In Memoriam: 17 Defunct Gay Bars D.C., Chigo, Miami

Contents:

• D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS
• THE BEST WASHGTON DC GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON DC
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• BT GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS WASHGTON DC
• D.C. GAY NIGHTCLUB COBALT CLOS WH LTLE WARNG
• TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN WASHGTON DC
• THE BT GAY BARS WASHGTON, D.C.
• WASHGTON DC GAY DANCE CLUBS
• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

D.C.'S BT GAY BARS AND HANGOUTS

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.

THE BEST WASHGTON DC GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WASHGTON DC

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.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

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.

BT GAY AND LBIAN BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS WASHGTON DC

's evolvg gayborhood has shifted towards Logan Circle and U Street.

In Febary 2016, the Washgton Bla noted an "unual flurry of activy" wh the openg of four new gay bars, the majory of which land the U Street/Shaw/Logan Circle area.

D.C. GAY NIGHTCLUB COBALT CLOS WH LTLE WARNG

Those spots and more sports bars, dance clubs, and cktail havens are all clud Eater's round up of the District's gay-iendlit bars and hangouts.

TOP 11 GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS IN WASHGTON DC

New gay dive bar Tra opened last year, urty of the team behd Town Danceboutique and Number Ne. New to the Shaw/U Street gay bar scene is Uproar, which buted last year. The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that.

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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 olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic.

THE BT GAY BARS WASHGTON, D.C.

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. —Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars.

WASHGTON DC GAY DANCE CLUBS

It’s gay Cheers.

It feels like everythg a gay bar should be.

THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI

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.

THE U STREET CORRIDOR FALLY HAS A GAY CLUB AGA

—Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic? 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. It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood.

It brought the gay and straight muni together the ‘90s wh clever baret programmg. But perhaps most signifintly, gave the gay muny of Boston somethg sperately need: visibily.