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Contents:

• THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• THE CREW CLUBWASHGTON DC'S PREMIER GAY SNA & GYM.WASHGTON DCMENULUXURY HOTELSMID-RANGE HOTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAPSHOPSTHE CREW CLUB
• WASHGTON DC GAY WELLNS

THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?

GLORIOUS HEALTH CLUB AND DUNGEONGYM | STORE | GAY ART GALLERYNO MEMBERSHIP FEES REQUIREDA Bi-GAY SAFE HAVEN​OPEN 24/7Distributg Free Condoms and LubeCOMFORTABLE LARGE LOUNGES, DUNGEON EQUIPMENT, OUTDOOR PATIO FOR SUNBATHINGSHOWERS ON-SITEFREE LOCKERS need lockATM ON-SITEPHOTO ID REQUIRED TO ENTERwe no longer regnize phone id'swe will give you 2 weeks to get a photo id wh a rrect You are buzzed Mt EXPOSE Hoodie and mask to verify your picture on "photo id" rd*Say LAST name lookg at the mera above the si buzzer entrance door. The Crew Club, which has operated as a gym, sna and bathhoe for gay men the natn’s pal for 25 years, will close s doors for good at s Logan Circle area lotn on Febary 29, acrdg to s founr and -owner DC Allen. Cozy apartments, private rooms and amazg hom: be weled by the gay muny over 200 untri.

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

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTVioTen percent of adults the District of Columbia intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, nearly three tim the natnal average. What mak the cy such a gay-iendly place? 15, 2013WASHINGTON — My earlit sense of what meant to be gay the natn’s pal me more than a ago when I was a summer tern.

But the msage was as clear as was unsettlg for a 20-year-old stgglg wh his own sexual inty: There were plenty of gay people Washgton, even at the hight levels of ernment. I now live the gayt place don’t take my word for .

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Consir what surveys by Gallup and the Cens Bure have found about the gay populatn here. When the District of Columbia is pared wh the 50 stat, has the hight percentage of adults who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to Gallup.

The natnal average is jt unr 1 of my first observatns about my new cy was the throngs of gay men I would see over the urse of a typil day all over town — walkg their dogs my neighborhood before work, ridg the Metro, workg the halls of Congrs.

“There’s an openly gay prence that mak you thk you’re the Castro or Wt Hollywood, and wasn’t always the se, ” Robert Raben, an assistant attorney general durg the Clton admistratn who was one of several openly gay people appoted by Print Clton, told me. “The feral ernment was a nightmare for homosexuals for s, and then wasn’t. Vansa Vick for The New York TimSuch ubiquy isn’t jt an abundance of gay bars, though there are at least six wh walkg distance of my hoe the Logan Circle neighborhood of Northwt Washgton.

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On the days I make the 20-mute walk om home to my office near the Whe Hoe, I will pass one example after another of this cy’s thrivg gay enomy: a Mchell Gold & Bob Williams furnure store; a clothg retailer whose wdow displays regularly feature bare-torso, well-endowed mannequs nothg but ty briefs; three CrossF gyms; the offic of two gay newspapers, The Washgton Bla and Metro Weekly (most ci nnot even sta one); a bathhoe; and the natnal headquarters for the Human Rights walkg through the Dupont Circle neighborhood the other night would have found themselv fightg for siwalk space wh the hundreds of spectators — many of them straight — who had gathered to watch the 17th Street High Heel Race, an annual sprt for drag queens who tear down the block heels. And when I tried to make plans a few weekends ago, I found most of my iends were booked solid bee they were attendg one of two huge gay-themed events: the Human Rights Campaign annual black-tie dner, featurg Jennifer Lopez as the ma event; or the Miss Adams Man drag pageant, which is such a large productn tak over the Washgton our feral district is measured agast other ci wh large gay populatns, a parison that experts say is better than parg to stat, still ranks at the top of the list. The numbers pture only those who acknowledge beg a same-sex gay man or lbian I spoke to for this article had a horror story about what was like workg the closet, fearg they would be found out.

It was only durg the Clton years that the Whe Hoe fally end the s-long practice of nyg secury clearance to people known to be gay or lbian.

WASHGTON DC GAY WELLNS

That meant orr to be nsired for many high-level jobs volvg accs to classified rmatn, gays and lbians had to nct a web of li about their personal Elmendorf, a Democratic lobbyist who worked on Capol Hill for years, scribed how he and his gay iends had to make sure they all gave the same referenc to ernment agents vtigatg their backgrounds, an surance policy so that if the qutn of their sexual orientatn me up, they uld be certa no one unpredictable would spill the Rosen, a longtime Democratic lobbyist, told me that the 1980s she once unsuccsfully tried to persua Senator Orr G. Hatch recently voted for legislatn to clu gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people feral nondiscrimatn law. He was closeted at the time but knew that at least two of the general unsels he worked for and one senr admistrator were secretly gay.

“It was poisono to be gay, ” he told me, “even when applyg for a ernment job. Richard Soris, a lawyer who was one of Print Clton’s openly gay appote, said that the early 1990s when he was applyg for a job on Capol Hill the office of Senator Tom Hark, Democrat of Iowa, one of the senator’s associat said that Mr.

Sean Bugg, executive director of the Next Generatn Learship Foundatn and edor emer of Metro Weekly, relled beg a reporter verg tax issu on Capol Hill 1990 when he bumped to another reporter he regnized at the Dakota Cowgirl, a popular gay bar at the time.