Louisville's LGBTQ history: Timele of KY gay, lbian and trans past

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• LOOKG FOR GAY BARS LOUISVILLE DURG PRI MONTH? TRY ONE OF THE LGBTQ PLAC
• THE BEST LOUISVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LOUISVILLE
• 'I WANTED PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN.' AFTER 27 YEARS, LOUISVILLE SAYS FAREWELL TO INIC GAY BAR
• LOUISVILLE GAY BARS & THE QUEERT HAPPY HOURS 2021
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• THE BEST KENTUCKY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS KENTUCKY

LOOKG FOR GAY BARS LOUISVILLE DURG PRI MONTH? TRY ONE OF THE LGBTQ PLAC

But gay bars durg Pri month is a great start.

And more answers to your Pri Month qutnsSo, if you're new to Louisville, new to the LGBTQ scene or are jt lookg to have a good time wh some of the cy's iendlit cizens, we've got some ias for are the most well-known and popular gay spots the cy:Know of any gay or LGBTQ-iendly bars that should be on this list?

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"Nowhere Bar — Highlands1133 Bardstown Road, 502-451-0466While not technilly a gay venue,  would be remiss to exclu Nowhere Bar. That's bee has a healthy gay followg. "PRIDE Bar + Lounge — New Albany504 State St., New Albany, Indiana, 812-200-9546As Louisville ntu to burst at the seams wh LGBTQ tablishments, 's no wonr some has spilled across the river to Southern Indiana (OK, so that may not be where cred is due) Bar is the only Southern Indiana gay bar near New Albany gem is drizzlg glamoro showgirls — mostly on Saturday nights — and is fely worth a sashay and a shontay over the bridge — unls of urse you live 's a small dance floor, a stage for shows and a large pat.

5% of rints  the 13-unty Louisville metro scribe themselv as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr.

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'I WANTED PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN.' AFTER 27 YEARS, LOUISVILLE SAYS FAREWELL TO INIC GAY BAR

Flatt saw the downtick ctomers over the years as his Thanksgivg table thned out and his clientele grew more fortable mastream gay men have so many other plac they n go, Flatt told me when I met him on a Southern Indiana porch late June, about a month after Tryangl shut s doors for good at 209 S. When the bar closed May, was the longt nsistently operatg gay bar Louisville and an stutn for the LGBTQ muny.

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Here are 7+ thgs to do around Louisville to support the LGBTQ munyRobson, who was one of the first publicly HIV-posive people Louisville, remembers havg young gay men e up to him at the bar, pull him asi and nfi their own stat to him.

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Opened 1987, Teddy Bears Bar is Louisville's longt-nng gay bar, and tends to brg a seasoned male crowd (ag 30-65), offerg karaoke fun on Wedndays and Sundays pl a fun monthly drag show, "Beti of the Bear. Marketplace Rtrant is part of The Village Louisville, a progrsive and LGBT-iendly Smoketown district revelopment project that clus a gay spa and boutique property, the Vu Guthoe. Prolific lol bsman and veloper and LGBT activist Gee Stson and partner Ed Lewis opened Louisville's first gay club 1970 (and The Connectn, which had a 27-pl year n before closg 2016).

It's part of a plex, The Village Louisville, which clus a three-story gay men's spa and sna, Vapor, and 1, 500-person pacy event space, C2. We are here to help you fd the bt Louisville gay bars AND Southern Indiana lol to spend some at while havg an absolute blast.

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Also, this property hoed the longt nsistently nng gay bar Louisville’s history, Teddy Bear’s, open for 33 years. ”Out of the shadows:Why the people are unverg Louisville's storied LGBTQ historyEarly 1900sThe LGBTQ muny largely met private up until the early 1900s when gay men steadily veloped a work of public plac where was safe to gather, such as the Hogan’s Founta area of Cherokee Park, Old Louisville’s Central Park and Fourth Street between downtown and Central Park. 1947After World War II, more gay-iendly or exclively gay bars appeared  Uned Stat ci.

11, 1970, judge led agast the uple Febary 1971, and two years later, the Kentucky Supreme Court 1970In July 1970, 13 women and two men tablished the Louisville Gay Liberatn Front or LGLF.

The group met at the home of s two primary -founrs, Lynn Pfuhl and Mike Randall, and the anizatn was among dozens that sprang up the Uned Stat followg the formatn of New York’s Gay Liberatn Front late LGLF also pneered what’s believed to be Kentucky’s first ll- phone le for gay and lbian people.

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Group members also opened The Gay Lib Hoe at 1919 Bonnystle Ave.

1972Louisville’s Metropolan Communy Church ngregatn, a lol branch of a natnally gay-iendly group, began meetg private hom 1972. This was Louisville’s first morn gay dis and was known for s extravagant drag shows. For the next 14 years, the hotspot beme Louisville’s most clive and popular gay bars until closed 1989.

1981Sam Dorr had worked at First Natnal Bank for nearly two s when he was named print of a pro-gay advocy group wh a relig affiliatn 1981. 1983Louisville’s Central Prbyterian Church, loted the historilly gay-iendly Old Louisville neighborhood, passed a “More Light” rolutn, which embrac gay members 1983.