The downtown nightclub, loted at 18 E Universy Ave, beme Gaville’s first gay club after openg s doors more than 30 years ago. It’s wily regnized as the heart of Gaville’s LGBTQ+ nightlife.
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LGBTQ MIGRANTS AND GAY PRI™
“At first, was only a uple s and then when the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ me along and book banng — actually, feels like more than three s. Lren BrenselLren Brensel is a journalism sophomore and a metro reporter for The Alligator. The missn of the Pri Communy Center of North Central Florida is to foster and enhance the well beg and visibily of transgenr, bisexual, lbian, gay, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual (LGBTQ+) persons, and to promote public unrstandg and affirmatn of people of all genr exprsns and sexual orientatns, clive of race, ethnic background, natnaly, enomic stabily, spirualy, age, and abily.
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CELEBRATG GAY PRI, 50 YEARS AFTER STONEWALL
Jianna D’Addar, a 22-year-old psychology senr, attend her first gay club and drag show at Universy Club sce livg nservative Panama Cy, Florida.
Like D’Addar, equentg UC sce the Sprg semter of sophomore year, Swarthman has noticed a change the club’s clientele sce enterg the scene. Although Unversy Club is the only official gay nightclub Gaville, havg one dited space for LGBTQ+ people to gather mak for a close-kn muny, Summers said. Now that the glter is ground to the rpet and the rabow flags are put away ‘til next season, is ccial to remember our ras Central Ameri whose gay pri paras sometim lead northward toward the Mexi borr, across the adly Sonoran Dert, and to the Uned Stat.