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Contents:
- NEW GAY BAR VERMONT
- PODST REUNTS HISTORY OF VERMONT’S FIRST GAY BAR
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- CONTROVERSIAL GAY BAR OPENS WOOSKI
- GAY BURLGTON TRAVEL GUI
- GAYT PLAC IN VERMONT FOR 2020
- GAY GUI TO VERMONT
NEW GAY BAR VERMONT
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Vermont has a new generatn of bar owners who are refg what means to be a “gay bar, ” cludg Bab Bar Bethel, shown on Friday, April 1.
PODST REUNTS HISTORY OF VERMONT’S FIRST GAY BAR
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Where did the gay bars go? Greggor Mattson, a profsor at Oberl College who studi LGBTQ+ culture, said his rearch has found as many as 37% of gay bars shut down across the untry between 2007 and 2019.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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Bee gay people n go to Olive Garn and hold hands. They don’t need your gay bar for everythg, ” Mattson said.
CONTROVERSIAL GAY BAR OPENS WOOSKI
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That starts wh the name: The term “gay bar” has fallen out of favor somewhat, replaced by “queer bar” or other terms that enpass a wi spectm of genr inty and sexualy. The shiftg dynamics wh the LGBTQ+ muny was one challenge Robert Toms faced when he ran 135 Pearl, the gay bar Burlgton that closed 2006.
When Toms bought the bar, not only tered to the gay muny, but also held “women’s nights” for lbians and other LGBTQ+ women to ngregate and dance. In one cint the early 2000s, a gay man acsted a trans man g the men’s room, sayg, “You’re not supposed to be here.
GAY BURLGTON TRAVEL GUI
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Years later, 2017, a Wooski bar owner ran to accatns of transphobia when he announced he would rebrand his bar Oak45 as a gay bar.
GAYT PLAC IN VERMONT FOR 2020
“Vermont is a very different place right now 2022, pendg on where you live, for a cis lbian-, gay- or bi-intified person than is for a trans person, ” they said.
(He noted Fox Market may be the first “gay grocery store” he’s heard of. They also plan to host a queer trivia night wh a tongue--cheek slogan: “Anyone n play, but ’s gonna be gay!
“It’s been awome to wns people sayg, ‘I had this opn of gay people, but like, you’ve actually really helped me pick up on that and change the way I thk about gay people, ’” he said. Amber LeMay reports that there's a new gay bar openg South Burlgton, next to Higher Ground. That brgs the grand total of gay bars Vermont to 1.
GAY GUI TO VERMONT
" She not that the gay bar is next to the "dubly named" children's hair salon lled "The Hairy Bear. To help queer folks who are nsirg movg to Gay Vermont, we have put together this gui om experts on the ground, nsirg the pros and ns of life here, discsg LGBT rights Vermont and whether Vermont embrac our muny. We also take a look at the most gay-iendly ci Vermont and LGBT muny anizatns Vermont that you should be aware of!