What started as a drag bnch has now transformed to a fully-fledged — and much need — gay bar. In a super Republin unty.
Contents:
- A NEW GAY BAR IS ABOUT TO OPEN… A MOST UNLIKELY OH ZIP
- LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN
- GAY WASHGTON DC
- RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD
- GAY LISBON
A NEW GAY BAR IS ABOUT TO OPEN… A MOST UNLIKELY OH ZIP
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Atlas Social ClubGay nightlife honcho Josh Wood teamed up wh veterans of Drom, Eastern Bloc and Splash to brg you this speakeasy-like homo hnt nveniently loted the middle of Hell's Kchen's thrivg gay strip.Bt gay clubs NYCAn email you’ll actually loveGet to a relatnship wh our newsletter. The Olive Tree BellefontaeAfter hostg their first drag show Febary, The Olive Tree has sce received s liquor license, makg the first ever gay bar Bellefontae. “And then we applied for a liquor license and now we’re a gay bar.
“I started gettg msag like, ‘Why do have to be a gay bar? Why do you have to e the word ‘gay?
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Why wouldn’t this be a gay bar? Clubs and bars specifilly labeled as “gay bars” are important safe spac wh the LGBTQ+ muny. From where The Olive Tree ss Bellefontae, the clost gay bar is about 30 away Lima.
Most Oh gay bars are general are bigger ci, makg them harr to accs for those small towns or more ral muni. “Usg the word ‘gay’ pav the path to a brighter and clive future for generatns to e, ” Berry said.
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“Sce we did the first drag show, I learned very quickly that now I’m an tor and have to help stigmatize everythg bee there’s a lot of homophobia around here and Oh general. I thk tak people to meet a iendly, nice gay person to get rid of all the hate and jt happens to be that there aren’t a lot [of out LGBTQ+ people] my muny. Wh the new gay bar rebrand, The Olive Tree will be hostg a grand reopeng event on Saturday, October 15 to celebrate the venue’s new era.
“As a kid, if I would have had someone that was openly proud and ma gay beg the olt thg on the pla that would’ve pletely changed my life, ” he said.
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).