Lipstick Lounge - Gay Bar East End

Contents:

• NASHVILLE’S GAY AND LBIAN NIGHTLIFE
• MOVG TO LGBT NASHVILLE, TENNSEE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

NASHVILLE’S GAY AND LBIAN NIGHTLIFE

And yet queer culture here is more vibrant than Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors, wh a patchwork of gay bars, clubs, and f around town and a history datg back nearly a century. The cy’s first two rerd gay bars — the Jungle and Juana’s — opened Downtown Nashville the 1950s, where they served as havens for LGBTQ+ Nashvillians until the early 1980s. If Nashville’s gay bars were Zodiac signs, Play would be a Gemi: the buildg nnects two spac rooms that feel like pletely different bars.

Tribe is a gulp-and-gab gay bar where groups gather to chat on the three-tiered outdoor ck, shoot rounds of pool, or pregame before htg Play’s dance floor, nveniently loted next door.

Trax don’t look like anythg special: ’s hoed a dgy brick buildg on Bian Paige Way (named for the late lol drag in and HIV/AIDS activist) and far removed om the cy’s other gay bars. This is also the gay go-to for last-ll libatns.

MOVG TO LGBT NASHVILLE, TENNSEE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

If you’re lookg for a morng pick-me-up near Broadway’s neon lights, head to this gay-owned bakery and ffee shop n by Nashville native David Andrews. Most of Nashville’s gay bars don’t pick up steam until the weekend, but there are plenty of queer-iendly tablishments worth checkg out while wag for the fun to beg. For a s-down dner or boozy bnch, try the Mockgbird, a gay-owned rtrant dishg global plat fed wh Nashville style.

Then there’s Whe Limozeen, a Dolly Parton-themed bar atop the Graduate Hotel, where you n sip uy cktails, admire the pretty--pk r, and snap pictur ont of a larger-than-life chicken-wire sculpture of the gay in herself. Popularly known as the pal cy of untry mic, the cy is a shg liberal buckle on the tired Bible Belt, and is home to a peculiar mix of aspirg artists and micians, rhtone wboys, closeted policians, and down-and-dirty gay nightlife. Y, jt like Philalphia, San Diego, Portland, and other fabuloly gay US ci, there is also an engaged LGBT scene here (if you know where to look), and this is somethg a gay realtor Nashville n help you navigate as you fd your new perfect home here.

An clive blue dot on an otherwise ep red map, people Gay Nashville are by and large tryg to be acceptg, but the Christian qutn still up. There are even many explicly gay-iendly church Nashville. Gay acceptance and the culture around Nashville is plited, and we don’t want to over-simplify anythg…but you should nsir this ‘gay round-table’ discsn om out untry artists Nashville about their experienc.