LGBT Nightlife | Columb Gay Friendly Bars and Clubs

Contents:

• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• NICE · GAY BARS
• ARLGTON SU PROPERTY OWNER OF BURNED-DOWN GAY-IENDLY BAR
• FATAL STABBG OF GAY MAN AT GAS STATN BEG VTIGATED AS HATE CRIME

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that. The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world.

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 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.

NICE · GAY BARS

It’s gay Cheers.

ARLGTON SU PROPERTY OWNER OF BURNED-DOWN GAY-IENDLY BAR

It feels like everythg a gay bar should be.

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. —Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic?

FATAL STABBG OF GAY MAN AT GAS STATN BEG VTIGATED AS HATE CRIME

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.