M Uptown, a Beloved Gay Bar, Clos Denver — for Now? | Wtword

Contents:

• THE 5 BEST DENVER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS DENVER
• M UPTOWN, A BELOVED GAY SPOT, CLOS ITS NOW?
• THE BIG GAY DNER AND SOCIAL GROUP

THE 5 BEST DENVER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS DENVER

It don’t intify self as an explicly gay bar, but ’s a popular hangout for olr gay men occupyg the former Barker Lounge space. Its owners have claimed ’s the cy’s olst gay bar, havg opened the 1950s and gone openly gay the 1970s, acrdg to Wtword, wh s stantly regnizable, rabow-pated door.

Although ’s not an overtly bear bar — owners scribe as Denver’s queer, unrground fetish bar — ’s a favore of the beard, equently mcle-bound class of gay men who scrib themselv as such (particularly the absence of the late Denver Wrangler). Tra also helps fill a blank spot that particular area’s Denver’s gay scene, wh a perch along Santa Fe Drive and diverse programmg that rang om drag shows and DJ nights to leather nights and beer bts. The name stretch back to the 1970s when the slim brick buildg hosted a gay club lled Triangle, and was a tryout spot for var, unsuccsful bars and craft rtrants after the origal Triangle closed the early 2000s.

Like Lucid, #Vybe featur a b more diversy than many gay bars, wh drag queens of lor and top tourg queens like Adore Delano swgg through regularly, addn to stand-up edy, game nights, Denver Brons parti (the cheerlears even stopped for a show recently) and lots more. Saturday night is a great time to check out Denver's most happeng gay nightclub, the always-packed Tracks (3500 Walnut St.

M UPTOWN, A BELOVED GAY SPOT, CLOS ITS NOW?

But, there’s a park the heart of the cy, and not far om Denver’s inic gayborhood Capol Hill, that has more than pop-up volleyball urts and hammocks. Wh s mythil two-step lsons early the eveng, go-go boys, cheap sloshy beer, and an entire room for s equent drag shows, this staple of the Denver gay scene has somethg for everyone.

Frequent Charlie’s-goer Sean Doyle ced the “be-yourself vibe” as one of the thgs that keeps him g back and ghed that, as Denver don’t have a ncentrated gayborhood the way, say, Chigo or San Fran do, Charlie’s is one of the “few plac that the gay muny n own as one of theirs. Denver’s olst gay bar, R&R Bar is a Denver staple.

THE BIG GAY DNER AND SOCIAL GROUP

If you’re lookg to see some queer entertament outsi of the regular gay bar circu, you n ually fd somethg out-of-the-ordary gog on at the Clocktower Cabaret.

Tripadvisor performs checks on Tra is a great gay bar!

A ltle over a year ago, we were reportg on the transformatn of what was then Hamburger Mary’s to M Uptown, a new face for a -old bs at 700 East 17th Avenue after s owners cid to scrap the Mary’s anchise for an pennt, lol and, most important, still very gay-iendly eatery, bar and club. Jennifer and Jeff Ktok signed on for a Hamburger Mary’s anchise 2005 and turned their place to a fixture of a new gay-borhood, wh the now-shuttered J. “Basilly, I feel the gay muny thought we abandoned them wh the name change, ” he explas, addg that even though the name and menu were the only thgs that changed last year, “they stopped g.

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Lala Shearz' Facebook page Jackie may have a pot, bee 2016 was a bad year for Denver’s gay bars and venu. The Eagle RiNo closed to make way for a major velopment, and there are mors that other gay waterg hol have dried up. We avoid the gay bars as that are nventnally available, and we e here seekg more!

This new addn to the area is an eclectic gay-iendly sports bar.