The number of gay bars has dwdled. A new generatn plans to brg them back. - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• THE 10 BEST UNED STAT GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS UNED STAT
• GAY UNED STAT TRAVEL GUI
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
• THE CHANGG MIX OF GAY BAR SUBTYP AFTER COVID-19 RTRICTNS THE UNED STAT, 2017 TO 2023
• THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

41) Bar Gaytherg (Miami Beach, FL)42) Cafe Lafte In Exile (New Orleans, LA)43) Cubbyhole (New York, NY)44) Srlet Honolulu (Honolulu, HI)45) The Goln Lantern (New Orleans, LA)46) Freddie’s Beach Bar & Rtrant (Arlgton, VA)47) Replay Beer and Bourbon (Chigo, IL)48) Berl (Chigo, IL)49) Marty’s Marti Bar (Chigo, IL)50) The North End (Chigo, IL). We intified bs the gay bars tegory, then ranked those spots g a number of factors cludg the total volume and ratgs of reviews between January 1, 2016 and April 28, 2021. Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St.

The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur. —Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli.

When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce. It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria. While you won’t fd any Pri flags at Farraguts, you will undoubtedly hear Cele Dn and Melissa Etheri blarg om the bar’s dty, old jebox and, hontly, isn’t that jt as gay?

THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI

CourtyDallas: Round-Up SaloonEqual parts wboy boots and dis ball, Round Up Saloon opened 42 years ago Dallas as a gay untry wtern dance hall. Live out your Brokeback Mounta fantasi at this verno club, where wboy stum are not nsired drag, and le dancg is not an explic exprsn of homophobia. A gay gatherg spot sce 1939, and gay bar sce 1963, and the Bar Complex sce the 80s, s unassumg exterr beli a triple-threat treat of lounge, performance space, and a mirrored dance club reportedly moled after Stud 54.

) The glorly lively bar and rtrant scene is enhanced by a black box theater downstairs, where farcil plays, lbian standup, and gay dance troup reign. If you want to get away om the typil scene at fellow gay bars Olly’s and Gregs Our Place, English Ivy is an ial place to meet iends: mature enough for a proper Ladi Lunch (or bnch or dner.

THE 10 BEST UNED STAT GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS UNED STAT

They are stars the makg and their rendn of Cele Dn’s “It’s All Comg Back to Me Now” will shatter your pt glass and break your ltle, gay heart.

GAY UNED STAT TRAVEL GUI

It’s not a gay bar the tradnal sense, but a place where traed pianists play selectns om Broadway shows and all of the drama teachers and mil theater majors of the tri-state area nverge to sg along. It was the se of an early gay-liberatn “sip ” 1966, years before Stonewall, and has been a low-key haven ever sce, wh a diverse clientele, a small menu, classic cktails, and an extensive (and packed) 4:00-7:00 happy hour. It’s not que French-themed, ’s not que Mardi Gras-spired, feels as close as we have experienced this untry to a gay neighborhood pub.

The origal was burned down an anti-gay hate-crime a few years back, but the revival has jt opened across the street and is bigger and better, wh a new performance space. CourtyWashgton DC: TraIn a town where n feel like every other bar is crawlg wh Capol Hill staffers lookg to talk shop, Tra is the rare, glorly gay dive where absolutely everyone is wele to jt kick back.

Wh that beg said, we’ve gathered the bt gay bars and nightclubs the US — om Seattle’s Pony to New York Cy’s Gym Sportsbar — that every person on the spectm n tly enjoy. Callg all gay sports fans and athlet: Gym Sportsbar New York Cy serv up the bt of both worlds for gay sports fans, allowg them a place to watch and discs their favore sports a queer-iendly environment. ” Asi om beg a revolutnary gay bar Chigo’s Far North Si, Big Chicks is celebrated for s one-of-a-kd art hangg on nearly every rner of the tablishment, pictg proment divas large portras.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

Set New Orleans’ French Quarter, the Bourbon Pub Para is regularly regnized as one of the untry’s most prtig gay bars and a center for big and bold drag shows. Jt wh the past two years, Mnota’s Tw Ci have bee a statn for the LGBTQ muny, drawg natnal attentn for beg one of the more gay-iendly Midwtern lotns on the map.

THE CHANGG MIX OF GAY BAR SUBTYP AFTER COVID-19 RTRICTNS THE UNED STAT, 2017 TO 2023

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That number has gone up over time — more and more Amerins are g out as ’ve prevly taken a look at the Gayt Ci Ameri and, to no one’s surprise, San Francis checked as the gayt cy. What was surprisg, to at least, was the relatively low percentage of hoeholds that reported to the Cens as gay San Francis — only got thkg, if the gayt cy the untry has a gay populatn that small, how small mt the gay populatn be across Ameri? The bottom of the overall list (25-50) is no surprise as a bunch of Midwtern stat and the South populate the bottom half (At least people don’t report livg same sex hoeholds there, we’d image the% of the populatn that is gay is pretty nsistent everywhere).

Follow along as we break down the stat wh the largt same sex populatn or feel ee to check out some of other rearch:The Are The 10 Cheapt Stat In AmeriSaft Stat In AmeriWorst Stat In AmeriThe 10 Gayt Stat In Ameri For 20201. Now, you might thk Las Vegas would have the most gay Amerins Nevada, but Reno and Las Vegas are virtually tied when to the percentage of gay rints. Although, you uld make a se that Las Vegas has more gay people wh s cy lims at any given was actually lled the Queert Ltle Cy the World by a leadg thor, who ced.

THE NUMBER OF GAY BARS HAS DWDLED. A NEW GENERATN PLANS TO BRG THEM BACK.

It was so popular Nevada actually banned cross drsg for a 5 Star Saloon — Olst Contuoly Operatg Gay/LGBTQ Bar the State of Nevada is Reno as well.

The Palm Sprgs regn, which clus the muni of Rancho Mirage, Dert Hot Sprgs and has a very large gay muny, and fact, has an entirely LGBT cy uncil.

The Castro District is the center of the gay muny San, there’s a long list of well known and not so well known LGBT sports people who have spired lns across the untry. One leadg thor said the Gay and lbian culture is as much a part of New York’s basic inty as yellow bs, high-ris, and Broadway theater New York Cy was home to the 1969 Stonewall Rts at the Greenwich Village Inn, loted the gay district of Manhattan.