Bunker and The Ltle Gay Pub are slated to bee the latt addns to D.C.'s nightlife offergs for the LGBTQ muny.
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- GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS WASHGTON DC
- LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
- D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
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“I love art and sign, ” Hurd says, “and I wanted to make the bar unapologetilly gay.
“I want the to be a bid edgy—this is a part of gay culture. The U Street NW strip’s gay bar scene is on the up as of late.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
Kiki owner Keaton Fedak, the former general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose, will expand Kiki to the next-door space that formerly hoed dive Dodge Cy.
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“We’re hopg to make a gayborhood Shaw, ” he told Eater last month.
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