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Contents:

• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
• AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE
• A MANC’S GUI TO: THE GAY VILLAGE, MORE THAN JT A LATE-NIGHT PARTY DISTRICT
• GAY NIGHTLIFE REYKJAVIK: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• 12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS
• GAY TAMPA
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

But several plac around the untry, they rema anchors of safety and Raff for The New York TimPublished May 28, 2021Updated May 29, 2021Stt Frankel’s favore memori of New York gay rtrants aren’t about food. ”But all those plac he so fondly remembers are long closed, as are Harvt, Orb’s and several others listed an article, headled “Rtrants That Roll Out the Wele Mat for Gay Ders, ” that ran this newspaper 27 years ago. The panmic h the untry’s urban gay rtrants pecially hard, said Jt Nelson, the print of the Natnal LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE

MeMe’s Der, a popular queer rtrant Brooklyn, permanently closed November, cg shutdown measur and a lack of ernment rtrants, like gay bars, are also facg cris of inty and purpose a time that is many ways more welg than the past, when gay people sought out gay rtrants bee they offered safety and acceptance that uldn’t be found elsewhere. Gay men equented plac like Orphan Andy’s, a mpy der om the same that’s still bs the Castro neighborhood of San Francis.

Atlanta had Waterworks, which a 1992 newsletter for the group Black and Whe Men Together lled the cy’s “only Black-owned gay rtrant.

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“Many of the more privileged young queer people have grown up wh cln, so they don’t feel the need to be a place where you’re sheltered om heterosexism, ” said Julie Podmore, an urban geographer at Conrdia Universy may be the se New York Cy, where gay rtrants are gog the way of dosrs (if not yet extct — Elmo and other spots are still keepg their gay fan base fed) elsewhere the untry, many gay rtrants are thrivg — as treasured lol bs, facto muny centers, refug om ntug anti-queer vlence and potential paths forward for a rtrant dtry a recent Saturday night the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washgton, Annie’s Paramount Steak Hoe was by, and was gay. That seed was planted by her great-nt Annie was beyond supportive of the gay muny and beme, for many of the rtrant’s racially diverse ders, a mother figure before her ath 2013.

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”For Steve Herman, 79, who has eaten at Annie’s sce 1976, that reason is the fact that Dupont Circle isn’t as gay as once was. ”The historian Gee Chncey trac gay eatg plac New York Cy back to the cheap urban dg halls that tered to unmarried workers the late 19th century.

In the 1920s and ’30s, the police often raid feterias like Horn & Hardart, where gay men gathered to “ridicule the domant culture that ridiculed them, and nstct an alternative culture, ” as Mr. People phed back agast a police roundup by g ffee and doughnuts as the 1980s, Florent was a refuge for gay New Yorkers durg the worst years of AIDS. When straight upl brg children to the unpretent brick buildg for chicken tenrs on weekends, the place feels more like an Applebee’s than the almost 40, Naps, as regulars ll , is the olst gay bar and rtrant Green Bay, acrdg to Arnold Penrgast, 61, who has owned wh his hband, Stacy Dotel, 56, sce 2012.

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

Lols gather for chary drag shows and to watch Packers gam over baskets of fat and crispy beer-battered d bee ’s one of the few gay optns town. ”“If the panmic tght anythg, ’s that nnectg digally is not enough, ” particularly for workg-class gay people, he said, like those at Naps.

Moudi Sbey found the Mederranean rtrant 2017 wh Derek Kchen, then his hband, who was elected to the Utah State Senate a year Sbey, 33, prefers to ll Laziz a queer, not gay, rtrant to signal “that we are clive love. And once upon a time, before the tech boom and rent hik, gay bars were more abundant than Starbucks Capol the last uple years, however, many of Seattle’s long-standg gay and queer bars and tablishments have closed down. At the time, the queer bars I pass are stg silent and shuttered: Pony, whose signage announced 2014 to a changg neighborhood, “This is a very gay bar.

12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS

As spac close or relote search of cheaper rent, there is an opportuny to rethk both the nature of queer space and the boundari of Seattle’s gayborhood. My two gay bt iends and I were dner regulars at the Broadway Grill; hnted mortuary-turned-gay-bar Chapel; and danced our hearts out at club and drag performance venue R Place, where I always felt wele, both before and after I me out as queer and genr-expansive. Its five female founrs chose the space for s large wdows, a revolutnary move durg a time when “gay bars were more like speakeasi, ” as Manng told the Seattle Channel, hoed dark, hidn spac.

“When Capol Hill first started gentrifyg, I’d be [workg the] door, and people would ask, ‘Why are there so many gay bars here? The gayborhood of my youth was punk-rock and unashamedly queer, a rehg ntrast to the homogenized culture and merce that domated downtown and the suburbs. Dpe the “myth of gay affluence, ” LGBTQ people face higher rat of poverty than their cisgenred, heterosexual peers, along wh barriers to social servic and health re.

At the time, strict laws regulatg sodomy, same-sex dancg, and drag forced them unrground, but most “gay bars end up simply payg off the police to prevent them om beg harassed, ” says Peter Boag, profsor and Columbia Chair the History of the Amerin Wt at Washgton State Universy. This bribery system ma Seattle “a hot town for gay people, ” as turn-of-the-century performer Hannah Banana once scribed , wh vville and drag at s center.

GAY TAMPA

At the Garn of Allah, Seattle’s first gay-owned baret, renowned performers such as Skippy LaRue were drawg both gay and straight crowds 119 years before Ru Pl’s Drag Race beme a cross-cultural phenomenon.

The historic Dorian Society opened a muny center there 1969; the Uned Ebony Council, a Black gay male anizatn, formed 1975, and both groups met at the Mombo Rtrant and Lounge, whose owner helped end the police bribery system. Seattle’s first publicly gay bar, Shelley’s Leg, opened 1973, terg primarily to lbians, wh other woman-oriented bars followg su. But as gay and lbian activism gaed tractn the 1970s and 1980s, however, s lears displaced many of the genr-expansive people and BIPOC who drove the origal movement.

O’Stayformore has found hom Geetown for her drag show, Ban Strip; Burns scrib Whe Center’s nascent gayborhood as remiscent of “old Capol Hill, ” wh a more diverse scene that clus some of the olr lbians who might once have graced the Rose’s booths and barstools. While much of this progrs n be creded to the gay and lbian activist cultur of the 1960s and ’70s, the irony is that they created a future where the next generatn of queer people feel ls affy wh the “G” and “L” labels — and the spac that go along wh them. Even Toce, spe her publitn’s name, don’t necsarily intify wh the word “lbian” (she prefers “gay”), but feels that the Seattle Lbian is “fillg a niche the muny that I thought need to be there.

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Gay women are more likely than men to marry or habate, pecially Washgton state, as well as to divorce; this siphons patrons off the lbian bar scene first when they “nt, ” and aga when they bee sgle parents. ” She would like to see more queer space that targets patrons at “different pots our liv, ” such as 25-year Hill veteran Gay Cy, which boasts a library and ffee shop along wh arts and culture programmg, youth servic, and health and tnal rourc.