend to draw a siar clientele — there have been a handful of tim I’ve walked to a random ffee shop and disvered, to my light, that was full of queer people like me. There were too many people for to feel like a hoe party, but was also a far cry om the scene at many gay bars, where patrons tend to arrive — and clter — wh iends they already know, or foc on pursug romantic partners.

Buyg Target’s ugly attempts at rabow fashn is a crime agast gay humany.

I’ve met and worked wh so many gay, bisexual, lbian, trans and nonbary baristas that givg my ffee orr to someone wh aggrsively heterosexual vib jt feels downright strange. As Alim Kheraj wrote GQ, “Essentially, iced ffee has bee a queer avatar, and a way for gay people to signpost themselv agast the uniformy of heterosexualy.