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Contents:

•  TENNSEE LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• LBIANS CLAIM STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE DOMATG GAY BARS VIRAL VIO
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE
• RSIA'S LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUB STRIV TO BE A HAVEN DPE HORRIFIC ATTACKS
•  GEIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
•  MISSOURI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
•  FLORIDA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

 TENNSEE LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

The trend of bars gog dark isn’t unique to lbian, gay or other LGBTQ+ tablishments. As bt anyone n tell, the number of lbian bars peaked the 1980s, toppg out around 200 bs, acrdg to Greggor Mattson, an associate profsor of soclogy at Oberl College & Conservatory, who rearch LGBTQ+ muni, gay bars, equaly, and gentrifitn. But the most mon reasons ced by the operators of the dozen lbian bars terviewed by CNN Bs are the wage gap and fancial dispari of queer women and genr mori, as pared to their straight and cisgenr unterparts, as well as gay men.

LBQ women tend to have lower e, lower spendg abily, and higher rat of poverty than gay men, straight women and straight men, said Bian Wilson, a senr scholar of public policy at The Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law. “We always say, ‘gay is so rilient, ’ … for the most part, ” said Moe Girton, owner of lbian-centric bar Gossip Grill San Diego, California. Gossip Grill saw a sal cle of 80% durg the panmic; however, gay club unterpart Urban Mo’s saw sal cle 40%.

There were queer bars along the ast, but they largely tered to cisgenr gay men. On one night, the Smallmans met a iend at a New Orleans gay bar. Mattson, who has extensively rearched recent chang gay bars, veloped his report om the gay bar listgs the Damron Gui, the longt-nng and only guibook that documents LGBTQ plac the natn.

THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA

Overall, he found, gay bars cled by 36.

So if you’re lookg at the pal of whe cis gay men vers the pal of whe, Black, brown, Asian, Lata, queer women, the dispary is huge.

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

“When Tanya [the origal owner] me out, was the 1950s, early ’60s, and the bar she ed to go to was always gay men and gay women together bee she told that wasn’t legal. [Tanya] always really enjoyed the pany of gay men and transgenr people, and even though she wanted the lbian space, she never unrstood why the whole gay muny uldn’t socialize wh each other. ’ The opportuny me along for a women’s night at Flix [a gay men’s bar] and I started that women’s night there 2001.

But we’re all women: Gay, straight, bi, trans, everythg, queer. That was my first experience at a gay nightclub.

I don’t have to worry about gettg gay bashed or anythg like that. And I knew that was a gay bar.

LBIANS CLAIM STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE DOMATG GAY BARS VIRAL VIO

“When I was about 16 — my sister’s gay also — we had gone to this club San Anton, Texas, and was kd of the first time that I saw her like a peace a sense, like she was her own element. A sign on the enterance to A League of Her Own, loted the basement of the Gay Bar “Pchers” Washgton, D. But on the other hand, we have all the straight people that e bee they’re acceptg [of] all the gay people.

The gay people n go wherever they want, and the straight people have no problem g to this bar. So then when they do e back out, they you know, they e out more sporadilly vers the sgle lbians or queers, gay men. So the difference between gay guys and lbians is that once lbians uple up, I don’t see them for six months.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

And unr that umbrella is lbian, gay and bi and trans. Maybe gays are accepted more, but there’s nothg like the feelg of your own space where you know ‘I’m not gog to be judged if I e here. Lbians ntributed to gay rights jt as much as anybody else, jt as much as gay men.

’ And the lbian bars and the gay bars, ’s important bee ’s a space where you n jt be yourself. It’s been some form of a gay bar for a long time. Wrer and social mentator Roxane Gay chuckled while scribg her first vis to a lbian bar—Panic Bar Lln, Nebraska.

” Gay scrib the bar, which closed this fall, as a dive, and summed up why was special: “It was jt ol to go, and know that there were other lbians the world. Across the untry, nightlife spac dited to queer and gay women have been closg at a staggerg rate over the past 30 years. Gay, who liv Los Angel, says she don’t unrstand why there are so few bars—L.

LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE

And they n be sexy spac, ” says Gay. Some historians cred San Francis’s Mona's 440 Club, which opened 1936, as the first, but the blog Lost Womyn’s Space not the 1933 repeal of Prohibn led to Chigo’s first lbian and gay bars, so ’s possible Roselle Inn opened before Mona’s. She entered New York’s Greenwich Village lbian bar scene the late 1950s, when most lbian and gay bars were mafia-owned.

RSIA'S LARGT GAY NIGHTCLUB STRIV TO BE A HAVEN DPE HORRIFIC ATTACKS

Black and Puerto Rin women attend New York’s downtown bars, and Ntle spoke of a thrivg bar life for black gays, lbians and passg folks Harlem and Spanish Harlem om the 1930s to the 1950s.

As the gay rights movement gathered momentum followg the 1969 Stonewall Rts, lbian bars ntued to evolve, solidifyg their importance.

 GEIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

They beme plac where anizers met and brastormed, and the se of numero fundraisers once AIDS gripped the gay muny.

 MISSOURI LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

“In-person gatherg enabled our muny to monstrate and march and form the activist anizatns that led to the Gay Rights Movement, ” says Shockey.

(Gay men’s bars have stggled wh siar issu to a lser gree. Julie Mabry, owner of Pearl Bar, not that, even before Covid-19, women had ls disposable e, which means lbian bars typilly don't ask for ver charg or provi bottle service, yet they pay the same creasgly high rents as gay and straight bars.

 FLORIDA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

The bar is loted the basement of Pchers, Perzza's gay sports bar. Gay Rights,.

Everyone knows that change n be cremental, but the phrase “gay bar” sounds cliché anymore. The cy’s nizens talk about often: Nightlife tablishments, be they storied or new on the scen, have seen their rpective clientel grow to be clive of not jt gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr lols and visors recently. It’s not overtly “gay!

Before we prent you wh our list of bt gay bars Philalphia, a few tertg facts about the lol LGBTQ scene: almost every LGBTQ-centric statn the cy is found Gayborhood, an enclave Center Cy Philalphia that has quickly bee one of the most regnize neighborhoods town.

Good lotn: cy centre, another gay club (911) the nearby area and a gay iendly hostel next to stay (Inga Hotels). Although the issue of straight people choosg to attend gay clubs for a night out is nothg new, a recent viral vio on TikTok has reigned the Mastroieni, known on the app as Sophiamastt, shared a clip of herself sat bed on September the footage she explas that "Last night I asked 5 different girls if they were gay at a GAY CLUB and every one of them were straight AT A GAY CLUB I give up.

Another person, Tomi, add: "'Straight bars are terrifyg for woman' why then make GAY bars terrifyg for GAY PEOPLE. "However, others did not thk that was unfair for a straight woman to attend gay bars, cludg TorixGalba who wrote: "Lerally sayg that there are only 21 bars and sayg ls people should go to them. A stock image of a Gay Pri event.

A recent TikTok vio has reigned the bate about whether straight people should attend gay bars.