LGBTQ muny bids farewell to Louisville gay bar before Pri Month

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• THE BEST LOUISVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LOUISVILLE
• LOOKG FOR GAY BARS LOUISVILLE DURG PRI MONTH? TRY ONE OF THE LGBTQ PLAC
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• LOUISVILLE GAY BARS & THE QUEERT HAPPY HOURS 2021
•  KENTUCKY LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• 'I WANTED PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN.' AFTER 27 YEARS, LOUISVILLE SAYS FAREWELL TO INIC GAY BAR

THE BEST LOUISVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LOUISVILLE

But gay bars durg Pri month is a great start. And more answers to your Pri Month qutnsSo, if you're new to Louisville, new to the LGBTQ scene or are jt lookg to have a good time wh some of the cy's iendlit cizens, we've got some ias for are the most well-known and popular gay spots the cy:Know of any gay or LGBTQ-iendly bars that should be on this list? "Nowhere Bar — Highlands1133 Bardstown Road, 502-451-0466While not technilly a gay venue,  would be remiss to exclu Nowhere Bar.

LOOKG FOR GAY BARS LOUISVILLE DURG PRI MONTH? TRY ONE OF THE LGBTQ PLAC

That's bee has a healthy gay followg. "PRIDE Bar + Lounge — New Albany504 State St., New Albany, Indiana, 812-200-9546As Louisville ntu to burst at the seams wh LGBTQ tablishments, 's no wonr some has spilled across the river to Southern Indiana (OK, so that may not be where cred is due) Bar is the only Southern Indiana gay bar near New Albany gem is drizzlg glamoro showgirls — mostly on Saturday nights — and is fely worth a sashay and a shontay over the bridge — unls of urse you live 's a small dance floor, a stage for shows and a large pat. 5% of rints  the 13-unty Louisville metro scribe themselv as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr.

Opened 1987, Teddy Bears Bar is Louisville's longt-nng gay bar, and tends to brg a seasoned male crowd (ag 30-65), offerg karaoke fun on Wedndays and Sundays pl a fun monthly drag show, "Beti of the Bear. Marketplace Rtrant is part of The Village Louisville, a progrsive and LGBT-iendly Smoketown district revelopment project that clus a gay spa and boutique property, the Vu Guthoe.

Prolific lol bsman and veloper and LGBT activist Gee Stson and partner Ed Lewis opened Louisville's first gay club 1970 (and The Connectn, which had a 27-pl year n before closg 2016). It's part of a plex, The Village Louisville, which clus a three-story gay men's spa and sna, Vapor, and 1, 500-person pacy event space, C2.

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We are here to help you fd the bt Louisville gay bars AND Southern Indiana lol to spend some at while havg an absolute blast. Also, this property hoed the longt nsistently nng gay bar Louisville’s history, Teddy Bear’s, open for 33 years.

LOUISVILLE GAY BARS & THE QUEERT HAPPY HOURS 2021

The Perfect SreGay-Friendly NeighborhoodsBt FtivalsPlenty of LGBTQ VenuYou Aren’t Alone.

LouisvilleGay-Friendly Neighborhoods Louisville has multiple LGBTQ-iendly neighborhoods cludg Old Louisville, Smoketown, Germantown and Clifton. The gay-owned Vu Guthoe and Vapor are both loted the Smoketown neighborhood. Pandora Productns is a gay theater pany that offers performanc throughout the year.

Edor's Note: This story has been updated to provi addnal attributn and ntext around the history of the days leadg up to Christmas, Mike Flatt and his staff would wrap hundreds of prents for the ctomers at bar owner knew many of them didn’t have a home they were wele to for the many ways, the recently shuttered Louisville gay bar beme their meant at Christmastime, everyone walked out of the bar wh armfuls of gifts, and on Thanksgivg, people packed to the bar for a full turkey dner. When the bar opened the early 90s, fewer fai embraced gay men and their partners. That means that while there are more clive and safe spac around the cy for the LGBTQ muny  creat a sort of loss for plac like Tryangl that tradnally ter to a specifilly gay crowd.

 KENTUCKY LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

Flatt saw the downtick ctomers over the years as his Thanksgivg table thned out and his clientele grew more fortable mastream gay men have so many other plac they n go, Flatt told me when I met him on a Southern Indiana porch late June, about a month after Tryangl shut s doors for good at 209 S.

When the bar closed May, was the longt nsistently operatg gay bar Louisville and an stutn for the LGBTQ muny.

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'I WANTED PEOPLE TO HAVE FUN.' AFTER 27 YEARS, LOUISVILLE SAYS FAREWELL TO INIC GAY BAR

Here are 7+ thgs to do around Louisville to support the LGBTQ munyRobson, who was one of the first publicly HIV-posive people Louisville, remembers havg young gay men e up to him at the bar, pull him asi and nfi their own stat to him. Louisville turned out to be surprisg gay iendly, here’s some of the parts we really loved.