Whatever happened to ... the Rad Cy Lounge, Utah's olst gay bar? - The Salt Lake Tribune

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• CLUB GAY RAD
• CLUB GAY RAD LIVE
• GAY RAD STATNS
• WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ... THE RAD CY LOUNGE, UTAH'S OLST GAY BAR?
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• HOMOPHOBIC RAD HOST BTED AT GAY BAR
• EURO MEN'S CLUBPARISMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETON TODAYBARSLBIAN BARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASSHOPSMASSAGECAFéSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPTOURSEURO MEN'S CLUB
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ... THE RAD CY LOUNGE, UTAH'S OLST GAY BAR?

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Rose Carrier tend bar at Salt Lake Cy's Rad Cy Lounge, the olst gay bar Utah,. Rose Carrier tend bar at Salt Lake Cy's Rad Cy Lounge, the olst gay bar Utah, for 25 years startg 1960.

Salt Lake Cy's Rad Cy Lounge was known as the olst gay bar wt of the Mississippi.

In the first after opened 1948, most of Rad Cy's gay and straight clientele (as well as the bar's moniker) me om the rad and TV statns headquartered along Social Hall Avenue, jt north of the buildg's addrs at 147 S. "It was a straight bar durg the day, then at 7, the gay muny started g , " says Rose Carrier, who started pourg pts at Rad Cy 1960. " Durg the day, gay ctomers began g to the bar — where Carrier would greet them wh a kiss on a cheek — which the bar's straight ctomers thought "was terrible, " Carrier says.

HOMOPHOBIC RAD HOST BTED AT GAY BAR

But the bar's welg atmosphere and relative safety ma a refuge for gay men the pre-Stonewall era. Back the 1950s and 1960s Utah, nobody wanted to be seen gog to a bar, much ls a gay bar.

Newly out at the time, she remembers beg a b sry at first, but ultimately a welg place — a sort of gay Cheers. Others "had parents who tried to change their mds so they wouldn't be gay anymore, " Carrier says.

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My gay boyiends told me she was not a woman, and I said, No, no, I'm sure this was a woman; he was so good, " she says. When the gay liberatn movement began gag ground the early 1970s, Rad Cy began gettg petn. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.

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Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.

” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.