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THE WAREHOE: THE GAY CLUB WHERE HOE MIC GOT S NAME
WE ARE an all-male clothg optnal bed and breakfast retreat terg to gay, bi, and straight men 21 years or olr. But e nighttime, the former factory me to life as a place where young predomantly black and predomantly gay men me to dance an otherwise heavily segregated club scene. Dis was still popular among gay and black clubs, but anti-dis movements, rooted heavily racism and homophobia, arose all across Chigo.
Although origally populated by a black, gay majory, Williams was eager to create an open, diversified space. “The Warehoe was predomantly gay, ” Williams relled. The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that.
The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world. Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St. The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic.
THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
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.