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- GAY BARS, RIP
- D.C. GAY NIGHTCLUB COBALT CLOS WH LTLE WARNG
- D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
- BT GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS WASHGTON DC
- THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- THE CREW CLUBWASHGTON DC'S PREMIER GAY SNA & GYM.WASHGTON DCMENULUXURY HOTELSMID-RANGE HOTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAPSHOPSTHE CREW CLUB
- LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
GAY BARS, RIP
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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. Capal Pri, one of the largt gay pri celebratns the US, is this weekend. The above map and s acpanyg history tell the story of the bars, bookstor, group hom, clics, and church that have played sential rol DC's gay muny for the past half century.
D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
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Durg the 60s and 70s, as LGBT activism moved more to the public foreont, the number of gay bars grew throughout the District; also emergg this time were Guild Prs, which published gay travel guis, fictn, and a newspaper lled Gay Fom, as well as the Washgton Free Clic, which provid STD unselg to gay men.
BT GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS WASHGTON DC
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The growth of gay spac slowed down the 1980s, she says, but at the same time the clud DC's first gural High Heel Drag Queen Race, which has now bee an stutn.
The slowed growth ntued the 90s and 2000s, but 's very possible that's bee time has passed, there's been ls of a need for gay people to hi pla sight.
“Wh greater acceptance has me blurrier l to what nstut gay bars and spac, ” wr Kate.
THE GAY WAY: HISTORY OF LBIAN BARS SOUTHEAST WASHGTON, D.C.
“Nowadays bars like Nellie's, 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.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
The data Kate ed to create the map is available through the Rabow History Project, an anizatn dited to llectg, prervg, and promotg gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr history DC. Unr the Lavenr Sre the feral ernment fired gay dividuals en masse.
'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 CREW CLUBWASHGTON DC'S PREMIER GAY SNA & GYM.WASHGTON DCMENULUXURY HOTELSMID-RANGE HOTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAPSHOPSTHE CREW CLUB
The prs and publisher would be nvicted of obsceny., started at Geetown Lutheran, beme the first place to provi STD unselg to gay men. 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.
LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
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.