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Contents:

• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• "FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC
• THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
• WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAY HEAD

LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY

Owner Spencer Hurd moled Licht after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany. His dream: lnchg a cktail bar moled after his favore gay fé Mannheim, Germany.

"FOR THE MORNG GAYS": THE IMPORTANCE OF LGBTQ-OWNED F AS SOBER, QUEER SPAC

“The goal is to foc on the classic cktails, rather than jt vodka-sodas and rose Kennedys, as you may get at other gay bars, ” he says. Licht Café is a reference to the spiratn om his go-to gay spot Mannheim, but also reflects his ial zy space.

“I love art and sign, ” Hurd says, “and I wanted to make the bar unapologetilly gay.

“I want the to be a bid edgy—this is a part of gay culture. The U Street NW strip’s gay bar scene is on the up as of late.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

Kiki owner Keaton Fedak, the former general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose, will expand Kiki to the next-door space that formerly hoed dive Dodge Cy.

“We’re hopg to make a gayborhood Shaw, ” he told Eater last month.

WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'

Meet Kiki, an Excg New Gay Bar Replacg a Pair of Shuttered Shaw Div.

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

Val Dupont Gay Bar Cobalt Is Closg After Two Des. We're jt for the morng gays.

"When people thk of gay spac or queer spac, they immediately thk of a nightclub or bar — maybe a ltle hole the wall, " he said.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Gay bars hold a eply important place the history of LGBTQ rights and visibily the Uned Stat.

GAY HEAD

For s and s, jt visg a gay bar was a high-risk activy. For young members of the LGBTQ muny, gog out to a gay or lbian bar was almost like a re of passage.

Growg up as a queer, Black women Louisville, Kentucky, Arielle Clark said that she felt like there were certa "ton" she wanted to meet to feel at home the muny: She wanted to attend Kentucky Pri and meet other LGBTQ people, and then she wanted to get to some kd of gay bar or nightclub bee that's where everyone spent time on the weekends. Stunt is secretly anthetized and sodomized by his gay roommate.