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• MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV
• RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD
• VOGUE LOUNGE OPENG SOON AT STONEWALL SE. LEHIGH VALLEY WILL ONCE AGA HAVE A GAY BAR.
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• JO THE Q — FOUR NEW GAY VENU LE UP TO OPEN HELL’S KCHEN
• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
• A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• WILL YOU BUY GAY WATER?
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV

This is also the first time Huynh will own a bar, but a ago he was a bartenr at some of the most proment gay bars San Francis, mostly the Castro district.

When he took stock thgs, Huynh said, “I realized that the bt tim my life were the Castro, beg myself, beg gay and ee. “I would love to make a quote unquote Castro of Oakland, ” he said, “where people flow om bar to bar all night, a real gay scene right here Oakland. The new project om Keaton Fedak, the outgog general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose.

Across the street om Kiki and Dirty Goose, unaffiliated gay tablishment Nellie’s Sports Bar ma negative headl this June after a secury guard asslted a Black woman.

RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD

Asslt Agast a Black Woman at Nellie’s Could Lead the Gay Bar to Lose Its Liquor License [EDC].

VOGUE LOUNGE OPENG SOON AT STONEWALL SE. LEHIGH VALLEY WILL ONCE AGA HAVE A GAY BAR.

“He’s such a sweet guy, and I knew he’d wanted to do somethg for the Lat gay muny, ” Senghor said. His new gay "ultralounge" and rtrant, The Garn Las Vegas, opened the Arts District this month amid a slew of red tape and the tablishment still lnched, plans had to be amend to acodate ever-changg health s. We are the only gay bar Vegas that offers a mixology cktail menu, no smokg, and soon to have day drkg wh bnch soire!

You may want to check out the Arts District’s new gay bar, The Garn. The terr has gotten a major face-lift to create what Cordova is llg “an upsle gay bar and rtrant. “The Garn is a h new ncept gay nightlife here Las Vegas, ” he explas.

At the time, he says, he wasn’t allowed to publicize as gay bee he was told “MGM will eak out.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

Yet his dream of openg his own gay bar downtown Las Vegas was repeatedly met wh the same objectns om potential partners and vtors.

THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

His employe clu a straight man, a trans woman, a bisexual woman, a lbian and several gay men, and they wele all ctomers. But he firmly believ ’s important to intify as a gay tablishment.

JO THE Q — FOUR NEW GAY VENU LE UP TO OPEN HELL’S KCHEN

The gay bars and gay centers have always been a safe place for the LBGT muny to be themselv and jt have a safe place to exprs themselv and not be judged. Beyond that, he says he feels a personal sense of safety beg a bar that’s clearly tablished as gay. At this pot, The Garn appears to be the only gay bar the Arts District.

So if I n turn First Street to the gay street, this uld be a ltle gay district. Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016.

Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street. The venue is the only Latx gay bar LA that explicly ters to a gay and Mexin dience every night, not jt as a theme once a week. But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology.

STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny.

Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach. One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows. Dubbed by KCET as Montebello’s bt Lato gay bar, Chi is the sister to Club Cobra, servg as a groundg se for the queer Latx muny the suburbs of East LA.

It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi.

A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS

27 plac sorted by traveler favorBars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)Bars & Clubs • Gay BarsDowntown Manhattan (Downtown)What travelers are saygDgn1010Dungannon, UK392 ntributnsSo ol to be drkg such a historil bar.

Flamg Saddl is the perfect mix of great drks, Amerina, gay culture and cute bar high energy gay bar rais the roof wh their bar top dancg bartenrs. There are plenty of gay bars up and down 9th ave and there's no reason to spend money at a place that will treat you like total trash, threaten you, and be unnecsarily belligerent and make you feel unsafe jt bee they're on some kd of power trip. I went to a few gay bars, and by far this was the bt place to dance and the mic was the bt here, varied, and not too much dance mic like you got your head bangg a fish bowl!

If you have gay iends like me, brg them there, you will have the bt night out! PRIDE weekend is unrway — and marks the openg of a new gay club and another three new venu headg to the gayborhood. The newers will go some way towards replacg the many gay bars that closed Hell’s Kchen durg the panmic.

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

A gui to New Orleans’s bt gay bars, LGBTQ-iendly spac, and Pri month celebratns.

Early Sprg is for the Gay Easter Para the Quarter, Southern Dence clos out summer, Saturdays are for pool scen, Sundays are for drag bnch and tea danc, and late nights are for dancg away at Oz. The bar also serv as the kickoff pot for the annual Gay Pri Para, held that Saturday, followed by all night long celebratns upstairs at the bar — which might jt be the highlight of the whole day.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Amerin Townhoe is a new gay-owned bar and rtrant om the folks behd the legendary 700 Club — if you know, you know. The Country Club the Bywater has long been an anchor of the gay scene, even if no longer pegs self as a gay bar sce the rtrant’s renovatn and new pool clothg regulatn — meang, ’s no longer optnal. A proud anchor of Bourbon Street’s “F Loop, ” Café Lafte Exile’s claim to fame is that is the olst ntuoly operatg gay bar the untry, wh the ghosts of past patrons ocsnally visg.

Good Friends is the Cheers of the New Orleans gay bar scene, where everybody lerally knows your name — if not, they will by the end of the night.

Crossg Bar, which lls self “the bt gay straight food servg bar  New Orleans, ” has been a prev host for Grrlspot dance parti as well as for regular RuPl’s Drag Race viewg parti, Sats game watch parti, and pop-ups. For as many gay and LGBTQ-iendly venu that are New Orleans, there are as few girl-only clubs. The zy Uptown gay bar is ty, but mighty wh daily drk specials, welg regulars, and entertag bartenrs.

WILL YOU BUY GAY WATER?

But several plac around the untry, they rema anchors of safety and Raff for The New York TimPublished May 28, 2021Updated May 29, 2021Stt Frankel’s favore memori of New York gay rtrants aren’t about food. Manat was so gay, had a sobriquet: rtrants, said Mr. ”But all those plac he so fondly remembers are long closed, as are Harvt, Orb’s and several others listed an article, headled “Rtrants That Roll Out the Wele Mat for Gay Ders, ” that ran this newspaper 27 years ago.

The panmic h the untry’s urban gay rtrants pecially hard, said Jt Nelson, the print of the Natnal LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

MeMe’s Der, a popular queer rtrant Brooklyn, permanently closed November, cg shutdown measur and a lack of ernment rtrants, like gay bars, are also facg cris of inty and purpose a time that is many ways more welg than the past, when gay people sought out gay rtrants bee they offered safety and acceptance that uldn’t be found elsewhere. Gay men equented plac like Orphan Andy’s, a mpy der om the same that’s still bs the Castro neighborhood of San Francis. Atlanta had Waterworks, which a 1992 newsletter for the group Black and Whe Men Together lled the cy’s “only Black-owned gay rtrant.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

And shiftg nceptns of sexualy and genr extend beyond what words like gay, lbian, male or female n acmodate. “Many of the more privileged young queer people have grown up wh cln, so they don’t feel the need to be a place where you’re sheltered om heterosexism, ” said Julie Podmore, an urban geographer at Conrdia Universy may be the se New York Cy, where gay rtrants are gog the way of dosrs (if not yet extct — Elmo and other spots are still keepg their gay fan base fed) elsewhere the untry, many gay rtrants are thrivg — as treasured lol bs, facto muny centers, refug om ntug anti-queer vlence and potential paths forward for a rtrant dtry a recent Saturday night the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washgton, Annie’s Paramount Steak Hoe was by, and was gay.

Katas says nobody her fay is gay, yet Annie’s surely is.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

That seed was planted by her great-nt Annie was beyond supportive of the gay muny and beme, for many of the rtrant’s racially diverse ders, a mother figure before her ath 2013.