D.C.’s Newt Queer Bar is a Ltle Gay Pub. Lerally. | District Fray

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• LICHT CAFé, D.C.’S NEWT GAY BAR, IS A COZY, ART-FILLED U STREET HIAWAY
• D.C.’S NEWT QUEER BAR IS A LTLE GAY PUB. LERALLY.
• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

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

The natn's pal is home to a lively LGBTQ+ nightlife scene wh plenty of gay and lbian bars jt wag for you to jo on the fun. 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.

D.C.’S NEWT QUEER BAR IS A LTLE GAY PUB. LERALLY.

It took nearly three years of learng how to dance at the club off South Capol Street for the baby-faced Short to ga the self-assurance to tell his fay he's gay.

He was already meetg gays elsewhere the cy and said he no longer need to be at the nightclub to feel special. But the past month, he and others have started g back to mark the fal days of a place that for most of the past 15 years was a hub for many the area's gay muny.

And never before had so many gays and straights, women and men, blacks and wh, met unr one roof to dance.

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

The club's rise and mise reflect the expansn of social life for gay men and lbians the cy.

Gay magaze that foc on arts and entertament. Only a handful of gay dance clubs existed the District, and a few bars set a small space asi for dancg.

Fridays and Saturdays were primarily whe gay men.

Sundays brought black gays, and Tudays were rerved for lbians.