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Contents:
- THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
- BOSTON GAY SPORTS BAR — ‘HOME AWAY OM HOME’ FOR EX-MLB UMP AND A MUNY — ON THE ROP
- THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
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The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic.
BOSTON GAY SPORTS BAR — ‘HOME AWAY OM HOME’ FOR EX-MLB UMP AND A MUNY — ON THE ROP
The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur. —Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli. —Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars.
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THE BT GAY BARS LONDON
—Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic? It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria. It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood.
It brought the gay and straight muni together the ‘90s wh clever baret programmg. But perhaps most signifintly, gave the gay muny of Boston somethg sperately need: visibily. While other gay bars of the time were basements or board up, Club Cafe faced by Columb Avenue wh floor to ceilg wdows.