Burlgton's only gay bar was more than jt a haven for queens
Contents:
- CONTROVERSIAL GAY BAR OPENS WOOSKI
- NEW GAY BAR VERMONT
- REMEMBERG A GAY LANDMARK BURLGTON
- GAY BURLGTON TRAVEL GUI
- WOOSKI GAY BAR APOLOGIZ, CHANG NAME
- BT GAY BATH HOE TOWN - BURLGTON FOM
- GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BURLGTON
CONTROVERSIAL GAY BAR OPENS WOOSKI
Amber LeMay reports that there's a new gay bar openg South Burlgton, next to Higher Ground. WCAX, of all plac, nfirms. Wele, Two Friends... * burlington vermont gay bar *
Vermont has a new generatn of bar owners who are refg what means to be a “gay bar, ” cludg Bab Bar Bethel, shown on Friday, April 1. Where did the gay bars go?
NEW GAY BAR VERMONT
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Greggor Mattson, a profsor at Oberl College who studi LGBTQ+ culture, said his rearch has found as many as 37% of gay bars shut down across the untry between 2007 and 2019. Bee gay people n go to Olive Garn and hold hands. They don’t need your gay bar for everythg, ” Mattson said.
That starts wh the name: The term “gay bar” has fallen out of favor somewhat, replaced by “queer bar” or other terms that enpass a wi spectm of genr inty and sexualy. The shiftg dynamics wh the LGBTQ+ muny was one challenge Robert Toms faced when he ran 135 Pearl, the gay bar Burlgton that closed 2006.
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When Toms bought the bar, not only tered to the gay muny, but also held “women’s nights” for lbians and other LGBTQ+ women to ngregate and dance.
In one cint the early 2000s, a gay man acsted a trans man g the men’s room, sayg, “You’re not supposed to be here. Years later, 2017, a Wooski bar owner ran to accatns of transphobia when he announced he would rebrand his bar Oak45 as a gay bar.
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“Vermont is a very different place right now 2022, pendg on where you live, for a cis lbian-, gay- or bi-intified person than is for a trans person, ” they said. (He noted Fox Market may be the first “gay grocery store” he’s heard of.
They also plan to host a queer trivia night wh a tongue--cheek slogan: “Anyone n play, but ’s gonna be gay! “It’s been awome to wns people sayg, ‘I had this opn of gay people, but like, you’ve actually really helped me pick up on that and change the way I thk about gay people, ’” he said.
WOOSKI GAY BAR APOLOGIZ, CHANG NAME
WINOOSKI - Vermont's first gay bar over a weled a steady stream of ctomers when opened s doors Friday night, spe sparkg ntroversy over the tablishment's new name.
BT GAY BATH HOE TOWN - BURLGTON FOM
RELATED: LGBT group says Wooski gay bar should choose new nameThe Pri Center of Vermont held a "trans town hall" to hear om the transgenr muny last week. "Us olr gay mal ed to thk of gay bars as our home away om home, our safe haven, " said Lucy Bell LeMay, who scribed himself as a performg male drag queen.
"RELATED: Two Pri Center board members rign over gay bar nameLynn Vera, om South Burlgton, said she's always thought of Mister Sister as a iendly gay male way of talkg about drag queens.
GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS BURLGTON
To help queer folks who are nsirg movg to Gay Vermont, we have put together this gui om experts on the ground, nsirg the pros and ns of life here, discsg LGBT rights Vermont and whether Vermont embrac our muny. We also take a look at the most gay-iendly ci Vermont and LGBT muny anizatns Vermont that you should be aware of! However, you would be hard-prsed to fd an unwelg place this gayt of stat, where 5.3% of rints intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBTQ+) – beatg out Massachetts (4.9%), California (4.9%), Oregon (4.9%) and Nevada (4.8%)!