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INIC LOUISVILLE GAY NIGHT CLUB IS BEG MOLISHED FOR NEW HOTEL

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We're not om Louisville (we're om Nashville), and we had heard that was an excg gay club.

It felt more like a ladi club than a gay club. Lots of shriekg bachelorette parti gawkg at the drag queens and gay patrons as if we were zoo animals was the only unpleasant part about beg there.

Strippers seemed to enjoy the attentn om the ladi more than they did the attentn they received om their gay brethren.Wrten July 6, 2014This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Named One of the 60 Bt Gay Bars the World. Nearly two years after s closure, one of the state’s most well-known gay clubs is for one fal show — a timated $159, 000 worth of wreckg is unrway at the old Connectn se, 120 S.

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The documents filed wh Metro Goverment show a sleek new brick and limtone buildg wh s own parkg spac on the first and send the archiv:Louisville gay club's roots n to '70sFac of Pri::Members of the LGBTQ muny and their alli sound off om all 50 statBut even though Choice Hotels is makg a whole bunch of noise on the east end of downtown, officials are stayg quiet as far as tails go. Was home to The Downtowner, a popular gay bar, which was moved to the lotn after the origal mol of the bar on 320 Chtnut burned down unr myster circumstanc 1974.

Also was amend to reflect s history as the Bex Arts Cocktail Lounge, believed to be Louisville's first gay Comer, public rmatn officer wh the Kentucky Herage Council, nfirmed both of the amendments had been accepted to the natnal register. " A November 1952 ad the Courier-Journal enuraged rears to "relax and be gay wh Renee' at the an" and an ad two years later announced the Billy Rudolph Tr would be playg at the lounge.

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More:'Barbarella' dance club slated for prime Whiskey Row spotBex Arts also found self alongsi the Plantatn Room the Kentucky Hotel and Gordon's as part of a tr of bars, which ma up a "circu for gay men makg the rounds, " acrdg to the historic narrative. Fosl intifi the program as "one of the most gay/lbian iendly workplac Louisville. The DowntownerOutlivg Bex Arts by years, The Downtowner me to tablish self as a well-known and highly popular gatherg spot for gays and lbians Louisville.

In an terview wh Fosl, Reva Deverex, a cross-drsg performer who appeared regularly  the late 1970s at The Downtowner, said gay bars provid a sort of "home and fay" unable to be found non-gay spac.

LGBT lears the early 1980s formed GLUE, Gays and Lbians Uned for Equaly, the basement of The Downtowner.

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