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• THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA
• THE BEST WASHGTON DC GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON DC
• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• WASHGTON DC GAY BARS
• WASHGTON GAY MAP
• NEW YORK CY GAY DANCE CLUBS

THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

The natn's pal is home to a lively LGBTQ+ nightlife scene wh plenty of gay and lbian bars jt wag for you to jo on the fun.

Larry’s Lounge is a gay neighborhood pub, wh always-affordable drks, solid happy hour specials, mouth-waterg pub fare (see: sweet potato tots) and one of the cy’s iendlit pats (you n brg your dog, too!).

Number Ne to the btlg Logan Circle urty of -founr Ed Bailey, who helped DC’s gay nightlife scene to grow durg his days as a DJ. Suated right the heart of Adams Man’s btlg 18th Street is Pchers, a gay sports bar, and A League of Her Own, the adjacent bar for lbian and queer women. Larry’s Lounge is a gay neighborhood pub, wh always-affordable drks, solid happy hour specials, mouth-waterg pub fare (see: sweet potato tots) and one of the cy’s iendlit pats (you n brg your dog, too!

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Bunker, a subterranean gay club, opened s massive doors to live DJ sets on Thursday, Febary 23. In the past three years, all of the cy’s siar clubs have closed, cludg Cobalt, Secrets, DC Eagle, and the largt gay dance club D.

While Bunker is the first bona fi gay club D. Unr the Lavenr Sre the feral ernment fired gay dividuals en masse.

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's longt ntuoly operatg gay bars and one of the olst Ain-Amerin gay bars the untry, opened 1957. Was the 'first gay-owned bar to offer same-sex dancg', sentially breakg the owner ban on dancg.

Also ntributed to 'the iatn of dancg DC gay bars on a regular basis. ' Down the street published gay travel guis, gay fictn, physique magaz, and lol newspaper Gay Fom. The prs and publisher would be nvicted of obsceny., started at Geetown Lutheran, beme the first place to provi STD unselg to gay men.

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This would lead to the Gay Men's VD Clic, a precursor to Whman-Walker clic. Others, like and, provid not only gay lerature but ccial space for activism and muny gathergs. Gay llectiv also emerged the 1970's as an important force gay activism.

Was one of the first gay dance clubs around South Capol Street, a "relatively isolated lotn, gave a sense of secury that more -town lotns uldn’t. Barracks Row and Pennsylvania Avenue SE rema a vibrant LGBT scene, but faced harassment om Mar at the Barracks., a gay club that opened 1980, reported six cints by Mar cludg broken wdows, shoutg slurs, threateng patrons, and asslt. MPD was strongly cricized when, durg a 1987 raid of gay bar, they donned "surgil masks and bber glov" for fear of ntractg AIDS.

Nob Hill, one of the untry's olst gay bars, hosted the first AIDS fom the Ain-Amerin muny. Provid a home for the Gay Men's Counselg Collective, which later bed wh the Gay Men's VD Clic, started at, to form the Whman-Walker Clic, the foremost provir of AIDS servic the regn.

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Phase 1 and Nob Hill, one of Ameri's olst lbian bars and Ain-Amerin gay bars, rpectively, closed. Wh greater acceptance me blurrier l to what nstut gay bars and spac. Monthly events like MIXTAPE and Guerilla Queer Bar Parti started up the 2000s to brg the LGBT muny en masse to non-gay bars and clubs.

Nowadays bars like, one of the few notable gay bars to open sce 2000, are attend by straight people and many bars whout the tentn of beg a gay bar wele and celebrate their LGBT muny. Owner Spencer Hurd moled Licht after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany.

His dream: lnchg a cktail bar moled after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany.

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“The goal is to foc on the classic cktails, rather than jt vodka-sodas and rose Kennedys, as you may get at other gay bars, ” he says. Licht Café is a reference to the spiratn om his go-to gay spot Mannheim, but also reflects his ial zy space.

“I love art and sign, ” Hurd says, “and I wanted to make the bar unapologetilly gay. “I want the to be a bid edgy—this is a part of gay culture.