UN CAFÉ CON A: GAY Y EXTRANJERO EN COREA - NORAE MAGAZINE

Contents:

• "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• UN CAFÉ CON A: GAY Y EXTRANJERO EN COREA
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

Unn Cafe’s two gay pri flags reprent fe owner Rajh Lahoti’s sire to create a welg environment.

Lahoti, owner and founr of the rtrant, said Unn Cafe was one of Columb’ first LGBT bars and the third LGBT bar the untry wh open wdows to the street, spe the risk that often me wh beg an openly gay tablishment at the time. I felt beg gay and not beg whe was hurtg me. CollsThe rtrant is a culary landmark San Francis, but s history as a space for gay visibily is ltle the late 1970s, Billy Wt, seen here 1992, set about creatg a rtrant where gay and straight ders mixed CollsPublished May 28, 2021Updated June 1, 2021In 2013 Judy Rodgers, the 57-year-old chef of Zuni Café San Francis, yield at last to the rare appendix ncer she’d stggled wh for more than a year.

Wt’s fotten Wt opened Zuni 1979 jt blocks om Cy Hall, three months after an ex-p assassated the gay San Francis supervisor Harvey Milk, part to shatter a agile L.

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

Wt expand Zuni to adjacent storeonts on Market Street throughout the 1980s, tabl the rtrant’s sttered dg spac were a mix of policians sus, operagoers tuxedos and gowns, and out gays and lbians T-shirts and jeans — all served by waers wh an unhibed queer prence. Wt and his bs partner, Vce Calgno, Zuni would drive the movement for queer polil and social tegratn the ntext of the mastream rtrant, at a time when the tragedy of AIDS was tensifyg the stigma around beg gay. “Billy was a celebry the rtrant world and the gay world, ” said Gilbert Pilgram, Zuni’s current owner, who met Mr.

“And that ntributed a lot to the mystique of Zuni: an openly gay man beg the owner of what was really a trendsettg rtrant. And AIDS wh s ranks the 1980s and ’90s, the years before effective treatment, when gay men food, cludg the chef Felipe Rojas-Lombardi and the okbook thor Richard Sax, died largely silence, wh no mentn of their stggl wh only public narrative of Mr. “Not jt gay people, but the olt of gay people and straight people hangg out together.

Wt’s dér, and he liked the sound of the the gay artist Gee (Bubba) Geiger, Mr. David adored the pany of gay men, and took to Mr. “It was very important to me as a 20-somethg-year-old gay man to go to a rtrant and see that most of the staff was gay, ” Mr.

UN CAFÉ CON A: GAY Y EXTRANJERO EN COREA

You uld go to a rtrant the Castro, but to go to the favore rtrant of Elizabeth David and have gay people serve you? People settg the terms for hospaly openly, beyond the gay ghetto. “Zuni, ” said David Tanis, the okbook thor and New York Tim lumnist, “always was and has remaed the gayt rtrant San Francis.

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"When people thk of gay spac or queer spac, they immediately thk of a nightclub or bar — maybe a ltle hole the wall, " he said. Gay bars hold a eply important place the history of LGBTQ rights and visibily the Uned Stat. For s and s, jt visg a gay bar was a high-risk activy.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

For young members of the LGBTQ muny, gog out to a gay or lbian bar was almost like a re of passage. Growg up as a queer, Black women Louisville, Kentucky, Arielle Clark said that she felt like there were certa "ton" she wanted to meet to feel at home the muny: She wanted to attend Kentucky Pri and meet other LGBTQ people, and then she wanted to get to some kd of gay bar or nightclub bee that's where everyone spent time on the weekends.

LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

Good lotn: cy centre, another gay club (911) the nearby area and a gay iendly hostel next to stay (Inga Hotels).

But the area n be harr to navigate for those who are not whe gay men. The Harvey Milk-era of gay rights activism is no ls important — ’s jt that the LGBTQIA+ muni are vast and nta myriad ways to exprs and reprent sexualy and genr.

Growg up gay the Amerin South was not a pleasant experience, Miah Jefa says.

In the South Bay, they go to the off-the-beaten-path gay bar Renegas. “Jolene’s is also a spot that is workg hard to -cis-gay-man the queer nightlife scene, ” Calamia says. It’s a move forward, but also backward: Coffee has a long history of fuelg unofficial queer spac, om mid-century ffee shops and ders that hosted gay, lbian, and trans muni to funky, lived- ’90s f.

Very few bs, outsi of the thng ranks of gay bars and downright endangered LGBT bookstor, label themselv as queer-centric. There are ffee shops wh gay or queer owners, and often they tend to draw a siar clientele — there have been a handful of tim I’ve walked to a random ffee shop and disvered, to my light, that was full of queer people like me.