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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.

THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA

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.

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

“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.

LBIANS CLAIM STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE DOMATG GAY BARS VIRAL VIO

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. 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.

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

“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.

LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE

’ 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.

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

I don’t have to worry about gettg gay bashed or anythg like that.

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

And I knew that was a gay bar. “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.

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

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.

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

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. 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. 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.