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- ILLOIS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
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ILLOIS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
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Type: Gay Friendly Bar. In a nutshell: The Clark Bar is not a gay club, but they are always gay-iendly to boys and girls alike...
“Not many people will remember the first actual ‘gay bar’ C-U, ” says Doug Barn, who grew up nearby Danville. Meetg other gays and jt the excement and feelg of beg able to be myself around everyone, I had been out most of my life, but beg that space was the begng of a whole new life. McNamara was the manager of a ltle bar lled Gvanni’s Place that opened Champaign 1975 and tered to the gay muny.
McNamara lghs warmly about the lounge at the Inman, lled the Crystal Room, beg the first ‘gay bar’. McNamara, now a rint of Palm Sprgs, Florida, remembers the Crystal Room, but says wasn’t the first ‘gay bar.
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One long-time fan posted to many ‘lik’ on Facebook, “C-Street was THE gay bar of C-U! “Chter Street Bar has always been hailed as ‘the gay space’ of the CU sce I n remember. “When you said you were gog to ‘the bar’ certa circl they knew meant you were gog to the gay bar.
“I’d already been toyg wh the ia of hostg a dis night at Chanc R that weled gays and had been talkg to the owners about , ” nfsed McNamara.