D.C.'s Bt Gay Bars and Hangouts - Eater DC

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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.

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

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.

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. "It was a ltle b shockg, " said Carrn-Sague, who grew up Catholic Puerto Ri, where she heard sermons about the sfulns of homosexualy. Nightclubs that weren't tradnally patronized by gays started advertisg lol gay publitns.

Gays uld be open rtrants, ffeeho and loung Geetown, Capol Hill and Adams-Man. And the Inter ma possible to chat wh other gays round-the-clock and around the world. "The world has changed so gay people n go and experience more, " Bailey said.

Velvet, he said, is perceived as a place for fashnable and ser clubbers who are primarily gay men, whereas Tracks is an "everyone" place. It was his first nightclub and the first place where he felt tly fortable beg gay.