Capal Pri Celebratn Voted Bt LGBT Event the Bt of Gay DC Awards - Capal Pri Alliance

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• OCTOBER 19, 2017 WASHGTON, DC BLA’S ‘BT OF GAY DC’ AWARDS CEREMONY
• CAPAL PRI CELEBRATN VOTED BT LGBT EVENT THE BT OF GAY DC AWARDS
• DC’S GAYBORHOODS ARE DISAPPEARG. HOW SHOULD WE FEEL ABOUT THAT?
• BT OF GAY D.C. 2017: MEDIA
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN WASHGTON DC

OCTOBER 19, 2017 WASHGTON, DC BLA’S ‘BT OF GAY DC’ AWARDS CEREMONY

October 19, 2017 Washgton, DC Bla’s ‘Bt of Gay DC’ Awards Ceremony | mayormb. Thank you very much to the rears of the Washgton Bla for votg the Capal Pri Celebratn as the Bt LGBT Event the Bt of Gay DC awards this year. I remember my first gay bar.

I knew only a handful of gay people at the Universy of Maryland, where I was a senr, but one night a guy my mp a ppella group ved me out to Apex, a club near Dupont Circle. Sce 2014, at least four signifint LGBTQ venu have closed and around DC’s tradnally gay areas of Dupont Circle and Shaw. Sad as that is, pots to an even bigger issue: Whher the gayborhood?

Gay people here have always had low-key spots where they went to meet one another.

CAPAL PRI CELEBRATN VOTED BT LGBT EVENT THE BT OF GAY DC AWARDS

) But the 1960s and ’70s, somethg new emerged—a specific neighborhood where gay people lived and socialized openly, fg a muny that proclaimed s buddg self-nfince through shared public space. The area’s gay-intified f, bookstor, and nightclubs were polil as much as functnal.

Dupont Circle emerged as the first of the gayborhoods Washgton.

DC’S GAYBORHOODS ARE DISAPPEARG. HOW SHOULD WE FEEL ABOUT THAT?

The activist group Gay Liberatn Front–DC operated out of a hoe at 1620 S Street. In 1975, Gay Pri Day, the precursor to Capal Pri, began the neighborhood.

But lately, somethg more fundamental has changed: The whole ncept of the gayborhood seems to be disappearg.

Plenty of gay people still gravate toward Shaw, but no longer feels like the center of DC’s LGBTQ world—where everythg is always happeng, where you know you’ll be surround by like-md people who get and accept you. In the era of Grdr, there isn’t as much reason to go to gayborhoods, and even when people do socialize offle, gay-iendly optns are flourishg all over the cy. Of urse, gayborhoods were never jt about hookg up.

BT OF GAY D.C. 2017: MEDIA

But as attus have rapidly evolved over the last , gay culture has started to be absorbed to the mastream. “There’s ls of a gay muny any particular neighborhood, ” says Dean Maccubb, founr of Lambda Risg, which closed 2010.

” That gay uple who ed to rent an apartment Dupont? In Montgomery County, for example, gay people are tegratg to the broar muny ways that would have been hard to image a generatn ago.

TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN WASHGTON DC

” Indian Sprg, Montgomery says, has “totally embraced the gays. Society is a lot easier for to navigate, but every now and then you jt need that place for gay people. The Ain-Amerin lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny of Washgton, D.

From that ia me the first Black Gay and Lbian Pri, which was sentially a llaboratn among those three anizers, the DC Coaln of Black Lbians and Gay Men and the Inner Cy AIDS Network.

As DC Black Pri ntued to grow populary and programmatic offergs durg the mid-neti, anizers cid to make the event official by creatg a board of directors, filg for rporatn and beg a 501(c)3 nonprof anizatn—Black Lbian & Gay Pri Day, Inc. Twenty years after the first DC Black Pri drew 800 people to Banneker Field for a day themed “Let’s All Come Together, ” more than 300, 000 members of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny of Ain scent and their alli have e to celebrate the bety of a shared muny and raise awarens and fundg for HIV/AIDS the name and spir of Black Pri. Yet many LGBT men and women of Ain scent ntue to feel the need to velop muny to stand agast HIV/AIDS, homophobia spired vlence and the bigotry that exist.