Meet Nia Gvatua, the Owner of Tbilisi, Geia’s Only Gay Bar | Vogue

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• VOGUE LOUNGE OPENG SOON AT STONEWALL SE. LEHIGH VALLEY WILL ONCE AGA HAVE A GAY BAR.
• A BIG NIGHT OUT: ANGELA DIMAYUGA’S NEW GAY BAR OPENED LAST NIGHT AT THE EAST VILLAGE STANDARD
• HOW THE OWNER OF TBILISI’S ONLY GAY BAR GETS DRSED
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY MAP
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• “RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM
• BALLROOM BATTLE: VOGUE DANCERS PETE AT PHOENIX GAY BAR
• 'IT'S ABOUT FEELG WELED': HOW GAY YOUTH FD BELONGG PHOENIX'S BALLROOM SCENE
• IN WASHGTON, DC, ARTIST SADIE BARTE TRANSFORMS HER FATHER’S FORMER GAY BAR INTO AN IMMERSIVE INSTALLATN
• SNA VOGUEFLAND'S FIRST AND ONLY GAY SNA.HELSKIMENUHOTELSBARS & CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASTOURSCY GUIGAY MAPSNA VOGUE
• VALLEY’S LGBTQ FD UNIQUE WAYS TO FILL VOID LEFT BY CLOSURE OF STONEWALL, OTHER GAY BARS

VOGUE LOUNGE OPENG SOON AT STONEWALL SE. LEHIGH VALLEY WILL ONCE AGA HAVE A GAY BAR.

Dimayuga opened No Bar, the East Village Standard’s new gay bar, wh a party featurg DJ sets by Osr Nñ of Papi Juice, Bebe of Club Glam, and a performance by non-bary artist Zah. This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, a seri of vlent protts that talyzed the gay civil rights movement the Uned Stat.

A BIG NIGHT OUT: ANGELA DIMAYUGA’S NEW GAY BAR OPENED LAST NIGHT AT THE EAST VILLAGE STANDARD

“This is gay history. To fd out more about how the space has transformed over the past 50 years, spoke wh the bar’s -owners about Stonewall’s legacy and what gay activism looks like , you acquired Stonewall 2006. It wasn’t beg treated how should’ve been: as the gay church of the gay muny.

It wasn’t even known as a gay bar—well was, but wasn’t treated as the gay bar where pri For me, sce the begng, was an opportuny to save history, Kurt brought me , we had been longterm iends, and I was workg wh a lot of different non-prof groups, cludg Marriage Equaly New York. In 1969, the gay muny fought back for the first time; they were beg abed. And June 28 of 1969 they fought back for the first time and that was the begng of the gay civil rights This place is really the birthplace of the morn-day LGBTQ movement, and utilize , and to remember that the fight that began here 1969 is certaly not over.

LGBTQ people don’t gather gayberhoods anymore; they gather all over the cy bee of onle datg and bee of the Inter. They don’t feel like they all need to flock to the village like they did 1969 when was the gay hub, or even when we took over 2006.

HOW THE OWNER OF TBILISI’S ONLY GAY BAR GETS DRSED

People are fdg muny outsi of your typil gay neighborhood, which n be problematic bee you feel like a younger generatn really needs that muny and that sense of fay person, not onle.

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

SL: I hope that at Stonewall 100 or Stonewall 75 that homosexualy and genr inty and genr exprsn are normalized. VOGUE Lounge Allentown is a Gay bar loted at. gay bar,.

But overall, bt gay pri Club I've ever went to. There is only one gay bar Tbilisi, Geia: a ty two-room club lled Succs, tucked down a si street off Rtaveli Avenue, the cy’s ma drag, and sandwiched between two nvenience stor.

While Succs is a happy haven for Tbilisi’s gay muny and Gvatua is certaly good spirs, she tells me that sce Succs opened about a year and half ago, has been the target of robberi, vandalism, and vlence—most recently, last September, when a man asslted a secury guard and shouted homophobic slurs.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Geia has long been known for s tolerance for the gay muny. Its history has been riddled wh vlence, cludg mass protts durg gay pri paras.

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Photographed by Julien BoutIn tth, the spot had been a gay bar for the 17 years prr, but Gvatua says had grown dated.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

“It was dark, the mic was terrible, and there were only two gays the rner, ” she says. “I love the gay muny, I thk homophobia is beyond stupid, and Geia needs to be liberated. ” Inspired by the safe gay spac Berl, Gvatua renovated the bar wh the help of a lol bsman, who owns the boutique hotels Stamba and Rooms.

“RH” IS TROYE SIVAN AT HIS GAYT, SWEATIT, AND MOST INTIMATE. HE TELLS VOGUE ALL ABOUT HIS NEW SGLE AND UPG ALBUM

Gvatua creds the rultg makeover wh helpg Tbilisi’s gay muny to open self October, for stance, Tbilisi’s first drag queen, Gerilyn, got drsed the back of Succs. The scene also fostered a kship system of “ho”—chosen fai wh anoted ‘mothers’ and ‘fathers’ who gui and support their ‘children’—and uplifted a llective rejectn of both whe supremacy and Black homophobia.

Read more: Why Black Trans Women Are Essential to Our Future In June 2019, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts that sparked the Gay Liberatn movement, Layleen Cubilette-Polan, an Ao-Domin trans woman and member of the legendary Ballroom Hoe of Xtravaganza, was left to die at the same prison, after havg an epileptic episo while solary nfement.

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Good lotn: cy centre, another gay club (911) the nearby area and a gay iendly hostel next to stay (Inga Hotels). 25 Gay Anthems We Need More Than Ever.

The inic ‘70s rock band led by gay superstar Freddie Mercury may be forever remembered for Bohemian Rhapsody, but this sexy, propulsive tune — that gleefully swaps male and female pronouns — perfectly ptur the spir of Pri. This banned vio, set a gay leather bar, ptur the song’s lic bchery. Forty-four years ago, Reed had a mastream h wh this hypnotic tale of gay and transgenr streetwalkers, spired by Andy Warhol’s darlgs of the unrground.

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After transng om Disney kid to pop prcs, Aguilera got ser and spiratnal wh this anthem (and explicly gay-iendly vio) support of everyone who’s ever felt different.

The former Supreme allegedly rerd this jnty tune as a tribute to her legns of gay fans. Before officially g out as gay a 1998 Advote terview, the ternatnal pop star rerd this song, which telegraphed his stggl wh his artistic and personal inty. Out and proud before was remotely fashnable, the androgyno Sylvter created this dis anthem — which beme synonymo wh gay liberatn.

IN WASHGTON, DC, ARTIST SADIE BARTE TRANSFORMS HER FATHER’S FORMER GAY BAR INTO AN IMMERSIVE INSTALLATN

The gay liberatn ‘70s and the age of dis (which was born gay clubs) created a bumper crop of gay anthems. The greatt and gayt novelty act of all time produced nothg but tongue--cheek gay anthems. But the vio of this song, that’s been played for s at bar mzvahs, was filmed at New York’s most notor cisg grounds — makg s gay subtext perfectly clear.

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From s irristible tro to s lir vols, this dis h om Swen’s greatt import has spired generatns of gay fans to cut loose on the dance floor.

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The gay in took the vogue-g tradn out of New York’s unrground gay and drag clubs and thst to the pop mastream — wng extra pots for sly shout-outs to glam ins of the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s.

Never one to simply put out a tune, Mother Monster giv an epic sci-fi tro to this electric anthem of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and ethnic self-assertn and pri. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor (1978). The ultimate gay anthem to burst out of the dis ‘70s is a song of fiance, pennce, and survival that speaks to anyone who ref to be held down.